The Imperial Century A Month Challenge Chatzone

[middleagecyclist]

Manage to do it?

Yes.

Managed 135 miles or so before bad knee and dead GPS forced a stop.

Will post details later when I can be bothered hobbling to car to get GPS!

 

[middleagecyclist]

Hopefully by the time I get to Hebden I'll have 65 miles in.

Good luck.

 

[ianrauk]

Yes.

Managed 135 miles or so before bad knee and dead GPS forced a stop.

Will post details later when I can be bothered hobbling to car to get GPS!

Nice one.
Sorry to hear about the knee..but 135 miles is a good wack in one go this time of year anyway.

 

[ianrauk]

So with Middleagedcyclist and HlaB completing their January 100 milers.
That makes 9 for the challenge.

But.. still a few days to go for other peeps to qualify for this years challenge.

 

[Trickedem]

So with Middleagedcyclist and HlaB completing their January 100 milers.
That makes 9 for the challenge.

But.. still a few days to go for other peeps to qualify for this years challenge.

I am so glad I got started early on mine.

 

[ColinJ]

Hopefully by the time I get to Hebden I'll have 65 miles in.

He's mad!

I just met bfb for his cafe stop in Hebden Bridge. He was like a drowned rat, having chosen to ride here via Blackstone Edge rather than the valley roads through Todmorden, That's at an elevation of 387 m (1,270 ft) and he said that conditions up there were horrendous this afternoon. Having done it myself in the past, I can quite imagine how horrid it was!

It didn't help that he'd forgotten to do up the 'pit zips on his jacket ...

Kudos to him for starting the ride knowing that these conditions were forecast. Double kudos for choosing to continue with it on wind- and rain-dashed A-roads in rush hour traffic when he has a fold-up bike which he could have taken on a bus home from here, Triple kudos for doing it with a smashed-up elbow for which he has to dose himself up with strong painkillers!

 

[middleagecyclist]

Bad knee turned out to be a strained thigh muscle and is now feeling better with strong analgesia. And no degenerative changes of the joint on XR as well. Phew!

 

[ColinJ]

Bad knee turned out to be a strained thigh muscle and is now feeling better with strong analgesia. And no degenerative changes of the joint on XR as well. Phew!

That's great news. Shaun mentioned your knee problem when I was chatting to him at the cafe.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Not been back long, 107 miles and 7800ft of climbing according to ridewithgps. Elbow sore as fook. Weather on the last 50 miles was horrendous.

Quite pleased with myself, not fast but within audax time limit....considering my fitness, my fractured elbow and the fact I was on a three speed Brompton, I'm surprised I made it.

At around the 80 mile mark was a bad patch and felt like jacking, the wind, rain, flooded roads made the last fifty miles really hard.

Edit: damn I was wrong about being within the audax time limit, I was half hour over..

 

[StuAff]

Not been back long, 107 miles and 7800ft of climbing according to ridewithgps. Elbow sore as fook. Weather on the last 50 miles was horrendous.

Quite pleased with myself, not fast but within audax time limit....considering my fitness, my fractured elbow and the fact I was on a three speed Brompton, I'm surprised I made it.

At around the 80 mile mark was a bad patch and felt like jacking, the wind, rain, flooded roads made the last fifty miles really hard.

Chapeau! One hell of a ride there. And on a Brommie!

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Unlucky about the thigh muscle but at least it's better than a knackered knee. Take it easy and I wish you a speedy recovery.

 

[musa]

Made it on the last day of the month, I was determined but boy was I so knackered..my drawn route proved useless when it come to using it on the Garmin this morning. So had to improvise and make ends meet. The winds were atrocious and side winds really rocked me. Sheperds Hill surface is terrible wobbly bike all the way down

 

[ianrauk]

Made it on the last day of the month, I was determined but boy was I so knackered..my drawn route proved useless when it come to using it on the Garmin this morning. So had to improvise and make ends meet. The winds were atrocious and side winds really rocked me. Sheperds Hill surface is terrible wobbly bike all the way down

Well done Musa.
Just noticed it on MCL.
Great effort.

 

[ianrauk]

Not been back long, 107 miles and 7800ft of climbing according to ridewithgps. Elbow sore as fook. Weather on the last 50 miles was horrendous.

Quite pleased with myself, not fast but within audax time limit....considering my fitness, my fractured elbow and the fact I was on a three speed Brompton, I'm surprised I made it.

At around the 80 mile mark was a bad patch and felt like jacking, the wind, rain, flooded roads made the last fifty miles really hard.

Edit: damn I was wrong about being within the audax time limit, I was half hour over..

Nice one.
Can you post your ride into the register.
Cheers.

 

[ianrauk]

Including bromptonfb. That's 11 people now up for the 2013 challenge.