Sea of vapours
Guru
- Location
- Clapham, Yorkshire Dales
Sounds thoroughly unpleasant, so a great effort :-) Spring in not much over a month from now!
The Annual Lunacy (aka "I Don't Do Winter") Challenge Chatzone
- Thread starter ColinJ
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Fiona R
Formerly known as Cranky Knee Girl
- Location
- N Somerset
It was, but the thought of dropping the rrty, or pressure to go out again another day was worse. It will be a lot lighter in March and in the meantime I need to up the hiit training and get some speed.
Sea of vapours
Guru
- Location
- Clapham, Yorkshire Dales
I know the feeling. I'm on 77 contiguous months of AAARtY at this point and December-February feels somewhat pressured. it's certainly much less worrying from here on for many months. Good luck with the hill training.
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Fiona R
Formerly known as Cranky Knee Girl
- Location
- N Somerset
We went to Morocco one Easter when a heck of a fluke meant the girls' school break was way out of sync with everyone else and we took a (cheap for school hols) flyer on an adventure holiday flying 1st April. Our 6am flight from Luton was the last one out of the South East that morning due to blizzards! It might have been that year.
Fiona R
Formerly known as Cranky Knee Girl
- Location
- N Somerset
Still no faster but the RRtY chugs along. Well it was supposed to be a 2x200km training weekend but ended up a 1x200km and 1x125km. Saturday I rode to and from the Missed Connection audax which was a hilly haul south from Bristol to Shaftesbury via Bruton, up Gold Hill and through the Longleat Estate to Bath via Two Tunnels then Bristol to Bath Railway Path back to Easton and on home.
Sunday were the famous LVIS audax; 200km Butt Buster, 160km Bash and 118km blast. Famous for the legendary cake spread two WIs put on at Hill and Doynton, with Somerset Monument at Hawkesbury Upton in between. After the Gloucestershire loop the cake heavy cyclist is returned to Somerset/Chew Magna via Keynsham then up and over West Harptree and down to Glastonbury to head back to Long Ashton via Clevedon. I was so slow I chugged back from Chew Magna so basically did the shortest route instead of the longest. I was mightily please to get up the monument without walking but was 10 minutes late starting, added 10km to the first 50 getting the route wrong and missing the first control/retracing and being slow. It was a good day and glad I didn't plough on, had a blast as a result. Got back to Long Ashton 5 minutes before the rain started that had been forecast all day. Result. Still very windy grinding all the way south to Chew Magna never mind up onto Mendips.
Hardly a lunatic at all.
Sunday were the famous LVIS audax; 200km Butt Buster, 160km Bash and 118km blast. Famous for the legendary cake spread two WIs put on at Hill and Doynton, with Somerset Monument at Hawkesbury Upton in between. After the Gloucestershire loop the cake heavy cyclist is returned to Somerset/Chew Magna via Keynsham then up and over West Harptree and down to Glastonbury to head back to Long Ashton via Clevedon. I was so slow I chugged back from Chew Magna so basically did the shortest route instead of the longest. I was mightily please to get up the monument without walking but was 10 minutes late starting, added 10km to the first 50 getting the route wrong and missing the first control/retracing and being slow. It was a good day and glad I didn't plough on, had a blast as a result. Got back to Long Ashton 5 minutes before the rain started that had been forecast all day. Result. Still very windy grinding all the way south to Chew Magna never mind up onto Mendips.
Hardly a lunatic at all.
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Well, I managed to reach 35% of my target distance on Saturday's ride! 
I will probably wait until April before getting started on the challenge, unless I can sort out the noises that my singlespeed bike has started making again. I will start using my best bike again once the clocks have gone forward - I don't fancy trying to ride 100+ km on a bike that is irritating and worrying me!
I must have a look in my various boxes and drawers full of old bike bits. I may have a bottom bracket which I could use instead of the suspect one on the bike. (Though I am not convinced that the BB IS the problem.)
I will probably wait until April before getting started on the challenge, unless I can sort out the noises that my singlespeed bike has started making again. I will start using my best bike again once the clocks have gone forward - I don't fancy trying to ride 100+ km on a bike that is irritating and worrying me!
I must have a look in my various boxes and drawers full of old bike bits. I may have a bottom bracket which I could use instead of the suspect one on the bike. (Though I am not convinced that the BB IS the problem.)
Fiona R
Formerly known as Cranky Knee Girl
- Location
- N Somerset
I just ride (mainly) the one bike. If you don't count the utility/hybrid/commuting/shopping/town/pub bike that can be left anywhere as it's not appealing to thieves. All this fettling palaver!
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
The singlespeed bike is MY general purpose bike. No good for steep hills, but otherwise fun to ride and it didn't cost much to put together so I am not worried about leaving it outside Lidl/Aldi when I shop.
The thing is, it was cobbled together out of old bits so every now and then that makes itself obvious. Now that I am finally getting my state pension I might splash some cash on the bike, but not so much that I start to worry about it being left unattended.
Sea of vapours
Guru
- Location
- Clapham, Yorkshire Dales
As of yesterday: one down; twelve to go.
It's quiet on this thread. Time for a few more people to get their 2022 Lunacy started
Having started the actual challenge thread this year, I thought I'd better get at least one Lunacy Challenge ride in before the end of April but, what with snow/sleet showers around Tan Hill, it felt more like a winter ride (fortunately I'd pretty much dressed for winter !), though with the huge benefit of longer daylight hours. Still, my reason for doing this challenge is entirely around not being able/willing to do such long rides in winter due to lack of light so that's fine :-)
I've gone for a 150km target again, though, also again, with a stretch target of 161km / 100 miles, and this ride ticked both.
It's quiet on this thread. Time for a few more people to get their 2022 Lunacy started
Having started the actual challenge thread this year, I thought I'd better get at least one Lunacy Challenge ride in before the end of April but, what with snow/sleet showers around Tan Hill, it felt more like a winter ride (fortunately I'd pretty much dressed for winter !), though with the huge benefit of longer daylight hours. Still, my reason for doing this challenge is entirely around not being able/willing to do such long rides in winter due to lack of light so that's fine :-)
I've gone for a 150km target again, though, also again, with a stretch target of 161km / 100 miles, and this ride ticked both.
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
My head seems to be stuck in Covid winter, and my riding with it...
It is the end of April yet this room was only at 14 degrees before I switched my convector heater on. I have gone back to wearing hat and long-fingered gloves when walking to the shops. I have been cutting short rides even shorter because of the buffeting by cold winds.
I am off to Devon in a month's time and I want to be doing longer rides again by then. I certainly want to get at least one metric century in before I go and one (maybe two?) while I am down there. That would still be pretty poor going by the start of June though.
It is the end of April yet this room was only at 14 degrees before I switched my convector heater on. I have gone back to wearing hat and long-fingered gloves when walking to the shops. I have been cutting short rides even shorter because of the buffeting by cold winds.
I am off to Devon in a month's time and I want to be doing longer rides again by then. I certainly want to get at least one metric century in before I go and one (maybe two?) while I am down there. That would still be pretty poor going by the start of June though.
FrothNinja
Veteran
Durn - I keep forgetting the rides that qualify for the 50k challenge also qualify for this too
FrothNinja
Veteran
Just added the 6 latest qualifying rides.
If I have the rules right, the next 3 rides over my distance go on the list and after that I only add rides that make the top 13 distance wise?
If I have the rules right, the next 3 rides over my distance go on the list and after that I only add rides that make the top 13 distance wise?
Sea of vapours
Guru
- Location
- Clapham, Yorkshire Dales
More or less that, yes.
In practice, you can rearrange the list so that the top thirteen, in distance terms, are at the top, but keep the other qualifying rides below them. No rule that you have to do that, but it just makes the whole thing a bit more interesting. Something like mine from last year:
In practice, you can rearrange the list so that the top thirteen, in distance terms, are at the top, but keep the other qualifying rides below them. No rule that you have to do that, but it just makes the whole thing a bit more interesting. Something like mine from last year:
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FrothNinja
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Thanks - that looks like it will make keeping track easier.
Will give it a shot
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