The Imperial Century A Month Challenge Chatzone

[Supersuperleeds]

July done nice and early, decided to celebrate getting over half way through the year with a 200km.

https://www.strava.com/activities/631928884

 

[tatr]

I'm aiming to do the Dunwich Dynamo for my July ride so watching next weekend's weather with some trepidation.

 

[tatr]

Need to add to the log but I've completed July. I was quite pleased with this from Strava:

 

[Soltydog]

Got my July ride done today, went out on the new Van Nic, so that's 4 bikes i've used for the challenge so far this year. What's the record for number of bikes used in 1 year for this?
Liked the Ti, very comfy & soaked up the road buzz really well, but didn't climb as well as the carbon, but happy overall with my new purchase

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Got my July ride done today, went out on the new Van Nic, so that's 4 bikes i've used for the challenge so far this year. What's the record for number of bikes used in 1 year for this?
Liked the Ti, very comfy & soaked up the road buzz really well, but didn't climb as well as the carbon, but happy overall with my new purchase

Where did you get the Van Nic from? Really tempted to get one, but can't bring myself to spend that sort of money, yet.

 

[Soltydog]

Where did you get the Van Nic from? Really tempted to get one, but can't bring myself to spend that sort of money, yet.

Down near your way at Long Eaton cycles. Accepted my C2W voucher, so I didn't have to find too much more Very competitive prices & great service. Done over 250 miles since picking it up on Tuesday, love it!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Just looked at my August calendar. It's going to be difficult to fit in my 2 long rides. I had carefully planned my 100 miler for this Sunday ... then I noticed that it's the 31st of this month, not the 1st Aug

I didn't laugh, honestly

 

[ianrauk]

Well that's August qualifying ride all done and dusted. Have a week off work so got out of the door at an early hour. A dash down to Ashford and back. A nice mix of hilly and flat country lanes.
I decided to get out early as the weather forecast was for rain in the after noon. I got back home just before 2pm and it started to drizzle. Now raining more heavy.

69th Imperial century ride month in a row.
2/3'rd's of the year done.

 

[Soltydog]

Well that's August qualifying ride all done and dusted.

Good effort, wondered who would be first Was hoping to get mine done tomorrow, but looks like I'll be tiling & grouting all day & then I'm back at work on Weds, so mine will have to wait a while now

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Good effort, wondered who would be first Was hoping to get mine done tomorrow, but looks like I'll be tiling & grouting all day & then I'm back at work on Weds, so mine will have to wait a while now

Hoping to get mine done on Saturday.

 

[Aravis]

Having correctly discerned that today is in fact August 1st, I clocked up 100 miles at about 1:20 this afternoon. Does that make me first?

Today's ride looked like this (anticlockwise). It's quite a pretty outline:

Many years ago I was located in Bristol, and eventually moved to Gloucester via Chepstow and Lydney, so there was quite a bit of nostalgia today. The Severn Bridge I've ridden across many hundreds of times, the Avonmouth Bridge and the Clifton Suspension Bridge much less often, and it was good to get them combined in a single ride. I quite enjoyed jousting my helmetless way through Bristol, though a little of that goes a long way.

The only significant climb was Belmont Hill south of Bristol. If you want to approach the Clifton Bridge from the south you have to climb somewhere, and I thought I remembered waltzing my way up on the big ring many years ago; after reacquainting myself today this seems unlikely. The hill seems to be a popular test for local riders, and Strava gave me an unflattering 4495th out of 4649. I wonder how many of those behind me also didn't stop...

My bike is due a deep clean so I didn't mind going out in the rain today. It wasn't that bad in the event - far worse soon after I'd arrived home.

 

[rb58]

This may not be new to many (most?) of you but I stumbled across this on the web. Year Century Challenge:
https://bluedotriders.com/ycc/

Twitter @100mileriders

Its a most number of centuries in the year league table, with some serious entries.

Way beyond the likes of little me, but interesting reading.

Shame i don't use Strava.

 

[Aravis]

This may not be new to many (most?) of you but I stumbled across this on the web. Year Century Challenge:
https://bluedotriders.com/ycc/

Twitter @100mileriders

Its a most number of centuries in the year league table, with some serious entries.

Way beyond the likes of little me, but interesting reading.

Not everyone is up near the top of the leaderboard. There is the promise of a certificate for completing 20 centuries - I know you can do that.

The weekly totals board is quite fun. I've frequently done a big ride on a Monday which has put me at number 1 for a few hours at least, on at least one occasion well into Tuesday. However transient it may be, seeing 1. Aravis; 2. Steve Abraham is always going to make me smile.

I'm slightly irked by the fact that my first two centuries this year pre-dated my Garmin and Strava days. They do count 200+ mile rides as two centuries, which personally I wouldn't do, so for a while I thought I might be able to set the world to rights by riding two of those. Funnily enough this hasn't happened yet. But health permitting I will get my 20 Strava centuries this year.

 

[ianrauk]

This may not be new to many (most?) of you but I stumbled across this on the web. Year Century Challenge:
https://bluedotriders.com/ycc/

Twitter @100mileriders

Its a most number of centuries in the year league table, with some serious entries.

Way beyond the likes of little me, but interesting reading.

In other news I have a big ride planned on Saturday. If anyone's going to be out and about in the flat bits of Kent (Edenbridge, Tonbridge, Rye, Camber etc) and fancies giving me a bit of moral support, PM me.

Another who doesn't use Strava. But did my 22nd Century ride of the year today. Which would put me in 32nd place

There's a cycle chat ride heading out from Ashford on Saturday. Heading to Camber and Rye. Thread in the informal rides section.

 

[Aravis]

Another who doesn't use Strava. But did my 22nd Century ride of the year today. Which would put me in 32nd place

That's amongst those who choose to join that particular group, which could be a very small proportion of those eligible. I think you have to be UK based, which narrows the field quite a bit. Also the leaderboard isn't updated automatically and at the moment I think there's quite a backlog.

OK, it's rubbish, but still fun.