FrothNinja
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So close! I have to admit if I look at the Garmin and it reads over 3000 ft I go hill hunting and do repeats until I crack the 1000m
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So close! I have to admit if I look at the Garmin and it reads over 3000 ft I go hill hunting and do repeats until I crack the 1000m
FrothNinja
Veteran
Could try a late starter for 2022 - pretty sure I have a few sub 30 milers with over a 1000m of ascent
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
I was very tempted that day, but I was expected home, probably a bit earlier than I already was, and it would have added another half an hour to find enough for the 1000m.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Sounds like some of you might be interested in resurrecting last year's Lunacy Climbing Challenge. https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/the-annual-lunacy-climbing-challenge-chatzone.269598/
Ride at least 1000m / 3000' in a ride of less than your target distance. Route must be a loop, or out-and-back. No road to be used more than once in a given direction. Choose your target distance to suit your local terrain.
I had a lot of fun doing it. A vast amount of time wasted planning and replanning routes.
Ride at least 1000m / 3000' in a ride of less than your target distance. Route must be a loop, or out-and-back. No road to be used more than once in a given direction. Choose your target distance to suit your local terrain.
I had a lot of fun doing it. A vast amount of time wasted planning and replanning routes.
FrothNinja
Veteran
No, I was thinking something a lot simpler, more choose your minimum height for qualifying rides (12+ of em) and then get it in 24 hours on a bicycle ridden outdoors
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Now that I could do. Probably set my minimum to something like 750m for the first year, then raise it every year I manage 12
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Something simpler?
Wash your mouth out! We spent ages arguing over the absurdly complex route planning rules for that challenge.
Sea of vapours
Guru
- Location
- Clapham, Yorkshire Dales
Indeed we did. Simpler indeed: shocking ideaSomething simpler?
We spent ages arguing over the absurdly complex route planning rules for that challenge.
13. Has to be thirteen or it wouldn't be 'Lunacy'.then raise it every year I manage 12
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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'Simpler'? We don't do 'simpler'...
We don't even simply post our thoughts just once!
We don't even simply post our thoughts just once!
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
'Simpler'? We don't do 'simpler'...
We don't even simply post our thoughts just once!
We don't even simply post our thoughts just once!
FrothNinja
Veteran
Folks, should I post a thread to belatedly start The Annual Simplified Climbing Lunacy (aka "I Don't Do Sums") Challenge?
Idiot proof rules as outlined above
Idiot proof rules as outlined above
Sea of vapours
Guru
- Location
- Clapham, Yorkshire Dales
Perhaps better to put the proposed rules in here fist to [try to] avoid discussion / tweaking once you've started the thread.
FrothNinja
Veteran
Will do
FrothNinja
Veteran
Here is my proposed set of hopefully idiot proof (so that I can follow them) rules for The Annual Simplified Climbing Lunacy (aka "I Don't Do Complicated") Challenge
Same overall concept as the Lunacy Challenge (largely stolen from it to save typing effort).
1. Choose a target height, for example 1000 metres, but it can be any imperial or metric height which will be challenging for you to complete thirteen times in a calendar year.
2. The height is a daily height, not a 'ride' height, where a day is defined as 'from getting up to going to bed' (which covers night rides which go beyond midnight). This means that you can add up two or more rides in one day to count towards your target height and therefore allows, for example, two commuting rides to be added to reach a target. The idea of this is to make achieving greater height a more realistic proposition for many people who struggle to find enough spare time for individual hill rides.
3. Each time you complete a day's riding which meets or exceeds your target height, post in the challenge thread, stating your target and how many times you've met it at the top and then listing each ride which meets your target below. The post should ideally include details of the rides completed including how high, a list of points on each route, perhaps the distance, and possibly a link to the route(s) if you recorded it/them. The idea of these details is to maintain everyone's interest in where people are riding, as well as their progress towards their goal. It will also be quite fun to compare different areas.
4. Chat about rides, etc. goes in the associated chatzone thread. Please don't post anything other than lists of your rides in the challenge thread.
5. Even once you have completed thirteen qualifying rides, you can keep posting new ones where your 'top 13' has changed. Just post your thirteen highest. At the end of the year, your thirteenth highest ride is your actual achievement for the year. NB If you keep cranking out rides exactly hitting your target, you would struggle to exceed it later in the year. For example if your first 10 rides were exactly 1000 metres, you would have to do another 13 rides of 1001 metres to increase your lunacy challenge achievement to 1001 metres! If you like the idea of trying to beat your target, it is always worth adding at least a few metres/feet to as many of your hilly rides as possible throughout the year. In that respect, every duplicated ride distance is 'wasted', although each will qualify for the basic challenge that you set yourself.
6. Since the only rules are to state a target height and complete it thirteen times, anyone can join at any point during the year where there are sufficient days left to complete. It also means that an unavoidable break for illness, injury, childbirth, pressure of work, mojo-loss, freak weather conditions, [insert applicable excuse/reason here] would not bring your challenge to an abrupt finish, unless that happened to be so late in the year that you would not have time to complete the challenge once you started riding again.
6a. As the 2022 challenge would start mid year, rides from other Challenges which already show heights from posts earlier in the year, could be added as the height has already been disclosed.
Same overall concept as the Lunacy Challenge (largely stolen from it to save typing effort).
1. Choose a target height, for example 1000 metres, but it can be any imperial or metric height which will be challenging for you to complete thirteen times in a calendar year.
2. The height is a daily height, not a 'ride' height, where a day is defined as 'from getting up to going to bed' (which covers night rides which go beyond midnight). This means that you can add up two or more rides in one day to count towards your target height and therefore allows, for example, two commuting rides to be added to reach a target. The idea of this is to make achieving greater height a more realistic proposition for many people who struggle to find enough spare time for individual hill rides.
3. Each time you complete a day's riding which meets or exceeds your target height, post in the challenge thread, stating your target and how many times you've met it at the top and then listing each ride which meets your target below. The post should ideally include details of the rides completed including how high, a list of points on each route, perhaps the distance, and possibly a link to the route(s) if you recorded it/them. The idea of these details is to maintain everyone's interest in where people are riding, as well as their progress towards their goal. It will also be quite fun to compare different areas.
4. Chat about rides, etc. goes in the associated chatzone thread. Please don't post anything other than lists of your rides in the challenge thread.
5. Even once you have completed thirteen qualifying rides, you can keep posting new ones where your 'top 13' has changed. Just post your thirteen highest. At the end of the year, your thirteenth highest ride is your actual achievement for the year. NB If you keep cranking out rides exactly hitting your target, you would struggle to exceed it later in the year. For example if your first 10 rides were exactly 1000 metres, you would have to do another 13 rides of 1001 metres to increase your lunacy challenge achievement to 1001 metres! If you like the idea of trying to beat your target, it is always worth adding at least a few metres/feet to as many of your hilly rides as possible throughout the year. In that respect, every duplicated ride distance is 'wasted', although each will qualify for the basic challenge that you set yourself.
6. Since the only rules are to state a target height and complete it thirteen times, anyone can join at any point during the year where there are sufficient days left to complete. It also means that an unavoidable break for illness, injury, childbirth, pressure of work, mojo-loss, freak weather conditions, [insert applicable excuse/reason here] would not bring your challenge to an abrupt finish, unless that happened to be so late in the year that you would not have time to complete the challenge once you started riding again.
6a. As the 2022 challenge would start mid year, rides from other Challenges which already show heights from posts earlier in the year, could be added as the height has already been disclosed.
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FrothNinja
Veteran
Would it be possible to arrange for
7. The following year, everyone who met their stated target can display the crescent moon 'Lunacy Challenge' icon in their signature.
Also.....
I was wondering about having a condition that all qualifying rides should be outdoor rides.
7. The following year, everyone who met their stated target can display the crescent moon 'Lunacy Challenge' icon in their signature.
Also.....
I was wondering about having a condition that all qualifying rides should be outdoor rides.
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