2024 Annual Lunacy Distance Challenge

[lazybloke]

Another one today, for 27 qualifying rides.
Target was originally 60km but I've already stretched to 94km, so today's 84 km doesn't make a difference.

13) 21/06/2024-22/06/2024: 210.5km (130.85 miles): London > Coulsdon > Smallfield > Ardingly > Ditchling Beacon > Brighton > Brighton Marina breakfast > Shoreham > Steyning > Ashurst > Dial Post > West Grinstead > Southwater > Copsale > Horsham > Rowhook > Forest Green > Coldharbour > Dorking > Home
23) 03/08/24 : 141 km : Home > Gatwick > Blindley Heath > Godstone > Gatton > Banstead > Hook > Cobham > Home
(Link to your ride today)
9) 24/05/2024: 139km (86.51 miles): to Leatherhead Station, <train>, Friday Night Ride to the Coast: London South Bank > Eltham > Swanley > Higham > Strood > Whitstable > Canterbury station, <train>, ride home.
26) 20/09/2024: 126.3km (78.5 miles) : Waterloo/Blackfriars/Westminster/National Theatre, Friday Night Ride to the Coast: National Theatre > Stratford > Chelmsford > Terling > Maldon, Escape to trains: Maldon > Heybridge > Wickham > Witham, Across London: Liverpool St > Waterloo
3) 20/04/2024 : 126km : Home > rail station. Vauxhall station > Peckam > Walworth > London South Bank > Kennington > Woodmansterne > Turners Hill > Lower Beeding > Shoreham-by-Sea > Southwick station. Dorking station > home. (ride description in wrong thread!)
24) 11/08/2024: 119.5km : Tour of the Hills audax - repeated ascents of the North Downs and Greensand Ridge (your ride today).
15) 04/07/2024: 108 km : Caen > Liseux > Honfleur
5) 5/5/2024 : 108km : Isle of Wight randonnee: Fishguard > Fishguard (clockwise) via Pondwell, Bembridge, Alverstone, Sandford, Wroxall, Whitwell, Niton, Freshwater, Yarmouth, Newbridge, Newtown, Cowes and Wootton (your ride today)
11) 09/06/2024 : 105 km : Home > Warnham > Dunsfold > Bramley > Cobham > home (your ride today)
16) 02/07/2024 : 103 km : Avranches > Bayeux
22) 31/07/2024: 100.5 km : East Grinstead - GRoombridge East Grinstead, followed by Home - Dorking - Home (circuitously!)
>>Link to my ride today<<
1) 24/04/24: 97 km : Dial Post > Winterfold Forest > Rusper > Dial Post. (link to your ride today)
14) 29/06/24: 94 km : Jersey : St Helier - Gorey - Saint John - Le Braye - St Brelade - St Aubin - St Lawrence - St Helier
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10) 02/06/2024: 92.6 km: Guildford > Shalford; Downslink to Partridge Green > Lower Beeding > Colgate > Rusper > Dorking > Home.
17) 06/07/2024: 91.74km : Fecamp > Dieppe > Arques-la-Bataille
18) 05/07/2024: 89 km: Honfleur > Le Havre > Etretat > Fecamp > Restaurant > Hotel
7) 12/05/24 : 86 km : Home > Pixham > Shellwood Cross > Rusper > Horsham > Doomsday Green (what a cracking name!) > Mannings Heath > Buchan Hill Forest > Bewbush (what a ghastly name!) > Three Bridge <TRAIN SECTION> Redhill > Reigate > PIxham > Home. (your ride today)
27) 10/12/2024: 84 km: Dial Post - Coolham - Broadbridge Heath - Warnham - Christ's Hospital - Slinfold - Rudgwick - Morgan's Green - Adversane - Billingshurst - Spear Hill - Boomers Corner - Dial Post (link to your ride today)
2) 13/04/2024 : 81 km (50.3 miles) : Home - Newdigate - Horsham - Nutbourne - North Stoke - home, not including the train journey part. (link to your ride today).
25) 15/09/2024 : 80.58 km ( 50 miles) : Rye > Dungeness > Dymchurch > Appledore > Rye
19) 01/07/2024: 76.4 km : St Malo > Mont St Michel > Avranches
20) 03/07/2024: 73.28km : Bayeux > Port en Bessin > Longues sur Mer > Arromanches-les-Bains > Ver-sur-Mer > Caen
8) 19/05/2024: 71.5 km (43.81 miles): Loop via Woking > Tongham > Puttenham > Guildford
21) 30/06/2024: 67.81 km : St-Malo > La Ville-es-Nonais > Plouer-sur-Rance > Dinard > St-Malo
4) 30/4/24: 66.7 km (41.5 miles) : Home > Peasmarsh > Bramley > Munstead > "beautiful rural lanes section" > "ghastly bridlepath horror" > Grafham > Wonersh > Chilworth > home (Link to veloviewer stupidity)
6) 09/05/24 : 65 km : Home > Leatherhead > Langley Vale > Walton on the Hill > Mogador > Reigate > Leigh > (was heading further afield but a slow puncture made me re-evaluate) > Pixham > Box Hill > Home (link to your ride today)
12) 19/06/24 : 63 km : Home > Ranmore > Dorking > Compton > Bramley > Shere > Effingham > Home (your ride today)

 

[bluenotebob]

Target distance – 76km (stretch distance 85.4km)

Rides done so far: 19 (completed)


11. 27th June 2024 – 104.59km two local loops + a Brignac, la Ville Jallu, Kerminy loop + Mauron/la Ville Rehel (V3)
15. 5th August 2024 – 102.21km two local loops, a Cotinaie/Corbinais/Evriguet loop + Mauron/le Clos Hazel (V3)
2. 19th February 2024 – 101.47km Mauron/Molac/Pleucadeuc (V3)
9. 22nd June 2024 – 93.49km two local loops + Ménéac, Goméné, Trinité, Mohon + Guilliers

19. 20th December 2024 – 92.76km Bois-de-la-Roche, Ploërmel, Malestroit (gare), Pleucadeuc (gare), off the V3 and onto the D149, Molac, la Muterne, la Pierre Longue, Pleucadeuc (town), Pleucadeuc (gare), back on the V3, Malestroit (gare), Ploërmel, Bois-de-la-Roche

16. 4th October 2024 – 92.23km Mauron/Pleucadeuc (V3)
18. 4th December 2024 – 91.49km Bois-de-la-Roche/Pleucadeuc/Molac
1. 29th January 2024 – 91.43km Mauron/Pleucadeuc (V3)
13. 24th July 2024 – 91.28km two local loops, a Raserais/Villot/Brignac loop + Mauron/Lézonnet (V3)
5. 24th March 2024 – 90.66km Mauron/Pleucadeuc (V3)
6. 29th April 2024 – 88.54km Mauron, Foveno, la Tayée, Mauron
14. 27th July 2024 – 87.49km three local loops, a Brignac/Corbinais/Kerminy loop + Mauron/Loyat (V3)
17. 14th October 2024 – 87.21km Cadoret/St Caradec (NtB, V8, VAB)

Relegated:

10. 24th June 2024 – 86.28km two short local loops + Mauron/ Malestroit (V3)
3. 6th March 2024 – 86.26km local SBdM/Plaisance loop + Mauron/le Roc St André (V3)
7. 24th May 2024 – 86.19km Cadoret East/Cadoret West
8. 8th June 2024 – 86.07km two local loops + Mauron/Chapelle Caro (V3)
12. 17th July 2024 – 82.73km three local loops + Mauron, Ploërmel, Mauron
4. 16th March 2024 – 78.70km local SBdM/Plaisance loop + Mauron/le Pont de Bagotais (V3)

Total points in this challenge: 40

 

[lazybloke]

Another one today, for 28 qualifying rides.
Target was originally 60km but I've already stretched to 94km, so today's 72 km doesn't make a difference.
30/12/24 : 72 km : Dunsfold, Plaistow, Shillinglee, Plaistow, Ifold, Wisborough Green(ish), Kirdford, Mackerel's Common, Balls Cross, Northchapel, Ansteadbrook, Chiddingfold, HighStreet Green, Dunsfold
(your ride today)