hour before work, hour at lunch, 2 hours after work = 2500ft only 22% complete with 4 days to go. Not likely 🙁
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 🙂
A mix of on and off road today. 72% done now.
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Still at the halfway point. About ten miles in Central London yesterday gave me all of 60m ascent.
I did however discover that Boris Bikes are like Daleks in that they don't like stairs, at least descending them...
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.
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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!
bouncy bike tomorrow, as it's been road up to now. Hopefully GT black and red, should put me to within a few hundred metres.
It's slipped from my grasp.
Literally a mountain to climb before Sunday.
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!
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.
A friend is currently out in the Pyrenees and she did about the same amount of climbing as I did today (1750 ish metres).
Only difference is that she did it in one 20 mile spin from her hotel up to the summit of Tourmalet; it took me 54 miles round the Peak District...
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.
I've done 16% and most of that was riding up down the one hill close to fifty times.
Climbing challenges are not easy when you live in Suffolk.
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)
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Finished yesterday, 11,075m, including col d'izoard, col du telegraphe, col du galibier, col du mont cenis and col du montgenevre. Some epic views
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.
Does anybody actually buy the jersey??
I don't think anyone does.
Did see some guy on a Sportive who was wearing the lightweight Pantani jersey (the pink Rapha one). Oh how I laughed!
He had the last laugh though. It was around 30 degrees C and I had a wool base layer on. More fool me.
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)
Apparently you only need one ride to do it, can't say that many repeats appeal though....
http://app.strava.com/activities/170023741
This sort of challenge is a bit tough in Suffolk. Reckon I'd be riding non stop for days to get it all in. 😯
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).
At that point I just decided to go for a ride....
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.
i'm out, was ill this week...
FINISHED!! 🙂
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.
+1'that ^^
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.
All completed. The weather certainly made it easier.
Shedbrewed/Thom, rather you than me on those nasty climbs!!
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.
Well done to those of you who have already finished - that's very impressive!
I've got 1300m to do tomorrow and I'm done!
The weather has certainly helped this year (apart from last Saturday when I was wetter than an otter's pocket and only managed 500m)!
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.
Done! Whoo! That was a hard week.
Had to get back home to pick my wife and daughter up.
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All done now, 8857 metres. Maybe a few more hills tomorrow. 😉
Grrrr finished this today but strava says I havent 😥
No 75% Badge, or 100% completed badge or anything 😡
Big day in Wales today. Weather was amazeballs. Mostly.
900m to go. And I am not looking forward to another day on the hills tomorrow. Legs are smashed.
Finished this evening, glad it's over for another year, but now have quite a few hills I enjoy more, as going up them has been getting easier; the descents have been getting faster as well, although my arms started to give out on the Holme Moss to Woodhead Pass today.
Club run today and as I finished it yesterday I thought it'd be a nice steady flattish ride to the cafe. 62 miles and another 1000m done.
Fed up of hills now.
Total climbed is a smidge shy of Moomans though at 9873m
I also retract my previous statement on the tee shirt. $35 PLUS $25 postage! GTF
Finished. Nice of the weather to bookend the scorching sunshine of the week with torrential rain. Wanted to make it a special fun ride but legs and weather dictated a fairly boring road ride, took my months total to over 1000km.
Just emailed Rapha to saw i wanted a t-shirt but $25 for delivery. Why don't they send all the UK to rapha uk and distribute from there?
Woke up this morning feeling lousy with 2,000m to go in 35º heat. So I cheated 🙂
Clicking the 'fix elevation' button for the rides I did gave me an extra 3,000m. Although as cheats seldom prosper, it took a few hours to process so I had to go out and struggle round a local hilly loop anyway.
No worse than doing it with the smartphone app though. Hats off to the Japanese guy currently sitting on almost 62km of hill reps, but as he's used Android it must smart a bit for the Aussie in 2nd who's done it with a barometric Garmin.
Well done Thom. I too don't want to see another hill for a couple weeks at least.
$60 for a t shirt !!
the Aussie in 2nd who's done it with a barometric Garmin.
Just noticed he's used the iphone app. 😳
Grrrr finished this today but strava says I haventNo 75% Badge, or 100% completed badge or anything
You did click the "Join Challenge" button on Strava before you got going didn't you? ❓
I went out again today - was nice just to ride without worrying about finding all the local hills or anything but I still did 1800m over 62 miles round the Yorkshire Dales on the CX bike.
Taking my total to 10,747m. 🙂
Just emailed Rapha to saw i wanted a t-shirt but $25 for delivery. Why don't they send all the UK to rapha uk and distribute from there?
Because Rapha simply put their name to it and supply the roundels, Strava do the actual processing of the rides and any apparel that goes with it and that comes from San Francisco...
completed it today with a cracking ride in the Lake District taking in the three passes (Garburn, Gatesgarth and Nan Bield) finished up doing 30800ft overall
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You did click the "Join Challenge" button on Strava before you got going didn't you?
Fixed it by deleting and re uploading all my rides, all done now 🙂
Not doubting it crazy-legs but the roundel doesn't arrive with international postage on it. Afaik
