FrothNinja
Guru
Ta, my weeks are all out of whack - I shall amend. Suspect it is wishful thinking trying to avoid ageing.
Three 30-minute rides each week of the year Challenge 2025 [NB Starts 30/12/24!]
- Thread starter ColinJ
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Ta, my weeks are all out of whack - I shall amend. Suspect it is wishful thinking trying to avoid ageing.
bluenotebob
Guru
- Location
- central Brittany, France
Week 43: 7 local rides over 30 mins; distance cycled 137.56km (829m of Ascent)
Week 1(2025) to week 43: total distance cycled 9654.75km
It’s that time of year again …
Week 1(2025) to week 43: total distance cycled 9654.75km
It’s that time of year again …
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Grotty weather put me off riding early in the week so I was left with doing my 3 qualifying rides on Fri, Sat & Sun.
Fri & Sat were not really much better than the days that I had wimped out on so I did shortish rides on those days.
Sat was really good though so I said "yes please" when a pal invited me to join him for one of our local favourite routes - the 'extended Trawden loop'. We made a last minute change though when we saw the wind direction, deciding to ride it clockwise instead of our usual preference of anti-clockwise. It made a nice change to do it that way, and the forecast was spot on - a chilly northerly wind, but beautifully sunny conditions. It's a tough loop with around 1,350 m of ascent crammed into the 65 km. We both really enjoyed it.
Week 43: 3 qualifying rides... 111.4 km, in 6.35 h.
Total qualifying rides: 152. Distance to date: 5,019.6 km (vs 4,730 km; 43 x weekly target of 110 km). Time to date: 292.80 h (vs 301 h; 43 x weekly target of 7 h). 1 week with 1 ride short.
Ride 1 (Fri): 18.9 km. ELLL. 0.95 h.
Ride 2 (Sat): 65.8 km. C/W Trawden loop (Tod, SB, OT, Worsthorne, Haggate, Trawden, Laneshaw Bridge, Oakworth, Haworth,Oxen hope Oxenhope!, HB, Tod. 4.00 h.
Ride 3 (Sun): 26.7 km. Tod, 2 local hills, then... HB turning circle, UT, Tod, Knowlwood Rd climb, Wn, Old Toll House, UT, Wn, Tod. 1.40 h.
Rides #1-2 on CAAD5; ride #3 on 6-er.
Abbreviated local place names (now sorted alphabetically):
Fri & Sat were not really much better than the days that I had wimped out on so I did shortish rides on those days.
Sat was really good though so I said "yes please" when a pal invited me to join him for one of our local favourite routes - the 'extended Trawden loop'. We made a last minute change though when we saw the wind direction, deciding to ride it clockwise instead of our usual preference of anti-clockwise. It made a nice change to do it that way, and the forecast was spot on - a chilly northerly wind, but beautifully sunny conditions. It's a tough loop with around 1,350 m of ascent crammed into the 65 km. We both really enjoyed it.
Week 43: 3 qualifying rides... 111.4 km, in 6.35 h.
Total qualifying rides: 152. Distance to date: 5,019.6 km (vs 4,730 km; 43 x weekly target of 110 km). Time to date: 292.80 h (vs 301 h; 43 x weekly target of 7 h). 1 week with 1 ride short.
Ride 1 (Fri): 18.9 km. ELLL. 0.95 h.
Ride 2 (Sat): 65.8 km. C/W Trawden loop (Tod, SB, OT, Worsthorne, Haggate, Trawden, Laneshaw Bridge, Oakworth, Haworth,
Ride 3 (Sun): 26.7 km. Tod, 2 local hills, then... HB turning circle, UT, Tod, Knowlwood Rd climb, Wn, Old Toll House, UT, Wn, Tod. 1.40 h.
Rides #1-2 on CAAD5; ride #3 on 6-er.
Abbreviated local place names (now sorted alphabetically):
- BE = Blackstone Edge, BH = Blackshaw Head, Bp = Bacup, By = Burnley
- Ce = Cornholme, Cgr = Cliviger, Ck = Calderbrook, Cn = Colden, CP = Crown Point, Cr = Caldermoor, CSR=Cross Stone Rd, CV = Cragg Vale
- ELLL = Extended Lumpy Local Loop
- GR = Great Rock
- HB = Hebden Bridge, HC = Holme Chapel, HG = Hubberton Green, Hl = Heptonstall, HP = Harvellin Park
- JB = Jack Bridge
- LC = Long Causeway, Lh = Littleborough, LLL = Lumpy Local Loop, Ls = Lumbutts
- MR = Manchester, Ms = Mankinholes
- OT = Over Town
- Ph = Portsmouth
- Re = Rochdale, Royd = Mytholmroyd
- SB = Sowerby Bridge, SBm = Southward Bottom, Sd = Sharneyford, Sl = Sourhall, St = Summit
- Tod = Todmorden
- UT = u-turn
- WM = Walk Mill, Wn = Walsden
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FrothNinja
Guru
Nice to come back to after a wet ride
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I just spotted what auto-correct had made of the details of my ride on Saturday... I definitely was not looking forward to encountering large animals en route! 
