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Mike - I assume the right-hand one is the actual times - no?
Left hand sticker was super-optimistic 10mph average 🙂
Mike was 10mph your average speed or is that what is/was required??
The cut offs were based around an 8mph average. I actually managed 7.1 in the end.
Ouch, just done the sums - assuming 50 miles up and 50 down (reasonable starting assumption given it starts and finishes in the same place), 15,000 feet is an average 5.7% gradient - for 50 miles all in.
Why did I enter this again?
I only recorded about 11,500 feet of climbing on my Polar if accurate - which I doubt given the previous posts! Did every one else get circa 15,000 feet?
Please can Glenn be right
Just signed up!
Now trying to combine some other events into a gradual buildup to focus the training a bit.
Being a complete numpty, I was planning on doing this on a Wolf Trail, take it that's going to be a bit heavy?
NUMPTY ALERT
*runs away from the computer*
32:18 on my SS 29er last year.
Holy random thread resurrection Batman!
In my very humble opinion it's not worth doing any rides over 75-80 miles in training - better off doing plenty 5-7 hour rides at a good pace. Big miles often equals a higher chance of injury.
Yesp, that'd be me.
R knee now in re-hab. Damn.
FWIW - I think something like 4 laps of Dalby's Red route will give you a taste of the kind of punishment you'll encounter. If you manage 4 without much trouble with a decent lap time, the MKielder 100 should be be manageable.
Last year I rode a HT, this year a full sus' since it simply makes life a little easier on the body.