Nice. Just over 11,000ft of climbing in the FIRST 60 miles of the Kielder 100.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/12738275
that map brings it all back, GULP....
got the northern rock cyclone this weekend, thats 105 miles, C2C in one day in two weeks, thats 140ish and solo 10 at kirroughtree in july. getting there slowly, but nowhere near where I wanted to be, thanks to new baby!
good luck Sos ha ha 😆
in the bag son, in the bag!! 😈
Any idea of what the last 40 miles will be like? As thats where you will really feel it!
I'm not overly concerned about it
I'll just keep riding until I either finish, I can't go on any further or they make me stop
No big deal whichever way it pans out
Yeah, it'll be reet.
last 40 miles is the same, the last climb up to the boardwalk is brutal, although not massively long, they'll be a lot of walkers at that point!
***although its worth mentioning that Simon, the bloke who plans the course is definitely changing it, he's been out with the FC (who he works for) to get the go ahead for new sections of 'off piste' stuff and the word is its harder than last year
word is its harder than last year
Why???????
Would appear to be hard enough..................
Would appear to be hard enough..................
I finished it with naff all preparation (really) while, probably, in the midst of an asthma 'episode.
It's not that hard. Well, it wasn't last year 🙂
Should be ok on my postbike(3 gears) will be taking my mud guards off though!
Well, my training officially started today. Well, I commuted on the bike so that is the first 10 miles in the bag, another 10 miles home and it will have been about 1300 feet of climbing.
OK, it will all have been on road and a third of the climbing per mile, but I gotta start somewhere!
Nearly a 14 mph average so am fairly happy for a first run, just needs to translate into an 8 mph average off road over the next 88 days, thats all...
Nice. Just over 11,000ft of climbing in the FIRST 60 miles of the Kielder 100.
I read that and had dreams of the last 40 miles being downhill!
I've put a thread up about a ride on June 20th at Kielder by the way. Make it official and spread the word.
Warton, what time you starting the Cyclone, drop me an email if you fancy meating up bayley.jon @ gmail.com
I'll be starting early (registering on Friday) and aiming for 6-6.5 hours unless I can find some people to work with.
oh...................................guess one week training in May in the pryenees will not be enough.............oh worried now
So the guy who did 60 miles did ~11,000' of climbing & so did the guy who did 100 miles 😕
I guess the GPS units suffered a bit under the trees
Yup Uplink there's another who finished did 12,500 feet.
If they had clicker the Elevation Correction on their routes it would give a true reading.
Yeah, it'll be reet.
You've been talking to terrahawk too much! ;0)
jonb, there 4 of us doing the 100, doubt we'll be close to 6 hours though, more like 7 and a bit. not sure of start times as yet, prob 8ish though
You've been talking to terrahawk too much! ;0)
It'll be more reet for Jase than it will be for me 🙂
one more step in my silly base training plan ....
week 1 - 140k off road
week 2 - 2 x 200k with 6000ft each
week 3 - 300k with 4500ft and 200k with 3000ft on road
week 4 - 300k with 15000ft climbing
week 5(this weekend) - 600k with as little climbing as possible
week 6 and 7 rest/gentle riding to work ....
My 'training' diary is at http://mactually.co.uk/
A pint of beetroot juice every day for the week before and you'll be fine 🙂