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

[13 rider]

July's half metric century is done and dusted. I can laze about for the rest of the month, if I want too. Virtually flat (494m of climbing but so gentle that it's virtually unnoticed). I really am not finding these fabled climbing legs at all.
I got a p******* and a nice man came to help me fix it, as my hands were being really pants today. We chatted for about half an hour. Nice chap. Found him on Strava flyby and left him a thank you message and clicked the kudos thing
I swapped bikes at the 24 mile mark, as I went past my home. My feet were soaked through and muddy so I needed to change shoes, which meant changing bikes on account of having SPDs on the CX and Speedplays on the Roadie. Once home I had a shower and blocked the drain as I must have had a couple of kg of mud about my person . Hubster has cleaned the drain out, so that's OK then.

Might use most of that route in a couple of weeks when I become a grockle and clog up the camel trail .You can always do another half century nothing stopping you

 

[Saluki]

Might use most of that route in a couple of weeks when I become a grockle and clog up the camel trail .You can always do another half century nothing stopping you

I know. Not been feeling the love of late.
It's a nice route. The Snails Pace Cafe at the far end is worth stopping at. If you are in the area, the Mineral Tramways Trail is a good ride from Portreath to Devoran. Excellent cafe just before the end of the trail.

 

[13 rider]

I know. Not been feeling the love of late.
It's a nice route. The Snails Pace Cafe at the far end is worth stopping at. If you are in the area, the Mineral Tramways Trail is a good ride from Portreath to Devoran. Excellent cafe just before the end of the trail.

Snails pace café at Wendord bridge ? .Did Portreath to Deveron last year café at cycle hire place ?

 

[Saluki]

Snails pace café at Wendord bridge ? .Did Portreath to Deveron last year café at cycle hire place ?

Snails Pace at Wenfordbridge, yes. No poshy nobby coffees there, it's a cafetiere or forget it as they are off-grid and the big swooshy, plooshy noisy coffee machines use too much electricity.
The cafe/cycle hire near Devoran is a totally different place. Very orange Really good tea and cake prices though, we were very impressed. Planning on a ride there, again, in a few days. We rather like the trails there.

 

[NorthernDave]

An early banker this morning to get the metric half in for July.
I had been thinking that I might get an imperial half in, or time permitting maybe even a metric century, but the weather soon saw those plans binned. I'm still eagerly awaiting that summer long heatwave that they were promising a few weeks ago - it can't be far off now can it..?
Maybe tomorrow eh?

Report in the usual place.

 

[tallliman]

@NorthernDave, the rain wasn't too bad here so got in a metric ton. The wind on the other hand was dire!

 

[Eribiste]

I've been trying to get my legs doing their thing again lately, ready for the Malvern Mad Hatter on 23rd July. Today's training effort took me up and over British Camp from Welland today, scoring a PR for the Cat.3! That'll do nicely.

 

[NorthernDave]

Another metric half this morning. Much nicer weather today, even glorious sunshine at times and I had the unexpected bonus of some closed roads cycling

Report in the usual place!

 

[Katherine]

Got home in time to see Mr K off to work, checked the distance on my phone : 48.5 miles. Back out again obviously. 53 miles in the end as I bumped into 2 people I know and showed them a better way onto the bit of route 55 near me that was originally a railway line, where a lovely new slope has appeared. Much easier than using the steep steps and the side gutter.

 

[kapelmuur]

It was grey and drizzling again when I set off this morning, does anyone remember a wetter start to 'summer'?

I don't have best and winter bikes, I have a wet weather bike with mudguards and disc brakes and a dry weather bike with no mudguards and caliper brakes..

According to my diary it's a fortnight since I've been on the dry weather machine!

 

[Effyb4]

I managed to do my first ever ride over 100 km on Sunday. The sun was shining and it was my birthday so we went for breakfast at 'Look mum no hands' in London. We went via CS2 on the way there and CS3 on the way back. I'm very pleased it was a Sunday and there weren't too many cyclists using them. They looked very narrow in places. I was very tired when I got back home.

When I came to upload my ride to strava, it said that the file was corrupted and some of the ride may have been lost. Fortunately there didn''t seem too much missing, although it went a bit haywire in central London.

 

[Spinney]

Two metric half centuries this month - both utility rides (i.e. taking the long way round to the shops) - but both were on sunny days so that's OK.
Might attempt to do my Severn Loop again this month, but do want to get an Imperial century in as well - I've managed to do one of those a year for the last few years.

 

[tallliman]

Well done @Effyb4!

 

[Lilliburlero]

@Effyb4

Well done

EDIT: Belated happy birthday wishes

 

[NorthernDave]

I managed to do my first ever ride over 100 km on Sunday. The sun was shining and it was my birthday so we went for breakfast at 'Look mum no hands' in London. We went via CS2 on the way there and CS3 on the way back. I'm very pleased it was a Sunday and there weren't too many cyclists using them. They looked very narrow in places. I was very tired when I got back home.

When I came to upload my ride to strava, it said that the file was corrupted and some of the ride may have been lost. Fortunately there didn''t seem too much missing, although it went a bit haywire in central London.