[Closed] anyone ridden a ton recently?

Knocking out regular 100's at the moment, one every two weeks or so if time allows. I find I warm up properly after 70 miles.

Yup, on the way to Paris on Sunday

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It's on my list of targets for this year, but after a good start on the road bike, I've hardly used it of late.
I like your idea of being dropped off 100miles away though!

I've just added it to my list of things to do before the end of this year, we just toured through France where we were doing 55-60 miles a day fully loaded up for touring, so I reckon a century has to be done!

Got one (on road) as a sportive a week on Saturday.

Wish me luck - it's my first.

(I'm in training for a Leeds-Manchester-Leeds 120mile 2700m cancer charity ride)

That "a" makes all the difference, doesn't it?

That "a" makes all the difference, doesn't it?

Mrs Ton?

Oh. 😳

Did one a couple of months ago on the cross type bike. 50 on road, the 50 off. I rode started off with a big group from work, rode east along the south coast. Pancake flat and with a tailwind to boot. Up to Ditchling Beacon, said goodbye to the group, dropped a few PSI out of the tyres and headed off on my own onto the SDW and into the wind. 48T single ring up front. 50 of the easiest miles I've ever ridden followed by 50 of the hardest!

Have a chuckle at the elevation trace:

https://www.strava.com/activities/315024407

Getting dropped off is a good idea. I find it more rewarding and interesting if the A to B are different locations, rather than out and back or circular on roads you already know.

Visiting friends or relatives a good distance away works quite well too.
My girlfriends aunt is about 100miles away on the coast so I set off on the bike in the morning and my girlfriend started driving down in the afternoon (with a cross over pickup point if it goes horribly wrong). Great ride with new to me roads and the relatives were impressed too, plenty of cake and tea once I arrived 🙂

Got a couple of these relative rides lined up soon, not done anything over 80miles since BBF.

Did 100 km off road last weekend if that counts? Would have been fine but the weather was properly nasty.

176km on road in La Marmotte beginning of July.

235km all off road on Bontrager 24 last weekend.

Both good fun, but I do ride my bike rather a lot!

Did rtts, it was fine although I was getting a bit tired and sore legs for the last 20 miles or so- should've put my leg warmers on at the last stop but they were stashes in an inconvenient location... Was nice though.

Get bored after 50/60 miles, go for quality over quantity these days.

My last three Saturdays have consisted of a 200miler, a 100miler and a 167miler. The last one was definitely the hardest, even though the 200 included going over the passes of Hardknott, Wrynose and Kirkstone (via the struggle) then up and down great dun fell. Unsurprisingly her who must be obeyed has said I'm banned off the bike this weekend 😕 😥

I did three in June, the first was accidental and I didn't eat or drink enough and finished in a bit of a state. The second was the South Downs Way, and was ok, tough, but expected. the third was actually 300 miles, physically the easiest for sure, but mentally tough.

Like to do at least one century a year to remind myself I still can!

I did 2 this month, Dunwich Dynamo and a loop around Suffolk in the rain last weekend. A steady pace will see it through, I went a bit too quickly last weekend and suffered from cramp at the end which mad the hills in the last 5 or 6 miles fun.

Like to do at least one century a year to remind myself I still can

But 3 in one day is just plain [s]silly [/s]greedy. 😉

Best I've managed this year is about 86 miles so need to get one in soon.

300 miles. Bloody hell, I think I'd get lost in my own head. It's the looping thoughts that force me home at the 120ish mile mark.

I've done two in my life - sdw and a 200km audax

no plans to do any more, though my mates have taken to doing a "spring classic sportive" every year and at least that's sort of interesting

Was aimiming to an imperial century a month this year, but circumstances have meant it hasn't happened. Got a few 75 milers in.

Need to get one in before the year end though.

Just take it steady, enjoy the ride, eat proper food. Break it into 3 x 35 mile rides with a couple of cafes at the break points.

Also known as audaxing!

I've done 100 off road a couple of times (Trans-Cambrian in a day and Kielder 100). I attempted Manx 100 on Sunday but epic conditions resulted in me only completing 100km. Off-road you get battered more which takes its toll on your body.

But 3 in one day is just plain [s]silly[/s] greedy.

Just think, I've spared two other people the need to do one!

300 miles. Bloody hell, I think I'd get lost in my own head. It's the looping thoughts that force me home at the 120ish mile mark.

It was a point to point, which helped (Horsham in Sussex to Liverpool via London and Manchester), and there were 6 of us, with a support van. I did have a bit of a 'moment' somewhere in Bedfordshire when we'd only done 100 miles, it was 1am and I was cold! Was fine though, just kept plodding on, wasn't quick at all. Moving average was 15mph I think, with a couple of hours of stops cumulatively.

I think I'd get lost in my own head. It's the looping thoughts...

Mine quieten down after about 8 hours by myself. It's the best reason I know for doing long rides or hikes. I think after a few weeks I'd probably be positively zen.

🙂

If you're getting dropped off, so doing it one way, make sure you take the wind direction in to account. A headwind for 100 miles is soul destroying.

I rode the national 400km AUDAX last week. I found it tough going, but the route was fantastic: Dingwall to Lairg, past Loch Shin and the great grey slab of Foinaven, then north to Furness, round Loch Eribol and across the very north of the mainland to Strathy, then down the strath to Kildonan, over the hill dodging the jumping deer to the coast, through Golspie, back over to Lairg and finally grinding back up the Struie as dawn broke over the Dornoch Firth and home to Dingwall. Fantastic bunch of volunteers dishing up hot meals in wee village halls in the middle of nowhere, and £35 to enter.

I have to say that it wasn't so long back that Ton had serious health issues. He's no spring chicken and does not have a natural cyclists build (no offence).
I find that fact that he's just going to go out and smash a hundred miles pretty damn inspirational.
Well done Ton, I admire your outlook.

Loads,

It is a nice challenge. As people always say if your head is in the right place and you pace yourself and eat properly it is not that hard if you can manage shorter rides of 60-70miles.

Plan a nice café stop and it become two 50 miles rides. Make sure you leave plenty of time then you can be relaxed about pacing. Check out a route so that the you don't hit a massive hill at 90 miles.

Longest for me so far is 300miles. Again, a head game. Good company and a strategy to break it down helped as well as the one way train ticket that meant we had to ride back.

Maybe look for an Audax (you don't strike me as a sportive person 😉 to get a good route, have company and make it an event.

Did my first ever imperial century on my charity coast to coast two weeks ago. 104 miles with almost 8000 feet of climbing. I was tired but not as tired as I thought I'd be. The biggest problem we had was timing - we were shepherding a less experienced cyclist at the beginning of the ride so it took us 5 hours to do the first 40 miles, then he went it alone and we took 5 hours to do the remaining 60 (with most of the climbing)

https://www.strava.com/activities/350261350
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Yes, as an A to B mainly off road on easy tracks last week. The weather was rotten, which actually turned out to be a blessing as it meant I kept going (no stops for coffe etc) and there were few walkers around to slow down for. I went for the start out quite fast approach, on the basis that if I start slow I never get any quicker. Mentally it was quite easy as it was a new route for me so plenty of interest along the way.

Good luck with it, always nice to tick past 100miles but the route and conditions probably matter more in terms of difficulty.

Miles? No. Never.

First in a long time tomorrow all being well, would love to be doing a couple a month but generally run out of time for more than 100k on one weekend morning.

I rode my last 100 in 2012, rode back from BBB in Bransgore, New Forest, to Stroud, Glos. via Salisbury Plain on CX bike. Took 6.5hrs. Last miles were spent envisaging my fish and chips, only to find the chippy closed when I got there 🙁 no food in the house either as we'd been away.

Recently rode 55 miles mainly off road on steep techy trails in 6hr45min, I reckon it equalled my 100 on the road.

Only ever done 2 centuries, a 130 from Stranraer to Edinburgh for fun and a 112 in an Ironman.

Quite enjoyed them but never organised motivated to do more, tho I would be had I got into the Puffer 🙁

I was doing them fairly regularly a few years back but do more off-road riding these days. My pace is fairly relaxed and not pushing too hard at the start always helps. Sportives are a classic for some folk going off hard, them disappearing into the distance and then me overtaking them some way before the end. Longest single day would be something like 160 miles?

I always fancied the Audax idea but I don't think I'm in the right age-group - yet.

Exmouth Exodus this weekend (Bath to Exmouth as an overnight ride), should be good fun and it's just over 100, bacon butties on the seafront will be welcome 🙂

Did 172km (180 according to the organisers) around the ring of kerry with ~11K other riders 4th july on an alfined pompino.

Was the easiest Ton I've done (tbf my other tons are only the wicklow 200 and there is too much steep stuff for the way the bike is geared with my heftyness).

all good

Racing career over druid?

🙂 before it began Al.

Did my first one last month, Ride to the Sun, Carlilse to Edinburgh. Was generally flat and it was fine, I didn't feel overly stretched at all.

Road a windy, hilly 56 miles from Jedburgh to haltwhistle recently and that was much harder.

I am supposed to be riding 100 miles on Monday. I have never ridden that distance and I have been ill all week meaning I haven't been out on a bike.

Also I am heading south to Cirencester from Leicester and the forecast is for a 16mph south westerly 😕

It's not looking good.

Did my first ever 100 miler last month in Romania while touring in Eastern Europe. Really chuffed with myself TBH. 10 days into a 1000 mile tour, panniers, 35 degrees and no help from the wind.

Just checked my LeJoG stats.

Day 1: 114
Day 2: 94
Day 3: 101
Day 4: 102
Day 5: 111
Day 6: 102
Day 7: 111
Day 8: 111
Day 9: 164
Day 10: 63

😆

I had a great time when I did it 100 miles on my 26" HT. Picked the flattest route possible, had a full cooked breakfast 20 miles in at a sainsburys. Finished in good time but was dismayed to get home to find I'd only done 99.2 miles so I cycled down the canal for a bit and then back again, so when you look at my strava report my longest ever ride is exactly 100 miles.