Three 30-minute rides each week of the year Challenge 2023

[bluenotebob]

That should be the 1st to the 7th (for Sun to Sat), or the 2nd to the 8th (for Mon to Sun)! I'm working on the basis of a Mon to Sun week.

Welcome to the challenge, Colin.

Week 1 in 2023 is 8 days, thereafter it'll be a 7 day week - Monday to Sunday. All explained in the opening post of this thread.

Yes - try and report 'moving time' for any of your short rides (I don't think it really matters on longer rides, ie if you're out for a few hours).

Is your mountain bike out of action? I'd envisaged you doing some canal towpath rides on your MTB while re-building your cycling stamina.

 

[ColinJ]

Week 1 in 2023 is 8 days, thereafter it'll be a 7 day week - Monday to Sunday. All explained in the opening post of this thread.

Oops, sorry - I read it too quickly and missed that!

Is your mountain bike out of action? I'd envisaged you doing some canal towpath rides on your MTB while re-building your cycling stamina.

Actually, it IS, and has been for over 3 years! So has my CAADX CX bike.

Covid scuppered various plans for the bikes, but it is now time to fix them. I have an offroad forum ride planned for this spring so I need to get at least one working again ASAP.

I have fixed significant problems on my other 4 bikes so I haven't been a total skiver!

 

[FrothNinja]

W1R1 - Folda 45 mins - Clarion run. Piddled down for the last 20 minutes.
W1R2 - Mares 50 mins - Local gravel long loop. Route has almost doubled in length since a couple of new sections of greenway were opened very recently. Got onto the overall leader boards for the new segments - an advantage of them only been ridden 50 odd times. Top 3 on one of the hidden segments.
W1R3 - Centurion 37 mins - Local Burnley miles, all in the rain.
W1R4 - Centurion 33 mins - Local Burnley miles, all in the rain.
W1R5 - Mares 47 mins - Local gravel long loop.
W1R6 - Hybrid 56 mins - Colne (LBS) return. Heavy sticky rain and dark on the return leg. Almost killed by a Delta car - camera was rolling.
W1R7 - Hybrid 46 mins - Local road triangle. Abbreviated the ride due to rain that dampened me for the last 15 mins as the light faded - set a PB trying to outrun it.
W1R8 - Hybrid 1hourish - Clarion run. It went weewee down all the way home.

 

[annedonnelly]

Well, if we're still on week 1 today, I've managed a second ride. Just to the bottle bank and then pootling around the cyclepaths locally. About 35 minutes & 6.5 miles.

 

[bluenotebob]

Well, if we're still on week 1 today, I've managed a second ride.

Can you squeeze in another 30 minute ride today (before midnight) to stay in the challenge?

Good luck !

 

[annedonnelly]

Can you squeeze in another 30 minute ride today (before midnight) to stay in the challenge?

Good luck !

Not a chance. It's hard enough going out once these days.

 

[Saluki]

Checking in for week 1.
01/01 was my metric half challenge ride so didn’t count that.
Ride 1. 03/01. Short local loop to encompass collecting a prescription from the docs then coming back the pretty route. 7.65 miles. 39:23
Ride 2. 06/01. Post ride decompress on National Numpty Day 6.62 miles. 34:49
Ride 3. 08/01. Short ‘pre work’ loop before the hail storm. 11.4 miles. 53.21

Only short rides but it’s been a bit of a week. All on my beloved Genesis Croix de Fer. Trying to fit in Joe Wicks workouts, work, appointments and all sorts in there.

 

[bluenotebob]

Checking in for week 1.

Great !

Welcome to this year's challenge.

There's no reason why you shouldn't include your half metric century rides in your weekly reports. But it's up you.

Good luck with Week 2 (I think it's going to be wet and windy)

 

[bluenotebob]

It's hard enough going out once these days.

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope cycling gets easier for you as the year progresses.

Please keep posting your rides on here. Perhaps you could do what @ColinJ did in his Week 1 post above and include a count of 'successful weeks' ?

 

[Alex321]

I'd be very surprised if I manage all 52 weeks, with a combination of weather and trips away without the bike, but let's see how it goes.

W1 R1 01/01/23 1H 16m, 18.8 miles Boardman Hybrid bike. Loop through Ewenny, back the short way after Colwinston
W1 R2 06/01/23 1H 6m, 17.01 miles. Boardman hybrid. Loop through Llancarfan - St Athan etc.
W1 R3 07/01/23 52m 12.81 miles. Back on the Cube road bike. Loop round Hensol, Tredodridge, Warren Mill Farm.
W1 R4 08/01/23 1H 25m. 19.66 miles. Cube. Similar loop to R1, but the longer way home via Llanmihangel.

 

[Gibbo9]

Week 1 report:
4 qualifying rides last week totaling around 140km and 5.5 hours. Sadly I failed to record a ride whilst in the Philippines, no bikes for hire on Boracay island.

W1 R1 04/01 29.54km, 1h 15m, first ride of the year. Evening ride as it rained all day. Was nice when I eventually got out though.
W1 R2 05/01 25.84km, 1h 09m, a very damp morning but not raining so I just had to dodge puddles.
W1 R3 06/01 18.26km, 49 mins. Had to wait all day for the drizzle to stop, another evening ride.

 

[Houthakker]

Hi, I would love to join in this challenge as it may motivate me to get out on the bike on days when I might otherwise stay in the warm, and am looking to improve my fitness!
W1R1 01/01 1hr 7 mins, 10.1 miles. first ride of the year, just need to keep it up now.
W1R2 03/01 1 hr 4 mins 10.9 miles.
W1R3 06/01 1hr 54 min 19.6 miles.
All done on the mountain bike, but mostly on road.

 

[bluenotebob]

I'd be very surprised if I manage all 52 weeks, with a combination of weather and trips away without the bike, but let's see how it goes

Welcome to the challenge !

It does seem daunting at the beginning but you'll get into a rhythm and it also gets easier when the evenings become lighter.

 

[figbat]

I will almost certainly not manage all 52 weeks - I have a week in Iceland coming up plus plans for holidays later in the year. I can take my bike with me for the summer hols (caravan) but I won't be cycling in Iceland (more's the pity). However, I have started the challenge as you never know what will happen next.

 

[bluenotebob]

I would love to join in this challenge as it may motivate me to get out on the bike on days when I might otherwise stay in the warm, and am looking to improve my fitness!

Welcome to the challenge !

Yes - I found that last year ... this challenge pushed me outside into the cold and wet when in previous years I'd probably have given it a miss... and after a while, it became 'normal' to go out most days, or even every day of the week.