The Metric Century (100KM) A Month Challenge ChatZone

[Dogtrousers]

I'm on a roll! Another one today. Took a flask of coffee and rewarded myself for the first hill with a pork pie and coffee breakfast by the duck pond in Four Elms. Rode to Kidd's Hill, which is where the Winne-the-Pooh books were set. I ate marmalade sandwiches there in a kind of Paddington/Pooh confusion. Lovely day for cycling.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Think I might be a bit sore tomorrow!

30 November: 101k Club Ride - Dunfermline, Kelty, Glenfarg, Falkland, Glenrothes, Kinglassie, Lochgelly, Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline (31 points)

Pleased to see you weren't too sore.

 

[Fubar]

Pleased to see you weren't too sore.

Yeah, all healing nicely thanks! Weather too good to waste

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Yeah, all healing nicely thanks! Weather too good to waste

Glad to know, really is.

On a lighter note, which day is the soup due? I go in to hospital and week tomorrow and I've wouldn't want you to arrive at the wrong location. The hospital is much closer to Scotland and only just off the M56... So it should be easier to find and you won't need to key hose your bike down after cycling down or lane to the farm

 

[Fubar]

Glad to know, really is.

On a lighter note, which day is the soup due? I go in to hospital and week tomorrow and I've wouldn't want you to arrive at the wrong location. The hospital is much closer to Scotland and only just off the M56... So it should be easier to find and you won't need to key hose your bike down after cycling down or lane to the farm

Hmmm, slight delay on the soup front (on account that I've not set off yet and not persuaded the resident veggie to make it), but if you are going into hospital I could aim to have some down to you - oxtail, wasn't it...?!?

Now, where did I put my Tupperware panniers...

 

[Fubar]

December's 100k - done! That's the 100k per month challenge completed for 2014 and my 17th month in a row with at least one 100k ride - I'll dedicate 2014's rides to @SatNavSaysStraightOn who would have smashed it but had to pull out due to unforeseen circumstances. Now just to hit 5000 miles for the year then roll on January!!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

December's 100k - done! That's the 100k per month challenge completed for 2014 and my 17th month in a row with at least one 100k ride - I'll dedicate 2014's rides to @SatNavSaysStraightOn who would have smashed it but had to pull out due to unforeseen circumstances. Now just to hit 5000 miles for the year then roll on January!!

Sadly I suspect i won't be able to participate in a full year next year either, but as and when I can return, I will even if it is in a hand cranked trike recumbent... Just don't ask me how I would get that to Scotland in march! (we have a saloon, but it does have a towbar!) still hoping to be able to get away with a road trike if the balance issues don't resolve themselves, or more accurately the foot down issues. Cycling is high on my list of getting resolved simply because it is my transport.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I didn't start logging on this thread until a month ago. But if I had, I wouldn't be celebrating 12 months, because I missed out February.
Tough hilly ride today. Took me 6 and a quarter hours to do the 100k. Maybe I should spend less time talking to the ducks ...

Ducks at Four Elms

• Dogtrousers
• 21 Dec 2014

 

[SimonJKH]

That's me done. It's been great fun. I've had my most epic year of cycling, and keeping up with this challenge has been a big factor in that. Thanks to everyone who clicked 'like' on my updates - just thinking that there were people out there seeing my progress really helped me make the effort to keep it going (extra thanks to @SatNavSaysStraightOn who often clicked through the links to give me Strava kudos as well. That's going the extra mile )
The plan originally was to move on the imperial century a month next year, but I've talked myself into entering a marathon in the spring so long rides will give way to long runs for a while...
Good luck to anyone yet to finish!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Was anyone wanting a new thread for this new year for the actual results part rather than the chatzone? As with the imperial one? I can move the few January entries over and rename the threats of wanted?

 

[Fubar]

Was anyone wanting a new thread for this new year for the actual results part rather than the chatzone? As with the imperial one? I can move the few January entries over and rename the threats of wanted?

Sounds like a plan, I think it would help kick off the incentive for the new year.

Can I ask, without wanted to stir up any previous controversy (and obviously ignoring that I have completed a full year ) why the imperial century riders get a star and the metrics just get a virtual "pat on the back"?

Whilst not as big an achievement as 100miles PM I still think, for some of us it's a worthwhile goal that when completed deserves to be acknowledged.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Perhaps we can come up with a suitable award of our own? I have no knowledge of the history of it, I'm sure @ianrauk will know but what could we award for those who have completed it?

A silver star? A gold star outline (rather than a solid gold star)?

 

[ianrauk]

I have no idea about why the metric doesn't get an award.
I took over the imperial ride thread from someone else a few years back and it always had a gold star award.

A silver star would be a good idea. or how about a glittery one :-)

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I have no idea about why the metric doesn't get an award.
I took over the imperial ride thread from someone else a few years back and it always had a gold star award.

A silver star would be a good idea. or how about a glittery one :-)
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Ooooh, shiny!

It would be nice to have something so we can lord it over others record the achievement.

 

[Fubar]

Ooooh, shiny!

It would be nice to have something so we can lord it over others record the achievement.

That never crossed my mind...