vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
30 x Audaxes including a 300km one.
Cycling objectives for 2009
- Thread starter Will1985
- Start date
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Abitrary said:
i'm not sure yet. the idea is in the early stages and we know we know which postcode we are going from but we are not sure which office we are cycling to yet. It will probably be as the crow flies but it might be exact road mileage plus straight line across the atlantic. if i let you know later will you work it out for me?
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Will1985
Über Member
- Location
- South Norfolk
You used to be able to do it on Google Maps and it told you to swim across the Atlantic Ocean, but sadly it doesn't do that anymore.
Cathryn
Legendary Member
- Location
- Marlborough, Wiltshire
Ventoux. May. Bring it on.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
Last yr I clocked up 1,180 miles. This year I'm on 2,185... so I'd like to add to that. 
Young Un
New Member
- Location
- Worcestershire
To be able to ride both the saturday and the sunday club runs in one weekend. (only do teh satuday one at the moment)
To start track racing at halesowen
To enter a few club 10mile TT
To do arund 300-400 miles a month
Steve
To start track racing at halesowen
To enter a few club 10mile TT
To do arund 300-400 miles a month
Steve
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
buggi said:
If you know the lattitude and longitude of the the two points then you can calculate the distance as a an arc of the great circle that joins the two points on assummed to be sperical surface of the earth - vague memories of doing 3d trig on a sphere at O-level are surfacing.
The UK postoffice has the latitude and longitude of every single postcode in the UK but the info is only available if you purchase it and I suspect that you'd have to buy the whole shooting match to get your one post code/lattitude.
Have a look here for a rudimentary converter:
http://www.cycle-route.com/Postcode-Latitude-Longitude-Conversion.html
The next one might do US conversions too.
http://www.nearby.org.uk/coord.cgi?p=LS6+4PR
Definition of great circle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_circle
Calculating the minimum distance on the great circle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-circle_distance
Hope that helps.
Kirstie
Über Member
I've done 3,500 miles this year.
Next year, after getting my asthma under control, i would like to:
ride some 200k audaxes
become a better climber
get some serious commuting miles in
go touring somewhere hot and mountainous
still be able to downhill (off road) well
Next year, after getting my asthma under control, i would like to:
ride some 200k audaxes
become a better climber
get some serious commuting miles in
go touring somewhere hot and mountainous
still be able to downhill (off road) well
Chuffy
Veteran
- Location
- On the banks of the Exe
5,000 miles for the year
Start audaxing again
Get a trailer and do more shopping by bike
Surpass this years catering efforts for the Exmouth Exodus
Perhaps have a stab at a 300k ride...
Start audaxing again
Get a trailer and do more shopping by bike
Surpass this years catering efforts for the Exmouth Exodus
Perhaps have a stab at a 300k ride...
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Well, since you asked... 
(I was going to write this lot down anyway and pin the list to my wall to focus my thoughts on 2009).
I need to make a big effort to lose weight and sort out my back/neck/core problems, then...
After a lazy December, ease back into riding in January.
February - ride the Mini North-west Passage, possibly riding to and from the event as well (without it hurting this time!).
Something decent in March. I have family business in the midlands then, so I might try a single-speed circuit of the countryside surrounding round Coventry. I haven't worked out the details yet.
April - ride Spring Into the Dales (without it hurting this time!).
April - a week after SITD, ride the 'Kirklees Sportive' (or whatever it is called in 2009), including riding to and from the event (without it hurting this time!).
May - I quite fancy doing the Cotswold Challenge from Meriden, which is only a few miles from my mother's house. I've only ridden about a 10 mile radius of Coventry and it would be nice to see some parts of England I haven't been to before.
June - the Red Rose Ride as a last training ride for...
June - The 157 mile, very hilly Cycle Chat West Yorkshire Cycle Route Challenge! We won't be trying to break any speed records, just to get us all round in one piece having enjoyed it, and still in daylight!
July - ride from Hebden Bridge to Coventry via Holme Moss, Snake Pass and lots of other hills. Ride back a week later. I did it in 2007, and fancy doing it faster. Last time, I carried too much with me (panniers on bike via Strines, Ewden Bank on the way back was 'testing'
).
August - If I can get a lift there and back - ride the full Pendle Pedal flat out (website not updated yet for 2009). I've done the full route twice before and been in agony with a bad back, trailing in about 190th out of 196 finishers. I'd like to get round without it hurting and be in the first half of the riders to finish. If I can't get a lift but the weather is good and I feel fit, ride there and back as well, but not bust a gut on the main ride. Alternatively, ride to and from the event, do the shorter route and just enjoy it.
September - if I could get a lift there, I'd like to do the Manchester 100 again and try and do it in 5 hours (excluding the 30 minute lunch stop).
September - If I can get a lift, I'd like to do the Fleet Moss 212 again. It's a beautiful route but my back caused problems for me when I rode it in 2006.
October - I'd like to do Season of Mists again (without it hurting this time!).
November - if the weather is okay, try and get at least one long ride in.
December - I'll try actually riding my bike next time! It's beginning to look as though I won't get a ride in this month...
Long-term objectives:
20 minutes for the Cragg Vale climb. If I ever manage that, I would carry on to complete the 20.3 mile loop through Littleborough, Todmorden, Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd and try and break the hour for it. It wouldn't be bad for a loop with about 1,200 ft of climbing.
20 minutes for the climb from Hebden Bridge to Cock Hill on Oxenhope Moor. If I ever manage that, I would carry on to complete the 28.5 mile loop through Oxenhope, Stanbury, Laneshaw Bridge, Trawden, Thursden, Widdop, Slack and back to HB. I'd try and break the 2 hours for that loop which has nearly 4,000 ft of climbing. My mate did it a few times so I reckon I could too if I worked at it.
I'd like to so a flattish '200' in 8 hours and a hilly '200' in 9 (I've managed 10 hours when not fully fit so that is definitely doable for me).
Let's hope that we get a decent summer in the UK in 2009!
(I was going to write this lot down anyway and pin the list to my wall to focus my thoughts on 2009).I need to make a big effort to lose weight and sort out my back/neck/core problems, then...
After a lazy December, ease back into riding in January.
February - ride the Mini North-west Passage, possibly riding to and from the event as well (without it hurting this time!).
Something decent in March. I have family business in the midlands then, so I might try a single-speed circuit of the countryside surrounding round Coventry. I haven't worked out the details yet.
April - ride Spring Into the Dales (without it hurting this time!).
April - a week after SITD, ride the 'Kirklees Sportive' (or whatever it is called in 2009), including riding to and from the event (without it hurting this time!).
May - I quite fancy doing the Cotswold Challenge from Meriden, which is only a few miles from my mother's house. I've only ridden about a 10 mile radius of Coventry and it would be nice to see some parts of England I haven't been to before.
June - the Red Rose Ride as a last training ride for...
June - The 157 mile, very hilly Cycle Chat West Yorkshire Cycle Route Challenge! We won't be trying to break any speed records, just to get us all round in one piece having enjoyed it, and still in daylight!
July - ride from Hebden Bridge to Coventry via Holme Moss, Snake Pass and lots of other hills. Ride back a week later. I did it in 2007, and fancy doing it faster. Last time, I carried too much with me (panniers on bike via Strines, Ewden Bank on the way back was 'testing'
).August - If I can get a lift there and back - ride the full Pendle Pedal flat out (website not updated yet for 2009). I've done the full route twice before and been in agony with a bad back, trailing in about 190th out of 196 finishers. I'd like to get round without it hurting and be in the first half of the riders to finish. If I can't get a lift but the weather is good and I feel fit, ride there and back as well, but not bust a gut on the main ride. Alternatively, ride to and from the event, do the shorter route and just enjoy it.
September - if I could get a lift there, I'd like to do the Manchester 100 again and try and do it in 5 hours (excluding the 30 minute lunch stop).
September - If I can get a lift, I'd like to do the Fleet Moss 212 again. It's a beautiful route but my back caused problems for me when I rode it in 2006.
October - I'd like to do Season of Mists again (without it hurting this time!).
November - if the weather is okay, try and get at least one long ride in.
December - I'll try actually riding my bike next time! It's beginning to look as though I won't get a ride in this month...
Long-term objectives:
20 minutes for the Cragg Vale climb. If I ever manage that, I would carry on to complete the 20.3 mile loop through Littleborough, Todmorden, Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd and try and break the hour for it. It wouldn't be bad for a loop with about 1,200 ft of climbing.
20 minutes for the climb from Hebden Bridge to Cock Hill on Oxenhope Moor. If I ever manage that, I would carry on to complete the 28.5 mile loop through Oxenhope, Stanbury, Laneshaw Bridge, Trawden, Thursden, Widdop, Slack and back to HB. I'd try and break the 2 hours for that loop which has nearly 4,000 ft of climbing. My mate did it a few times so I reckon I could too if I worked at it.
I'd like to so a flattish '200' in 8 hours and a hilly '200' in 9 (I've managed 10 hours when not fully fit so that is definitely doable for me).
Let's hope that we get a decent summer in the UK in 2009!
