How does anyone actually do a 200 Km ride in one day ??

[Ian H]

I do try to make the events I organise as simple as possible. No info controls, and a minimum of controls in total. After all, it's about riding your bike, not answering questions. So, just the minimum to prove you've ridden the distance.

 

[biggs682]

In my early days, the Sunday Club runs used to be all day rides, averaging about 90 miles

Same here local ctc "fast" run use to be away 9.30 am and back by 5pm and usually cover anywhere between 60 and 110 miles oh to be a teenager again .

Fast forward to me in my 50's and like @Dave7 gradually building up the miles slowly and looking forward to doing a 50 mile watch the sun rise ride in a couple of weeks time , my amazement is where do people find the time to be out all day on their bikes every weekend if they work like i do

 

[Racing roadkill]

Same here local ctc "fast" run use to be away 9.30 am and back by 5pm and usually cover anywhere between 60 and 110 miles oh to be a teenager again .

Fast forward to me in my 50's and like @Dave7 gradually building up the miles slowly and looking forward to doing a 50 mile watch the sun rise ride in a couple of weeks time , my amazement is where do people find the time to be out all day on their bikes every weekend if they work like i do

You make time. I work 12 hour shifts during the week. I often find myself questioning the sanity of doing all day rides at the weekends. But hey, I'd only be ruining my health / bank balance, if I wasn't out riding.

 

[ianrauk]

my amazement is where do people find the time to be out all day on their bikes every weekend if they work like i do

There's 2 days in a weekend.
Saturday for me is family stuff, Sunday is bike ride day. Though I do usually have 1 Sunday a month not riding.

 

[mark st1]

There's 2 days in a weekend.
Saturday for me is family stuff, Sunday is bike ride day. Though I do usually have 1 Sunday a month not riding.

This ^^
Saturday is taking son no 3 to football gardening any shopping that needs doing helping tidy up and having a takeaway for dinner. Sunday is parole day where I can do as I wish.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I have to say that scheduling has been much more complicated this year with my imperial century a month attempt. A metric ton can be done and dusted in the morning pretty much (if I get up early enough) but an imperial is more or less much an all day job.

 

[ianrauk]

I have to say that scheduling has been much more complicated this year with my imperial century a month attempt. A metric ton can be done and dusted in the morning pretty much (if I get up early enough) but an imperial is more or less much an all day job.

Get out of bed earlier Squire. Can quite easily be back home early afternoon that way.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Get out of bed earlier Squire. Can quite easily be back home early afternoon that way.

Not necessarily at my pace!

Mind you, now the FNRttC season has started I can squeeze my imperial 100's in on a Saturday morning. With a 100k head start before brekkie I can be back home early afternoon.

 

[ianrauk]

Not necessarily at my pace!

Mind you, now the FNRttC season has started I can squeeze my imperial 100's in on a Saturday morning. With a 100k head start before brekkie I can be back home early afternoon.

Yes that's always a good call that.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Get out of bed earlier Squire. Can quite easily be back home early afternoon that way.

This, I try and leave the house for 05:30, I'm usually home around 1 o'clock for an 100 miler.

 

[jefmcg]

I'll never say never, but probably won't. I leave the house here and ride for miles, and track my rides with garmin or whatever for my own satisfaction and I don't need to get a receipt for stuff I buy in the shops.

Obviously proving you have done a ride is more of a faff than just riding it, unless it's around a track or fixed course.

I'm curious, can you think of a simpler way of doing this, assuming only 20th century technology?

 

[biggs682]

You make time. I work 12 hour shifts during the week. I often find myself questioning the sanity of doing all day rides at the weekends. But hey, I'd only be ruining my health / bank balance, if I wasn't out riding.

There's 2 days in a weekend.
Saturday for me is family stuff, Sunday is bike ride day. Though I do usually have 1 Sunday a month not riding.

guys i ride sat and sun am up and out by 6 am for 2 hrs max so it does'nt interfere with family time , i must just be unlucky that i want to spend time with my family on my days off .

 

[Dogtrousers]

I'm curious, can you think of a simpler way of doing this, assuming only 20th century technology?

Note that GPS selective availability was switched off in (I think) 2000 so commercial GPS is definitely 21st century.

 

[Ajax Bay]

Note that GPS selective availability was switched off in (I think) 2000 so commercial GPS is definitely 21st century.

Commercial GPS signal and equipment good enough (and small and light enough) to provide evidence of rough track cycled were available in the '90s (and being widely used on sailing yachts iirc). The selective availability meant that one could not rely on accuracy some of the time, but within 100m would have been good enough to 'prove' a DIY audax ride by GPS, were Audax UK to have been able to make the conceptual/pychological leap of faith 20 years ago. (Elements still struggling now, I think.).

 

[Dogtrousers]

Commercial GPS signal and equipment good enough (and small and light enough) to provide evidence of rough track cycled were available in the '90s (and being widely used on sailing yachts iirc). The selective availability meant that one could not rely on accuracy some of the time, but within 100m would have been good enough to 'prove' a DIY audax ride by GPS, were Audax UK to have been able to make the conceptual/pychological leap of faith 20 years ago. (Elements still struggling now, I think.).

I have to admit I didn't know that. I got my first GPS in 2002 I think so I thought I was a relatively early adopter. But not that early!

I sometimes think about ways to "improve" audaxing but really, it's none of my business. I've only done a handful of them and I'm not an AUK member. It's owned by the enthusiasts and volunteers, so I'll leave them to it. As long as I can pay my pennies every now and then and get some flapjacks on a ride, I'll leave it at that. Getting receipts and noting distances from fingerposts ... meh ... I can take or leave. I did once consider recording some of my longer rides as DIY by GPS, but I began to lose the will to live reading about "virtual brevets".