The Imperial Century A Month Challenge Chatzone

[ianrauk]

Well that's Mays qualifying ride done and dusted. A most excellent ride down to Brighton and back.

Ride report HERE in the Your Ride Today Thread.

 

[rb58]

Nice one Ross. I was either second to complete or first, depending if you hit the ton by 1320 or so. 128 miles done since midnight CET

I was home showered and lunching by then @StuAff . Do I win?

 

[StuAff]

I ààwas home showered and lunching by then @StuAff . Do I win?

Yup, quite right too!

 

[tatr]

Got my century in on the 1st of the month this month

The ride down the old A3 from Hindhead is amazing - well worth a special trip if you haven't been there: http://roadsnomore.tumblr.com/old-a3-hindhead

 

[Aravis]

May's qualifying ride is done and the log updated. I stepped up to 150 miles this time, partly in preparation for an attempt at the one day Godwin challenge.

My route on Thursday was similar to the one I have in mind for the Godwin challenge but not extending so far south. For the Godwin I intend to use a starfish-shaped circuit where I can head for home early at certain points if it's not going so well. That way I won't be committed to the full distance until I'm reasonably sure I can make it.

I tried to use that principle on Thursday's ride. Had I headed straight home from Cheltenham the distance would have been 120 miles. However, I don't think I was ever fooling myself that the real target was anything other than 150, and it remains to be seen if the psychology will work for me on the full Godwin distance.That will be 209 miles, by the way. Surely no-one is going to stop voluntarily at 205.6?

A few weeks ago I found a splendid drinking water fountain in the centre of Upton-on-Severn, next to the information centre by the quayside. That's about 20 miles from my home and is very well situated for any ride where I'm returning from the north. In the "old days" I knew of many roadside watering places - typically garages - and would normally expect to be able to find them wherever I happened to be. Nowadays they seem to have largely disappeared. Does a directory of such places exist?

https://www.strava.com/activities/566422102

 

[martint235]

Sp I am going to throw myself on the mercy of jury. I set off today to do the Hop Garden 200km. With my ride to the start and back from the finish, this would have been 160 miles. However, at mile 50 my legs cramped up and I needed to stop and rub them down for a bit. I struggled on to the half way point in Hythe in the hope that a breakfast would sort me out. My hand was cramping up holding the fork! So onwards until we got about 84 miles in and I decided there was no way I was going to complete as we had a couple of stupid hills to contend with. Waving good bye to @ianrauk I limped off for Ashford station arriving there with 96.1 miles on the clock. No trains were running on my home line so got one to Bromley South and cycled 7.79 miles home from there to give a day total of 103.89 in 6 hours 51.

So what say the jury? Does it count? To NOT count it I'm looking for a majority against OR 1 person who says "I wanted to do this and was denied".

I await the verdict.

 

[StuAff]

Sp I am going to throw myself on the mercy of jury. I set off today to do the Hop Garden 200km. With my ride to the start and back from the finish, this would have been 160 miles. However, at mile 50 my legs cramped up and I needed to stop and rub them down for a bit. I struggled on to the half way point in Hythe in the hope that a breakfast would sort me out. My hand was cramping up holding the fork! So onwards until we got about 84 miles in and I decided there was no way I was going to complete as we had a couple of stupid hills to contend with. Waving good bye to @ianrauk I limped off for Ashford station arriving there with 96.1 miles on the clock. No trains were running on my home line so got one to Bromley South and cycled 7.79 miles home from there to give a day total of 103.89 in 6 hours 51.

So what say the jury? Does it count? To NOT count it I'm looking for a majority against OR 1 person who says "I wanted to do this and was denied".

I await the verdict.

Having done 151 miles for a qualifying ride with a train in between, yes. Well done!

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Sp I am going to throw myself on the mercy of jury. I set off today to do the Hop Garden 200km. With my ride to the start and back from the finish, this would have been 160 miles. However, at mile 50 my legs cramped up and I needed to stop and rub them down for a bit. I struggled on to the half way point in Hythe in the hope that a breakfast would sort me out. My hand was cramping up holding the fork! So onwards until we got about 84 miles in and I decided there was no way I was going to complete as we had a couple of stupid hills to contend with. Waving good bye to @ianrauk I limped off for Ashford station arriving there with 96.1 miles on the clock. No trains were running on my home line so got one to Bromley South and cycled 7.79 miles home from there to give a day total of 103.89 in 6 hours 51.

So what say the jury? Does it count? To NOT count it I'm looking for a majority against OR 1 person who says "I wanted to do this and was denied".

I await the verdict.

It's over 100 miles done on the same day and at what seems to me a very respectable 15.1 mph average. It might not be the ride you had in mind at the start but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't count so it's from me.

Edit to add: On the Llandudno ride last year the lunch stop ended up being over two hours for me due to the incident that befell the rest of the group. Were you on the train as long as that?

 

[martint235]

It's over 100 miles done on the same day and at what seems to me a very respectable 15.1 mph average. It might not be the ride you had in mind at the start but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't count so it's from me.

Edit to add: On the Llandudno ride last year the lunch stop ended up being over two hours for me due to the incident that befell the rest of the group. Were you on the train as long as that?

No train was slow but about an hour 20 mins

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Sp I am going to throw myself on the mercy of jury. I set off today to do the Hop Garden 200km. With my ride to the start and back from the finish, this would have been 160 miles. However, at mile 50 my legs cramped up and I needed to stop and rub them down for a bit. I struggled on to the half way point in Hythe in the hope that a breakfast would sort me out. My hand was cramping up holding the fork! So onwards until we got about 84 miles in and I decided there was no way I was going to complete as we had a couple of stupid hills to contend with. Waving good bye to @ianrauk I limped off for Ashford station arriving there with 96.1 miles on the clock. No trains were running on my home line so got one to Bromley South and cycled 7.79 miles home from there to give a day total of 103.89 in 6 hours 51.

So what say the jury? Does it count? To NOT count it I'm looking for a majority against OR 1 person who says "I wanted to do this and was denied".

I await the verdict.

I say it counts, as far as I'm concerned it's one ride over 100 miles with a train ride break in the middle.

It's over 100 miles done on the same day and at what seems to me a very respectable 15.1 mph average. It might not be the ride you had in mind at the start but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't count so it's from me.

Edit to add: On the Llandudno ride last year the lunch stop ended up being over two hours for me due to the incident that befell the rest of the group. Were you on the train as long as that?

I don't agree with the 100 miles in the same day argument, otherwise I could have claimed my rides on Friday.

 

[StuAff]

AFAIC, if it's within a 24 hour period, entirely within the calendar month specified, and you aren't stopping for hours, it applies. Rob S's rules from the very first post require that. The only rule from that limited set I disagree with is 'stops at your home are not permitted'. Doesn't make a bit of difference to how easy/hard the ride is, that's just a rule for rules' sake. I wouldn't have tried to count Friday's/Saturday's rides as a qualifier because they were two distinct rides, with a nap in between. If I was aiming to do a 100 mile ride, I'd have done it all on the IOW as I did last year.

 

[Soltydog]

So what say the jury? Does it count? To NOT count it I'm looking for a majority against OR 1 person who says "I wanted to do this and was denied".

I await the verdict.

I'm sure it counts. One of mine last year involved a 40 min train journey & no one said that it wasn't allowed (unless you had a nap on the train !! )

 

[ianrauk]

It counts as far as I am concerned.

 

[rb58]

It counts. It's no different to stopping for an hour and twenty minutes in a cafe for breakfast.

 

[martint235]

Well I've counted it now. I feel I suffered enough to get it!!!