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  • November 4, 2011 at 3:37 pm #14450
    dave atkinson

    Want to chat about the Metric Century Challenge? Do it here! And not in the MCC scoring thread. Good luck for 2011-2012!

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  • September 8, 2012 at 2:42 pm #656929
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    Alan Tullett

    Lovely ride in Suffolk
    Lovely ride in Suffolk yesterday. Ham sandwiches in a field with a wonderful view, although the blackberry bushes all down the road were still unripe, so no free dessert!

    Suffolk cider in a friendly pub in Dalham in a little hollow with almost idyllic surroundings of brook and thatched cottages in bright sunshine, then down to Clare and a little tour around their country park, back through Steeple Bumpstead and Helions Bumpstead (Essex) (pretty place) and a final stop in a pub in Linton to refill the water bottle, have a cold lager and a bit of fruit cake before getting back to Cambridge. Big meal of steak, chips, lots of veg, cheese and biscuits, chocolate (well, I’d earned it). My daughter said she’d never seen me eat so much so quickly.

    Only passed one other rider in gear and had a chat with a lady on a bike in my first stop in Saxon Street when I had my OS map out on a hedge to decide which way to go. Used the Bryton I won on here to map the ride as I went along. Will ride more in that direction in future and explore a few more villages and pubs out there.

    August 15, 2012 at 1:02 pm #656927
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    Raleigh

    Wasn’t it Vaughters who said
    Wasn’t it Vaughters who said that you need to do at least 20,000 miles a year for 10 years before you can come close to thinking about doing the tour?

    An average of 55 miles a day.

    :”(

    August 15, 2012 at 9:45 am #656925
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    Parlee-king

    I was talking to a clubman
    I was talking to a clubman who is legendary mile muncher about the MCC last week.

    knowing he records his rides religiously in a log book, baring in mind this would be his standard ride pattern and not influenced by just doing a few extra to get a MCC in (something I’ve started doing ..the shame of it)

    I asked him how many MCCs he had completed since last Halloween…and also how many months since you DIDN’T do a MCC.

    56 so far this period….. and he looked back as far as Jan 2004 and in only in one (winter) month had he not done a MCC. That particular month his longest ride was just 95km

    Lucky for the leaders of the challenges he doesn’t have that internet stuff to join in the fun….but he does have 850,000 km in his legs

    August 3, 2012 at 9:31 pm #656923
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    Raleigh

    No, but lets say everyone who
    No, but lets say everyone who does one on there gets Kudos from everyone else.

    Just click that button.

    August 3, 2012 at 9:03 pm #656921
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    37monkey

    Will the metric century be
    Will the metric century be moving to strava?

    July 2, 2012 at 9:16 am #656919
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    Racer Z

    Do cycling in the early
    B-) Do cycling in the early morning recently,the summer comes,hot in the afternoon~~

    July 2, 2012 at 9:12 am #656917
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    bigmel

    Get In !!
    Rode my first audax
    Get In !!
    Rode my first audax today, the Barbury Bash at a fully certified 210km.
    DID get overtaken by a man with a beard, wearing sandals . . .
    How do they do that?

    Feet up for 3 weeks now during the TdeF

    July 1, 2012 at 11:35 am #656915
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    Raleigh

    Did my first 100k today, went
    Did my first 100k today, went up to see the Dunwich Dynamo riders arriving, then just carried on by myself for 3 and a half hours.

    I think Sunday will become my ‘Metric Day’ now!

    June 21, 2012 at 10:03 am #656913
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    dave atkinson

    Bike Bath this weekend,
    Bike Bath this weekend, looking like it might be some kind of literal Bike Bath 😕

    June 21, 2012 at 9:16 am #656911
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    Darthshearer

    Well I have just joined and
    Well I have just joined and the weather isnt looking good for the weekend 🙁

    Sunday I am at the road nationals, thankfully have a day of next week and then next Saturday I have a trip to the Lakes planned for more biking 🙂

    June 20, 2012 at 8:46 pm #656909
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    themartincox

    its unlikely, but we shall
    its unlikely, but we shall see – time in the saddle has been severely curtailed for a while!

    think it might be time for 5am rides to start taking place!

    June 20, 2012 at 3:24 pm #656907
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    dave atkinson

    boom! parachuting in near the
    boom! parachuting in near the top

    can he keep it up though?

    😕

    June 20, 2012 at 2:45 pm #656905
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    themartincox

    Had a few minutes spare at
    Had a few minutes spare at work today so got around to filling in my ride details

    if I am honest, bunking off of work for 2 months has probably worked in my favour on this one!

    May 9, 2012 at 11:11 pm #656903
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    Organon

    I am currently training for
    I am currently training for the Great Manchester bike (42km) and already looking for my next challenge. I was counting up on the other thread and there are 23 people left in the challenge for every month.

    I though there would be more. Perhaps it’s quite hard 😕

    May 4, 2012 at 7:04 pm #656901
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    jayme

    Just completed Lands End to
    Just completed Lands End to John Groats. Very happy with 15 days of usable rides. 🙂 🙂

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