The 2016 Half Century (50 KM or 50 Mile) A Month Challenge - Chatzone

[Sbudge]

Not going too well this month - only half a dozen rides around 20-25 miles so far and no challenges completed.

Apart from my Pectineus muscle issue caused by a climbing move 10 days back my S-I-L died on Monday aged only 60 after a very long battle with cancer.

And then on a much lower scale of issue I woke up last night around 3pm with a back muscle spasm - literally took 15 minutes to drag myself to the loo for a pee. Took some Paracetamol & Ibuprofen and Lovely Wife applied Voltarol and an hour later I drifted off to sleep.

Got up this morning and no real pain but felt sore - bizarre! No idea why this happened.

Will try to get out and do a challenge ride on Friday but after Monday's events I am struggling with motivation and my priority is to support my wife.

Not great at all, sorry you're having such a tough one. Back and climbing injury may well be related so worth gently working on your range of motion more...it's so easy to get all knotted up without realising it (The stress of your SIL won't have helped either). When you get a chance a long gentle ride to clear your mind might help.

 

[13 rider]

Not going too well this month - only half a dozen rides around 20-25 miles so far and no challenges completed.

Apart from my Pectineus muscle issue caused by a climbing move 10 days back my S-I-L died on Monday aged only 60 after a very long battle with cancer.

And then on a much lower scale of issue I woke up last night around 3pm with a back muscle spasm - literally took 15 minutes to drag myself to the loo for a pee. Took some Paracetamol & Ibuprofen and Lovely Wife applied Voltarol and an hour later I drifted off to sleep.

Got up this morning and no real pain but felt sore - bizarre! No idea why this happened.

Will try to get out and do a challenge ride on Friday but after Monday's events I am struggling with motivation and my priority is to support my wife.

Sorry for your loss ,still two weekends left plenty of time . Your health and family need to come first .

 

[Lilliburlero]

@SpokeyDokey

 

[SpokeyDokey]

35.41 miles / 56.99 km / 14.35 av' mph / 2035' ascent.

Got my June challenge done today and pleased to get it out of the way after such a miserable week following bereavement.

Nice ride out to the Grange over Sands peninsula.

Ended up on the A591 amidst a TT for about 500m - I was steadily ploughing along the flat at around 18 mph and 2 riders came whizzing by, spaced a little apart, and I felt like I was going in reverse!

2 squashed Hedgehogs and 1 squashed Seagull on my travels made me miserable for a while.

Was surprised to have to ride through a flooded lane just outside Meathop (near Grange over Sands) - a bit over 100m long and around BB depth.

Council have gone mad with chippings over the last few weeks so thanks to the idiot in the ludicrously lowered old Polo, with 'Dubz' plastered in pink over his back window, who went by at speed and peppered my right leg with gravel - *osser! I wished him harm for a good few minutes.

Safe and (hopefully) chipping free riding everyone.

 

[Lilliburlero]

Well done @SpokeyDokey for getting out today and popping a 50 km ride in

Kudos

 

[NorthernDave]

Apologies (again) to the half century collective - I forgot to post on this thread about yesterdays ride despite posting a report on the 'Your Ride Today' thread...
Added another metric half today, so that's two this weekend!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Apologies (again) to the half century collective - I forgot to post on this thread about yesterdays ride despite posting a report on the 'Your Ride Today' thread...
Added another metric half today, so that's two this weekend!

@NorthernDave

Looks like you're flying - good points total so far!

 

[Eribiste]

A nice ride round The Lenches near Evesham today. My ride took me past Throckmorton airfield, the old RAF Pershore, where someone was flying a model Folland Gnat, complete with jet engine. I tell you what, it sounded just right! The driver could work a radio set too, giving a really good flying expo.

 

[kapelmuur]

A nice ride round The Lenches near Evesham today. My ride took me past Throckmorton airfield, the old RAF Pershore, where someone was flying a model Folland Gnat, complete with jet engine. I tell you what, it sounded just right! The driver could work a radio set too, giving a really good flying expo.

I was serving in the RAF at CFS Little Rissington when the Red Arrows (flying Folland Gnats) were based there.

We got so blase about seeing them practicing every day that we didn't look up when they flew over.

 

[kapelmuur]

@gavgav, I get a little sentimental when I see your routes in the Challenge thread.

I'm from Shrewsbury and remember going to watch my Dad and uncle playing cricket in some of the Shropshire villages you mention. That was 50/60 years ago, so I guess a lot has changed since.

 

[gavgav]

@gavgav, I get a little sentimental when I see your routes in the Challenge thread.

I'm from Shrewsbury and remember going to watch my Dad and uncle playing cricket in some of the Shropshire villages you mention. That was 50/60 years ago, so I guess a lot has changed since.

Which team did they play for? I play cricket for a village team nowadays and there are some lovely village pitches across the county.

Some parts of rural Shropshire have escaped the modernisation that ruins so many places these days, particularly in the south of the county.

 

[kapelmuur]

Which team did they play for? I play cricket for a village team nowadays and there are some lovely village pitches across the county.

Some parts of rural Shropshire have escaped the modernisation that ruins so many places these days, particularly in the south of the county.

Dad played originally for Shrewsbury, but as a working class man with Irish roots he didn't feel welcome there. So he founded Cathedral C.C. based at the RC Cathedral on Town Walls, this in 1936. The club is now defunct, but I believe it may have continued to the start of this century.

I especially remember Condover, Church Stretton (where I used to watch the express steam trains to South Wales), Acton Reynold, Knockin, Bishop's Castle (captained by Colonel Sykes who had a tin leg who refused to be given out LBW because 'I haven't got the leg' ), the grudge matches against the 'posh boys' of Wroxeter and Shrewsbury and my favourite - Cound.

You may remember Freddie Fry who was a director at Shrewsbury Town, he 'owned' Cound and used to umpire at the bowlers end throughout a game. The visiting umpire had to stay at square leg! Mr Fry was a very nice man, but a stickler for correct behaviour, in a game I played in he sent off a Cound bowler for swearing when a decision went against him.

Most of the village wickets were dodgy to say the least, 130/140 was usually a winning score. The best wickets were at the big hospitals, Shelton and the orthopedic at Oswestry. I guess those are gone now.

Who do you play for?

 

[gavgav]

Dad played originally for Shrewsbury, but as a working class man with Irish roots he didn't feel welcome there. So he founded Cathedral C.C. based at the RC Cathedral on Town Walls, this in 1936. The club is now defunct, but I believe it may have continued to the start of this century.

I especially remember Condover, Church Stretton (where I used to watch the express steam trains to South Wales), Acton Reynold, Knockin, Bishop's Castle (captained by Colonel Sykes who had a tin leg who refused to be given out LBW because 'I haven't got the leg' ), the grudge matches against the 'posh boys' of Wroxeter and Shrewsbury and my favourite - Cound.

You may remember Freddie Fry who was a director at Shrewsbury Town, he 'owned' Cound and used to umpire at the bowlers end throughout a game. The visiting umpire had to stay at square leg! Mr Fry was a very nice man, but a stickler for correct behaviour, in a game I played in he sent off a Cound bowler for swearing when a decision went against him.

Most of the village wickets were dodgy to say the least, 130/140 was usually a winning score. The best wickets were at the big hospitals, Shelton and the orthopedic at Oswestry. I guess those are gone now.

Who do you play for?

I play for Acton Scott. We've been a club for 20 years now, basically on a farmers field that we only get access to for 3 months a year! Makes for an "interesting" wicket, but as a bowler I'm happy with that Fabulous views from our ground though and lots of visiting teams state it their favourite friendly fixture in the season.

We play away matches at some of the grounds you've mentioned and indeed I played league cricket for Church Stretton, for a couple of years, back in the early 2000's.

Yes indeed I remember Freddie Fry.

 

[Saluki]

Finally got out and got on with the half century thing today. I have not been feeling the love of cycling at all, since moving. I haven't found my hill legs but I have found that cycling on the quiet country roads is tantamount to suicide as the tourists all think that they are rally drivers - might be the locals of course, it's not like they stop at all so I can't ask. Getting bored with the Camel Trail, it's all Hubster wants to do really. I have to say that Cornwall is all very pretty but I miss Norfolk. I miss the narrow lanes that you can see traffic coming along on due to them not having 14' hedges and walls. I miss the whole turning a corner and not being faced with a 20% hill rearing up like a brick wall, in front of you too. I think that I have done more walking in the last 3 months, with my bike, than I have in the rest of my life, put together. Still haven't found those hill legs but I live in hope.

At the end of May, I did do 2 rides that together made well over 50km, but don't know if I can add them. There was about a 4 hour or so gap between them. Hubster rang and said that he had to go somewhere and I had to come back and wait for a parcel, that didn't arrive until well after 7pm. If it's OK with the collective, I'll add it to the list. If not, that's fine too.

 

[Katherine]

Finally got out and got on with the half century thing today. I have not been feeling the love of cycling at all, since moving. I haven't found my hill legs but I have found that cycling on the quiet country roads is tantamount to suicide as the tourists all think that they are rally drivers - might be the locals of course, it's not like they stop at all so I can't ask. Getting bored with the Camel Trail, it's all Hubster wants to do really. I have to say that Cornwall is all very pretty but I miss Norfolk. I miss the narrow lanes that you can see traffic coming along on due to them not having 14' hedges and walls. I miss the whole turning a corner and not being faced with a 20% hill rearing up like a brick wall, in front of you too. I think that I have done more walking in the last 3 months, with my bike, than I have in the rest of my life, put together. Still haven't found those hill legs but I live in hope.

At the end of May, I did do 2 rides that together made well over 50km, but don't know if I can add them. There was about a 4 hour or so gap between them. Hubster rang and said that he had to go somewhere and I had to come back and wait for a parcel, that didn't arrive until well after 7pm. If it's OK with the collective, I'll add it to the list. If not, that's fine too.

Of course it's fine. The miles just have to be done on the same day. Well done. Have you got the chance to take the bike somewhere on the train or in the car for the occasional change or route?