The Imperial Century A Month Challenge Chatzone

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Just got back, harder than I thought it would have been. I didn't manage my food intake properly and bonked 15 miles from home...had a kebab and a rest and all was well.

13 1/2 hours all in.

The weather was perfect, sunshine all day, a tiny little shower near the end.

 

[ColinJ]

My next 100 will almost certainly be the Cotswold Challenge, starting in Meriden on 18th May

http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/13-993

I've entered and am 90% sure I'll be available to ride

A good point about Meriden is that it has the Cyclist War Memorial there.

Martin

I rode it in 2009. I thought it was quite a nice route but we had a headwind for the first half of the ride which made it hard work. I think there were 3 climbs at 14-15% plus some easier ones. It came up about a mile short so remember to add a mile somewhere to get the full century in! There is one very busy A-road to cross and some of the riders I was with jumped across some dangerously small gaps in the traffic. Take care!

 

[Norry1]

Thanks Colin good warning about the mileage. If I can get up in time, I may ride there and back which is about 12.5 miles each way. I know most of the route as it is on my turf!

 

[ColinJ]

Thanks Colin good warning about the mileage. If I can get up in time, I may ride there and back which is about 12.5 miles each way. I know most of the route as it is on my turf!

In that case, make sure that you get your 200 km in!

I just remembered something else ... assuming that the route hasn't changed, there is a stop at Batsford Arboretum and you get to it by a 2/3 mile descent on a woodland track. That was a bit dodgy when I rode the event - slippery with mud and leaf mulch. I picked up too much speed and almost slid off the track when I braked!

A couple of pictures from the ride ...

(14% gradient, though it doesn't look it!)

 

[middleagecyclist]

Now I have a quandary and need advice.

I have a long ride planned this week and can easily make it century. However, I am attempting a 400k audax (my first) at the end of the month and, even if i DNF, will make a century then. Should I hang on for the biggee as this months qualifying ride or just take the first chance i can?

 

[ianrauk]

Go for it. It's good stamina training. And the 400k is a few weeks so plenty of time for recovery.

I always try to get my qualifying ride in as early in the month as possible.
Luckily for this weekend we have great weather forecast. So have a 200k planned for Sunday.

 

[Norry1]

Decide on the day. If you feel like it, get a century in. If not, or if time is limited, leave it until your 400.

Enjoy anyway.

 

[Banjo]

Now I have a quandary and need advice.

I have a long ride planned this week and can easily make it century. However, I am attempting a 400k audax (my first) at the end of the month and, even if i DNF, will make a century then. Should I hang on for the biggee as this months qualifying ride or just take the first chance i can?

I would do the century now,if anything stops you riding at the end of the month you have broken the chain of 100s as well as DNS/DNFd the 400.

When I did the century a month I tried to do them all in the first week of the month. Dont risk wasting the cold winter centuries you have allready logged for 2013.

PS good luck on the 400 ,thats 200 more than I have achieved.

 

[middleagecyclist]

Well the choice has now been made for me. The day I am to do the long ride/possible century next week has now been cut short a tad as the missus has to work and so I am doing the school drop off and collection. I'm trying to get faster but i'm not going to attempt a sub 6hr century just yet .

Looks like it'll be the 400k this month.

 

[ianrauk]

Well that's May's 100 miler done and dusted. And a glorious day it was for it too. Cycled to Whitstable, Kent and back with rb58 of this parish.

 

[rb58]

Well that's May's 100 miler done and dusted. And a glorious day it was for it too. Cycled to Whitstable, Kent and back with rb58 of this parish.

Almost perfect cycling weather too. Loved the bit chasing down the two guys who really thought they could get away. LOL.

 

[StuAff]

Nice one chaps. Did mine yesterday (my HPC-Southsea ride, plus rode in from Clapham Junction, so 93 miles to Fratton station & took an extended route home to make up the extra), then today the IOW Randonnee as a recovery ride

 

[ianrauk]

Almost perfect cycling weather too. Loved the bit chasing down the two guys who really thought they could get away. LOL.

With the result one of them trying his hardest to hang on to the back of us

 

[HLaB]

Almost perfect cycling weather too. Loved the bit chasing down the two guys who really thought they could get away. LOL.

Lol, the two guys I was chasing yesterday on the first part of my ton could have easily got away.

 

[sittingbull]

I completed May's century yesterday. Almost a re-run of my Jan and Feb rides with a few detours and a chunk added on at the end. I climbed to the Cat & Fiddle Pub (1689 ft, the Horseshoe Pass was 1367 ft). 135 miles is a new distance best again

Superb weather all day and the tan lines on my legs were a little sore soaking in the bath afterwards.

A few photos from the day: