Your greatest cycling achievement

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GuyBoden

Guru
Location
Warrington
210 miles in day, Warrington to Cardigan at the tender age of 20, when I was slim, very fit and very fast. My uncle was a triple National champion medal winner, so it must be in the genes.

Nowadays, a very slow, flat 100 miles in a day is a bit too much in my old age, even on a nice summer's day.:sad:
 

gbb

Legendary Member
Location
Peterborough
As a preferred solo rider I never gained from group rides but managing 50 mile rides at 18 mph plus average was going some (imho)
Maximum ride was 84 miles I think, virtually non stop.
Regularly cycling 6k miles a year for a few years.
Being the fittest 50 year old ( at that time) at work by far, fitter than many of my you get colleagues.
 

snorri

Legendary Member
My greatest achievement at the time was completing a LE-JOG, completion of which surprised me but indicated that I had the ability to take on more challenging tours in the future.
I will forever be grateful to the hills of Cornwall that became so tedious that my Cornwall tour morphed into a LEJOG:smile:.
 
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Lilliburlero

Pro sandbagger
Location
South Derbyshire
52 imperial century rides in 2018, for the average of one per week. Just wanted something nice for the vicar to say about me at my funeral :rolleyes:. I set out to do 1 per month for the CC imperial century challenge, but things got a little out of hand :laugh:. Got lucky with the weather last year though, doubt i`d have been anywhere near that if i`d have had a go at it this year.
 

DCLane

Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
London-Edinburgh-London in 2017 in under 100 hours despite being badly injured before the start, under doctor's orders not to ride ( :tongue: ) having damaged my RH achilles and what turned out to be internal bleeding and a split IT band on the right as well.
 

Twilkes

Guru
A very naive self-supported JogLe without any notable incident, when the longest I'd ever cycled in one go was about 30 miles.

or

Riding a monkey bike pissed-up at high speed in circles around a campfire in the Perthshire farm courtyard of a children's holiday centre without smashing my skull into the outbuilding walls.
 
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