The 2025 Half Century (50km or 50 mile) Challenge Chatzone.

[sevenfourate]

Nice pictures ... 👍

Really appreciated. I try !

 

[bluenotebob]

A question for @Donger , if I may ...


You mentioned sometime last year that you’d just completed your second lap of the world. How many miles is a lap of the world?

I’ve just passed 48,200 miles (since the start of 2017) and am curious as to where I am in terms of global circumnavigation.

A couple of years back, my neighbour overheard this conversation between her then 7-year old (W) and his friend of the same age (M):

W: “Bob’s cycled all over the world!”

M: “Noooo – he can’t have done – the world’s too big!”

As though I’d decided to leave on a Monday morning, cycle to Australia and get back home a bit tired on Saturday evening ...

 

[Donger]

A question for @Donger , if I may ...


You mentioned sometime last year that you’d just completed your second lap of the world. How many miles is a lap of the world?

I’ve just passed 48,200 miles (since the start of 2017) and am curious as to where I am in terms of global circumnavigation.

A couple of years back, my neighbour overheard this conversation between her then 7-year old (W) and his friend of the same age (M):

W: “Bob’s cycled all over the world!”

M: “Noooo – he can’t have done – the world’s too big!”

As though I’d decided to leave on a Monday morning, cycle to Australia and get back home a bit tired on Saturday evening ...

I based that on Mark Beaumont's Artemis World Bike Ride, when he set a "round the world" record. That distance was 18,032 miles. How they fixed on that distance for the official record I'm not entirely sure. The circumference of the earth is 24,901miles, but you would need a big machete and a pedalo to complete that journey. The 18,032 mile figure works out at about 72% of the circumference, which seems fair enough given the oceans that you can't be expected to cycle in!

The good news is that you have already gone around twice and are two thirds of your way into your third lap! You only need another 1,602 miles to complete a second full planet that nobody can argue against.

 

[bluenotebob]

The good news is that you have already gone around twice and are two thirds of your way into your third lap! You only need another 1,602 miles to complete a second full planet that nobody can argue against.

Thanks very much !

I think I'll have a very large chocolate cake lined up for the completion of the second full planet (jungles and oceans notwithstanding).

Sometime in June or July, I reckon ... if I remember, I'll post a photo of the cake ...

 

[Willd]

I don't know if there are any gravel riders in the thread other than me. Today we rode an interesting route which encompassed all the joys of gravel

"Gravel" you say

I'm going to try to do one 50km ride a month off-road (ish). Not sure if I'll be so keen in November...
I'm trying to justify a gravel bike - which would be a lot better on-road than my heavy old hybrid, although I'm not sure it'd be much quicker on sections like the one below, other than being easier to push or carry

 

[ColinJ]

I will just do short easyish rides today and tomorrow then try to get some longer rides in when I am down in Devon. I hope to do a 111 km ride there (my promised 'age in miles' ride) and maybe some more at 50+ km.

Well, I got a "50+ km" today: 50 + 1!

I did a little tour around the Crediton/Exeter area. Quite lumpy - 865 m of ascent in 51 km (2,800+ ft in 31.7 miles).

Really nice cycling conditions - sunny, dry, mild, not too windy. No puddles or wet mud since it has been very dry for a month, except for a few downpours here and there. There was some mud left over from the winter but it was all dry and turning to dust.

I appear to be getting fitter... A couple of times I was lost in thought as I was riding and suddenly realised that I hadn't noticed the effort of a toughish climb and was already at the top - that doesn't happen often!