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New Metric Century Challenge

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  • November 1, 2009 at 12:01 pm #12017
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    We have completed the first years Metric Century Challenge, and I have a few suggestions.

    Should we start a new thread for this years challenge to keep it neat and tidy. Also start a new metric century chat thread too.

    I think we should not worry about getting in one scoring ride every month, that way it is a bit more inclusive, and people won’t feel like they can’t join in if they either miss a month or don’t see it until later in the year.

    Lastly, can I claim longest ride – 225.3km

    Highest score in a month – June, 7 points

    Highest total score – 54 points

    That was a good year, and the challenge meant there were times when I used it as a good excuse to put in more miles, and times when it forced me to stay out when I really fancied going home…

    I have a few challenges this coming year that require me to get some good miles in, so will be in again this year.

    What did I win Tony and Dave?

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  • November 2, 2010 at 7:29 pm #631953
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    Anonymous

    Nice to see you post Peter s
    Nice to see you post Peter s 1944, I see your totals rising meteorically regularly, so nice to find out a bit about you.

    Your ride stats are indeed very impressive, mine conversely have fallen off, what with a new job with longer hours, and a real struggle to get into a new routine.

    Great work at returning to such good physical health after your quad by-pass, just wish you hadn’t trashed me quite so categorically!

    November 2, 2010 at 2:47 pm #631951
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    peter s 1944

    Sorry, Dasy…will let you
    Sorry, Dasy…will let you have the longest ride, but my 90 points and 10 counting rides in the month of October seem to outweigh your totals somewhat. Not bad for a pensioner enjoying life after a quadruple heart by-pass some 9 years ago!

    November 1, 2010 at 9:40 am #631949
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    STATO

    Blackhound wrote:First big

    Blackhound wrote:
    First big project is the Tour Divide is 2011!

    Jealous!

    Got my October 100k in, a horrid, cold, windy ride i didnt bring enough food for and enjoyed not a bit. Took all the strength out my legs and meant i was crawling round the CX race on Sunday. Suppose thats the price you pay for leaving it so late into the month.

    Since this is the end of the official chalenge i should be pleased but i only started in Jan so i still have 2 more months to complete to achieve my goal of 1 a month, at least they will count towards the next Road.cc metric century challenge tho.

    October 6, 2010 at 9:00 pm #631947
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    demoff

    Got my October metric in
    Got my October metric in today with Peter S, stayed dry although it was a slog into the wind at times. Work is going to limit me for the rest of the month but I am sure he will crack off a few more.

    October 6, 2010 at 8:02 pm #631945
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    Blackhound

    Got in my 100km for October
    Got in my 100km for October in today – a midweek one for a chance in glorious sunshine.

    For the last six months I have been working my redundancy notice and today was my first day ‘free’. Tomorrow I go on holiday for 3 weeks so will not get another chance in October – so I have managed a metric century for two years in a row – along with DaSy.

    (Redundancy was a good thing for me, I was about to resign anyway and they beat me to it by a month – I get a nice fat cheque after 34 years service man and boy.)

    So now got my pension to spend – enough to keep me on and off road. First big project is the Tour Divide is 2011!

    September 12, 2010 at 8:18 pm #631943
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    Congratulations Stato, agree
    Congratulations Stato, agree with DaSy that that is a tough assignment. K100 was on my list for 2011 but this week I have been invited to a wedding on that weekend next year. What is worse is that he is a mtb’er!

    Got two in this month. Last weekend my chain broke an hour from home. I did not have my chain tool with me, though I did have a spare link. My compananion pushed me to Carsington bike hire to fix – I deducted the mileage from my daily total.

    Today went to watch ToB on Hollinsclough.

    September 12, 2010 at 4:04 pm #631941
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    Anonymous

    Way to go STATO, 100 miles of
    Way to go STATO, 100 miles of off-road is good going no matter what the times is!

    I managed a reasonable 80+ miles today, the first ride that I have felt anything like myself for a couple of months.

    September 10, 2010 at 9:44 am #631939
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    STATO

    Managed my September ride
    Managed my September ride already, 104m (thats miles!) of the Kielder 100 mountian bike event. Lovely day and some great riding (apart from the Kielder sections of singletrack). Took me a dissapointing 12+hrs tho, was having back pain issues so had to keep stopping to stretch, it did mean however that my legs were pretty fresh for the whole thing.

    Rich

    September 9, 2010 at 7:53 pm #631937
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    i had a rather pleasant ride
    i had a rather pleasant ride myself, great weather, gentle pootle down the strawberry line and then an all or nothing slog up cheddar gorge, back down the old bristol road, back up (to the mendips) fro wooky hole by the ebbor gorge road and then a skirt down to Ubley round Nempnett Thrubwell, and back home. job done for sept, except the circum navigation of the Avon Cycleway on the 26th with the CTC (plus many cake stops).

    and next time i’m in Bath i’ll check out Cadence cycles… seeing as i’ve not been there, BTW DaSy if yer ever in Bristol ‘Strada’ is the bike shop to go to..

    September 9, 2010 at 5:07 pm #631935
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    Anonymous

    A tough ride today, that on
    A tough ride today, that on paper should have been pretty easy.

    I rode from Reading down the A4 to Bath to catch up with some friends in Cadence Cycles on Chelsea Rd.

    The problem was that it was a straight 70 plus miles in a straight line, but today it was into a pretty stiff and incessant headwind, three and a half hours of hard work. Then a few more miles on the way back to catch up with a mate who drove me back home.

    Cadence Cycles is a really nice shop by the way, the way a bike shop should look, very cool but still approachable, if you haven’t been then it’s well worth a visit.

    July 26, 2010 at 6:53 pm #631933
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    dave atkinson

    the lanes up to the bridge
    the lanes up to the bridge are nice and quiet, and you can either follow the signposted route to the bridge (which takes you onto the western path via a slightly convoluted route) or ride towards the services (round the roundabout at the M48 junction) and skip onto the eastern path just before you get to them, that’s the moped route. after that there’s a decent cycle path as far as the big chepstow roundabout, watch out for glass on the underpasses though đŸ™‚

    July 26, 2010 at 5:16 pm #631931
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    Anonymous

    That’s great Dave, thanks.
    I
    That’s great Dave, thanks.

    I have never cycled over the Severn Bridge, so was always a bit iffy about the route over that. I would join your route from the A420 out of Chippenham, and probably peal off onto the old Sarn Helen road up over the Devils Elbow and down the old Glyn Neath road to Neath and onto Skewen.

    I have been talking about riding down for ages, so might try and get that done pretty soon.

    July 26, 2010 at 2:48 pm #631929
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    dave atkinson

    from there you can go over
    from there you can go over that climb just north of ystradgynlais or the one out the back of the town, they both go to the neath road.

    July 26, 2010 at 2:47 pm #631927
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    dave atkinson

    more or less. i didn’t follow
    more or less. i didn’t follow it to the letter, particularly the bit where i was cycling behind two shapely ladies and i went about five miles up the wrong road out of chepstow đŸ™‚

    the bit round the back of the brecons is jolly lovely though, chepstow to abergavenny is pan flat apart from the first climb and then you follow the brecon canal to pencelli before hitting the lanes

    July 26, 2010 at 2:29 pm #631925
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    Anonymous

    Dave – have you got GPX of
    Dave – have you got GPX of that route to Ystradgynlais? I plan to ride there (well Neath via there) from Reading, and that sounds like a good route.
    Si.

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