The Metric Century (100KM) A Month Challenge ChatZone

[Sbudge]

Well done, both @Sbudge @gbs last gasping.
I, too, truncated my ride on Saturday to get back for the rugby . My procrastinating fault: I should have set out an hour earlier.

Just one more to go for 2020, it's certainly been a tough one this year. I think I'll play it safe and try and get December's in early. The way this year has been going there will probably be an unexpected ban on left-side pedals or something!

 

[Sea of vapours]

I was intending to get it done today, in combination with the month's AAA audax. That plan fell through as the freezing level today was about 200m below my intended high point :-\ So tomorrow it is, when it will be a couple of degrees warmer though also windier and raining a bit. Hmph.

 

[Sea of vapours]

Done!

A lumpy 104km to complete a sixth year of this challenge. As ever, it's proved very useful in providing the motivation to do decent length rides fairly often. 75 centuries so far this year. Hmmm..... I'd quite like to get to 77 now that I've noticed that.

 

[ColinJ]

Done!

A lumpy 104km to complete a sixth year of this challenge. As ever, it's proved very useful in providing the motivation to do decent length rides fairly often. 75 centuries so far this year. Hmmm..... I'd quite like to get to 77 now that I've noticed that.

Congratulations - a splendid effort!

It does go some way towards explaining why you always blow me away on the annual Dales/Bowland forum rides... (Apart from having a few years on your side too, of course... )

I still have time to double my tally for the year by...






... riding a second one!

 

[ColinJ]

As ever, it's proved very useful in providing the motivation to do decent length rides fairly often. 75 centuries so far this year.

I think that I might have asked you this before, but I can't remember your answer... Do you almost exclusively do metric century (plus) rides, or do you often nip out and do shorter riders on the days in between?

I can just about imagine doing 75 x 100 km in a year but I would want/need to be resting most of the rest of the time if I did that many. Maybe very short local rides on rest days, but no further than 10-20 kms.

 

[Sea of vapours]

Do you almost exclusively do metric century (plus) rides, or do you often nip out and do shorter riders on the days in between?

Looking at my signature line, I seem to have done about double the number of rides as I have metric centuries, and most of those shorter ones are in the 50-70km range. Once it gets much beyond that I tend to make it 100km. I rarely do less than 50km as the cleaning of me / bike / clothes feels like too much of an overhead for really short rides. About a third or a half of those short rides are intervals (not the whole thing; just part of it!). Next year I think I'll try to go up very steep things faster and cut back on distance as a result since I don't think going up the likes of White Shaw Moss or Langcliffe Scar fast is compatible with doing long distances as well.

 

[ColinJ]

Looking at my signature line, I seem to have done about double the number of rides as I have metric centuries, and most of those shorter ones are in the 50-70km range. Once it gets much beyond that I tend to make it 100km. I rarely do less than 50km as the cleaning of me / bike / clothes feels like too much of an overhead for really short rides. About a third or a half of those short rides are intervals (not the whole thing; just part of it!). Next year I think I'll try to go up very steep things faster and cut back on distance as a result since I don't think going up the likes of White Shaw Moss or Langcliffe Scar fast is compatible with doing long distances as well.

Ah, I was using my phone earlier in portrait mode so I couldn't see the signature .

I need to do some serious cycling digit-extraction soon or I will be sinking into decrepitude, a fate which I really do not want!

Steep, long and fast - definitely NOT! (Well, definitely not for older non-drug-taking amateurs... )

 

[Donger]

Congratulations to everyone who has completed this year's challenge. I dipped out during the first lockdown ..... which was a hard decision after a run of 63 consecutive months. I intend to give it another go next year, and at least I managed to find a new recruit for you this year in @KingswayRider. (He completed it today, by the way). Well done all.

 

[Sbudge]

2020 done with a bit of a 'mare of a ride. O degrees average, loads of mud, fog and a country lane finish after dark. But very happy to get there, thanks for everyone's support. Apparently next year will be easier!

 

[KingswayRider]

I decided to get in 100k today as the weather report didn't seem too bad. Although it was cold, it was meant to be light winds & dry. Finished up with a peak temperature of 3 degrees & raining...glad I'd knitted up in extra layers to keep warm at social ride pace. Rain was getting through lower legs of my sorpasso bib tights & consequently running down to my feet by the time I got home.
Better to persevere today than find later weeks are high winds/snow etc & spoil my chances. I'll blame @Donger for being out completing the challenge, given that he talked me into it.
2020 complete...hoping 2021 will be easier (shocking start to the year & just about squeezed out a 100k per month, before piling them in later in the year).

 

[Sbudge]

Rain was getting through lower legs of my sorpasso bib tights & consequently running down to my feet by the time I got home.

At least you didn't make my rookie error of wearing waterproof socks ...when that happens you end up with two bags of water on your feet!

 

[KingswayRider]

At least you didn't make my rookie error of wearing waterproof socks ...when that happens you end up with two bags of water on your feet!

Had I known it was going to rain I'd have fastened the tights on the outside of the overshoes...keeps the feet dry for longer that way. Shoes weren't too bad...damp merino socks, but tights had done their job & kept most of the rain out.

 

[KingswayRider]

Important stuff...how do I get the little star for my signature to say metric century challenge completed 2020?

 

[ColinJ]

Important stuff...how do I get the little star for my signature to say metric century challenge completed 2020?

Just highlight somebody else's and copy and paste it into your signature.

I'll check that it works...

Yes!

 

[ColinJ]

PS In case it isn't obvious, the option to edit your signature is in the menu that drops down when you click your forum name, above right.