The 2024 Half Century (50km or 50 mile) Challenge Chatzone

[13 rider]

It's almost as if a challenge has been laid down to do a ride of exactly 31.0 miles and post it on here

Don't you Dare 🫨

 

[Gwylan]

Clearly I'm totally out of my depth here.

 

[13 rider]

Up to 25 riders now

Apologies for tardiness. Only one ride in August 82kms, so I'm 50% out!
Started in Poole long way round the harbour, chain ferry to Sandbanks, lunch in Bournemouth, back to Poole.

https://www.strava.com/activities/12172030416

At least your still in the challenge and that's all that matters to me, hope you found your mojo

 

[ColinJ]

This area is supposed to be underwater for the next couple of days so I made the effort to do a decent ride again today - 51 km of lumpy lanes plus the stiff climb from Crediton over to Nadderwater.

 

[Domus]

Lovely day in Sunny Grange. Warm sunshine and light winds.
new coffee shop in Milnthorpe may well become a favourite.
lots of bikes about, several groups from Kendal Cycling Club not forgetting the couple in Levens with ‘His and Her’s” matching Pinarello Dogmas. Very nice. 👍
73 Kms and 800 metres of upnes. Then watched stage 20. 😱

 

[Domus]

Another Sunny day in Grange but with a cold wind from the north. Another visit to the café in Milnthorpe but found another quiet lane to the Crooklands road. Fortunately for me I was going away from the show ground whilst the 6Kms of standing traffic was attempting to get into the Westmorland show. Back to Sunny Grange by the usual route and another point for 54 Kms. This may have been my last ride in shorts this year. Was a bit nippy.

 

[Jon George]

Having had an absolute demon August with snaffling points as a consequence of my tour of Suffolk I invented for myself, I promptly went down with a cold and, a few days later, strained my lower back. Today is the first day when I believe I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and (rather than the three qualifying rides per week I had thought about doing), I hope I should be able to get ONE in for September. Please wish me luck, folks!

 

[13 rider]

Having had an absolute demon August with snaffling points as a consequence of my tour of Suffolk I invented for myself, I promptly went down with a cold and, a few days later, strained my lower back. Today is the first day when I believe I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and (rather than the three qualifying rides per week I had thought about doing), I hope I should be able to get ONE in for September. Please wish me luck, folks!

Good luck , at least there's plenty of time

 

[bluenotebob]

Following what could best be described as a ‘farming accident’, my whole village was denied internet access for nearly a month. We finally got re-connected on Wednesday so I’ve had a lot of catching up to do since then.

I’m now up-to-date with this challenge and have done my qualifying ride for September. I’ve posted lots of multi-bike rides for August – I’m really not sure that I want to keep posting these in detail. They aren’t qualifying rides and I’ve really only posted them to explain/reconcile my points tally. As this is just for me maybe, from now on, I’ll just provide a basic summary of these rides. Anyone got any views on this?

I’m very much in two minds as to whether I’ll stay in this Challenge in 2025. I would prefer to concentrate on longer rides .. I find it frustrating to stop at 50km and I much prefer to do rides over 80km – for the Lunacy Distance challenge and to improve my Eddington numbers (Imperial and Metric). I really don’t know how @13 rider manages to stay on top of three distance challenges – that’s very impressive.

Anyway, I’ll finish this year off and see how I feel in January.

 

[Willd]

Did the ABC Street Names challenge today, so took the 17kg pub bike, rather than clipping in and out at least 26 times Also took a few footpaths, so I don't think a road bike would have managed. Hard work, averaged 12.1 mph, I would't fancy going 50 miles on it

 

[13 rider]

20th Sept
Ipswich – Kirton – Bucklesham – Levington – Nacton – (loops) – Ipswich
53.62km
1 Point

Total: 24 Points

Loads of time to spare 👍, well done

 

[Jon George]

Well, I don't know if I'm going to pay a high price for today, but at least September is in the bag.
At the beginning of the month I pulled/strained my lower back and have been taking it easy for the last fortnight. I went for an experimental 20 miler on Wednesday and it didn't feel too bad and so decided to try and beat the rain, today. I felt alright whilst moving, but when I got home and thought about punching the air at getting another point I thought 'Ah, bugger.' I'm now sitting here with a couple of paracetamols inside me and, hopefully, that'll be that: a warning not to push my body too hard.
Still, a wonderful day to be out on a bike, if a tad windy.

 

[13 rider]

September update and last weekend warning ,We have 17 riders fully posted up leaving 7 riders with rides up to August yet to declare so a nudge for @Spinney ,@Bazzer ,@slow scot ,@Chap sur le velo ,@C R ,@FrothNinja ,@Spartak and @Gibbo9
Well done everyone who's made this far were 3/4 of the way there

 

[C R]

September update and last weekend warning ,We have 17 riders fully posted up leaving 7 riders with rides up to August yet to declare so a nudge for @Spinney ,@Bazzer ,@slow scot ,@Chap sur le velo ,@C R ,@FrothNinja ,@Spartak and @Gibbo9
Well done everyone who's made this far were 3/4 of the way there

This month has been wash out for my cycling. I'm hoping to get my 50k in either Friday or Sunday.

 

[FrothNinja]

I have one in the tank but it also qualifies for Lunacy so I am hoping to squeeze a 50km in before months end for this challenge