Another 1380mtrs (58miles) for me today. Halfway there now, out first thing tomorrow around the Trough of Bowland for a biggish ride so it’s looking promising for me to complete the challange 🙂
87% done now thanks to 1750m tonight. I’d planned a hillier route but actually didn’t quite realise how long the whole lot was so took a shorter way home.
54 miles in the lovely evening sun though. Quiet roads, good views. 🙂
64% now, got the cross bike out for some off road fun today as a break from the road stuff. Will try and do a few decent runs tomorrow and Sat and then a steady pace Sunday.
Another 3hrs only 28%, admitted defeat and just went for a ride rather than going up and down the same hill. There’s more to life! Next year if the weather is good I’ll be booking some time off and heading somewhere with proper hills!
Slow going for me this year, the last two editions coincided with me being in the Pyrenees and having it half done on the first day.
This year.. working and on a rest week so just tacking on extra climbs on the way to work, 70% done.
If I’d used a smartphone I’d have finished by now though!
56% done for me. Tough to get this donee down south. I’d give my left arm for a Col.
1100m done tonight, with a few hill reps. Finding it hard to get this done without dull reps unfortunately. A quick 500 tomorrow after work then maybe off to Wales on Saturday to get 2500+ in. Will still leave about 1400 on Sunday.
Now it’s been mentioned, think I’ll have to do that extra 48m.
Well I managed 81miles (2300mtrs) today round the Trough of Bowland. Even though I was out at 7am it was still hot, not a lot of shade on the fells 🙁 76% done now, another early morning ride tomorrow, rest day Saturday then finish off on my mtb doing the three passes in the Lake District. There’s light at the end of the tunnel 8)
Finished it on Sunday in the same bit of the world, including Col du Telegraphe, Col du Galibier, Col du Glandon, Col de la Croix de Fer and Col du Mollard. 2 rides and about 200km. It would have taken a bit longer at home in East Anglia…
Will finish it today, only 1000m left to take off.
Only a gentle spin of legs yesterday – so 50 mile ride up & down heads of valley will easy clear what’s left.
Been easier this year. Last year rain made it tougher to get out.
mooman, after crashing out of the last one I am totally buying the tee shirt.
I was surprised to see you not finish it already!
I’ve got a loop to Chepstow and maybe over the bridge for the heck of it late afternoon today, then Gospel Pass to Hay and back through Talgarth Sat. This means I can have a steady club run Sunday and not drag everyone up two mountains on their recreational ride again 😉
(Thom)
I worked out I needed to do something like 240 repeats of my local hill to achieve it in the most efficient time (something like 28hrs including get there and back).
I decided today that I’d like to get to 10,000m, it’s a nice benchmark figure. I’m at 7600 at the moment so 1200 tonight to hit the target then another 1200 at some point over the weekend should all be do-able.
Just done 1300m around the Goyt Valley which has taken me to 8940m total. Mostly road but I did two CX rides in there as well.
I’ll take tomorrow off then do a big CX ride on Sunday to get me to 10,000m.
Somehow it seemed easier than last year in spite of needing more climbing. Maybe the weather was better this time round? At least the long warm sunny evenings have made it easy to get out and living right on the edge of the Peak District, there’s no shortage of hills to choose from.
Did a huge effort the other night that took me to 900mtrs to go, then killed it off the other day. Loooong days and veery light nights has been totally awesomnez.
We have been blessed these last few weeks for sure.
I’ve still got 3300m to go, and it’s ebbing away from me slowly. I think an early blast tomorrow will get me 1000m, then a big ride on Sunday to pick up the rest. Some horrible repeats are required.
Done, dug in and did 8 laps of a local loop today to get my final 2000m. Relatively dull but I worked it out as I was averaging 7.5cm of climb a second.
Got in and found I was 13 metres short of the total so nipped up the road to get them.
Had a small crash on the second lap when descending through the lanes and found a tractor coming the other way after a blind chicane. I was really hoping to get this challenge done without a crash.
Thankfully by going into the verge and over the bars into the nettles I avoided going into the thresher tines that were blocking my way.
I hate nettles but I’m pretty sure I’d hate getting impaled on thresher tines more.