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I did the Bryan Chapman Memorial audax this weekend,610km. Furthest in 24 hours is 420km.
I did the HONC singlespeed 67 miles .
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120 at this year's Fred Whitton, Inc riding to from the start. That hurt as I'd not done enough training.
MCTD - I saw that Derbyshire loop and thought it was too much for 1day
Dave Lloyd mega challenge in snowdonia. 240km/5500m climbing including the hard side of the Bwlch-y-Groes… went back and did it the next year for some reason. Never again.
Furthest single day ride in one go was riding from home to a family autumn holiday at a house by Kishorn, having set off at about 5am from our place in Angus. That was about 203 miles; sketchiest moment was in the dark on the descent between Achnasheen and Achnashellach, where a stag jumped into the road in front of me and we almost met.. Dunno who got the biggest fright.
I do a similar ride every autumn, either northbound or southbound; might be Ullapool to home, home to Plockton via the Corrieyairick, just whatever the week's plan allows for.
Croix de Fer with flat bars, stubby bar ends, nice wheels and 32mm tyres.
For a lot of years I've provided on-trail medical response at an ultra on Speyside, so ride from home with kit, maybe northbound over the Cairn o Mount on a Friday heading for Lossiemouth, ride up and down the Speyside Way course all day Saturday, then ride home via Tomintoul and Braemar on the Sunday for a well over 300 mile weekend. For that, I'll put 35mm gravel tyres on, as the course is off-road and that's the priority. Great fun.
Mtb 105. South Downs way
Road 82. Ride to the start of the club Sunday long ride, and back.
Pre-Strava for me, can’t remember which year so don’t know exact distance, but I have also been stupid enough for this.
I did the HONC singlespeed 67 miles
About 440km, a 400km audax and to and from the start/finish. Went round the whole thing pretty much on the maximum speed, or slightly above, so had a few sensible stops! Started in Malton IIRC and headed north up the coast and then west, so plenty of elevation!
Longest race was about 290km. Finished as they were taking down the barriers (outside the time limit of course).
Longest MTB is about 180km. That was a sort of Off Road Tour of the Peak in a day thing that a mate put together, up and down pretty much every major lump/climb/descent in the Peak. Something daft like 19-20 hours in the saddle in the end. Ended up going across the same dirt track crossroads in the middle of a moor 3 or 4 times, last time it was almost completely dark and pissing it down. That was fun. Amazingly few punctures. Lots of walking towards the end of the day though!
224miles of a return run of the Exmouth Exodus. The hill coming out of Bath at 216miles in order to get home was excruciating. My GPS ran out of power at 7hours and the battery to support it 4hrs later.
103 road bike
34 mtb
100 miles offroad at Bristol Bikefest on a rigid singlespeed with 26" wheels.
Took me almost a month to get any feeling back in my hands.
Also did a few MTB marathon type 100km events and the HONC several times on the singlespeed
137 miles. 125 mile charity ride with a 6 mile ride from home to the start and back.
100 in Esex on a road bike.
Marin Rough Ride (50?) on an mtb.
123 miles. Was meant to be just over 100 but the difference between google maps route and NCN reality lumped on an extra 20 which I had to do to make my camp spot.
Heh, you can read all about it!!
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/riding-home-for-a-pint-with-dad/
Road bike
Tour du Mont Blanc
330km, 8000m+ climbing. Took me 17.5 hours.
MTB
Salzkammergut Trophy
210km, 7100m climbing. That was 13.5 hours.
100miles overnight through the borders with about 1000 other crazy people.
160km according to Garmin connect, so that covers the past 10 years or so, probably cycled further before I really started recording everything accurately.
When I was young and living in Bolton, one Sunday I just felt like going out for a ride, cycled to Halifax, onto Huddersfield then Holmfirth over Holme moss to the snake pass, down into Glossop onto Stalybridge, AUL then back through the edges of Manchester to Bolton. I hadn't planned to cycle that far, didn't have enough water, food or money (and this was pre mobile phone days) so was absolutely wasted when I got home. I stopped at my brothers in Ashton to hopefully get some food and water, but the bastard wasn't in. I think that was probably a chunk more than 160km and included quite a lot of elevation change.
444 miles, on a 24hr TT. Probably about 450 by the time I'd got back to HQ.
That was a very long time ago.
About 100 miles on mtb
London to York, 14hours, about 225 miles I think. It was horrible, I hate riding long distances - I've learned I just don't enjoy rides over about 4 hours now.
135km
Did the London to Brighton off road with a couple of route print outs when I was off work few years ago.
That didn't include towing the kids to nursery in the trailer 1st
Only got lost once around Hurtwood, because I got distracted by some tempting singletrack
Never really done anything like that so was well chuffed when I finished
I was a sweaty mess on the train back to London, all the young friday night clubgoers gave me a wide birth
Check out my activity on Strava: https://strava.app.link/fwH8DCPu4pb
Done chase the sun south a couple of times so max 208 miles last summer on the road bike is the biggest. Conversely haven't done many big miles trips on the mtb - maybe 40 max? Should probably do something about that.
Rode from home in Brum to Aberystwyth once, then got the train back, about 130 miles once navigational errors and the world's slowest 7 miles home from New St are factored in. 🙂 Done a couple of hundred mile sportifs, probably prouder of a 95 round trip on Cycle To Work day (Birmingham to Banbury and back), and I did TumbleUp4Life once, a charity ride to see how many times you can ride up the Tumble - I did 8, I think, 78 miles and 12k feet of climbing according to That Strava. 38 of those miles were some of the best fun I ever had on a bike. 🙂
Some impressive numbers in this thread! 160km offroad for me - the Transcambrian Way. There was only really one decent descent in the whole thing, never again.
600k audax, started at 6am Saturday, rode through the night and finished around 1pm on the Sunday. Something spiritual about riding all day into the sunset and seeing the sunrise again.
I've done RideLondon twice on the road bike, and doing it again at the end of the month so 100 miles.
300 miles in a day, just. Then collapsed against a lamp post for 15 minutes before riding home at a leisurely wobbly pace to total 506km or so in 24:30 or thereabouts.
As per the numerous silly threads I started since, I wanted to try for the big 400, but never managed to work out how to gain the difference.
Much over 400-500km is fast over 24 hrs
Assuming it's flatish, I'm not really in agreement. When I did 490km (or whatever 300 miles is) I picked up the kids from school ( and despite my cajouling they never got above 8mph!) Cooked them tea and hung around at home for hour or two before the missus returned. I guess my average riding speed was about 15.5mph, which isn't at all fast.
IMHO it is the bit between 360 and 400 miles that becomes fast, and that's why I never tried it. To succeed I'd need to average 18.18mph and allow only 2 hours for eating, which is laughable for me.
I made vague attempts to persuade people to do a team effort, and even bought some tribars. But all I got from that was Achilie tendonitis 🤔
281 miles in 12h. Ended up where I started 🤣 I DNF’d the 24h but managed over 350 miles in 16h. Was not well that day.
THAT is fast. Bloody hell. 22mph. Jesus wept!
Only started using Strava 2 years ago and everything before that wasn't recorded anywhere. I'd guess just over 100 miles doing something like the Etap du Dales...
Not a clue on MTB.
444 miles, on a 24hr TT. Probably about 450 by the time I’d got back to HQ
Wh... how... ?
130 solo miles on a road bike when I decided to ride a stage of the Tour of Britain the week before it came to the North West.
Weirdly, that was also my first century which I'd been putting off for over a year as I was worried I couldn't do it but for some reason decided that 130 would be fine (it was).
I knew there would be some super-impressive numbers posted above though. I don't think long rides are really my thing tbh but always immpressed by the miles some people can put away.
156miles Coast to Coast with a slight detour near Ripon.
221km on a sportive in Norfolk, the name alludes me at the moment. Distance wasn't bad but I remember being demented by the wind noise.
I think you'd need to divide into the sub sets of people who enjoy, train for and aim to complete long distance rides in one group, and people who aren't weird in the other group. 🤣
Some impressive numbers in this thread!
Wait until all the 24hr TTers and audax riders turn up to this thread...
I know a few people who have done the Rapha Festive 500 in one ride (sub 24hrs) - for a couple of years now there's been a small group do it round and round (and round...) Herne Hill Velodrome. At that point the distance becomes irrelevant, it's basically a mental challenge combined with an eating/drinking one.
MCTD – I saw that Derbyshire loop and thought it was too much for 1day
It kind of sounds like a lumpier Mallorca 312 or a 400k audax, so should be doable in 24 hours, but the wrong end of the Type 2 fun scale for my liking.
I'm now wondering if we know each other in real life through the club....🤔
100 miles on the road, 80 on gravel and 70 on MTB.
I did though do the Badger Divide a couple of weeks ago - 3 consecutive MTB days of 65 miles, loaded, including +8000ft on a day.
Wh… how… ?
Lungs the size of a horse, arse made out of leather and (most years) pretty much a top 10 result in the national 24.
Think the record is 100 miles more than that though...
104 miles with 9000 feet of climbing in May '18, I've very rarely done more than 40 over the past couple of years, but 80 around Longleat the other week has made me ponder trying to do my second ever century.
never exceeded 30 miles unless uplifted.
110km MTB
106km Road
Road - Chase the sun, Poole to Bude - 140miles plus prob another 5 or 6 to the car. It rained hard the whole way until we hit Devon. Character building
On mtb, not sure, probably when a pair of us did all the trails in afan in a day. That was knackering. I remember blue scar was last and I both calfs cramping the whole climb.
@crazy-legs - The all in one 507km Full Fat Festive 500 loop that people do out of Bristol is definitely on my list.
85 miles when I did the South Peak loop. This was back in 2015 when I was doing quite a lot of training for a C2C ride. Funnily enough the C2C ride was split in two, so was technically shorter each day than a number of the training rides.
Now 40 miles seems like a long ride 😂
Club has just put together a circuit of Derbyshire – furthest roads east, west, south and north, lowest point in the county and a small diversion up to Flash. Think its 194 miles. A couple of idiots are looking at it as a day out, reckon it would make a lovely 3 day tour.
@MoreCashThanDash - have you got a route file for that please?
Flattish 340km road ride with mates in about 12 hours, but Mallorca 312 in 10.34 hours with 4,000m of climbing was harder.
265km on an mtb at Mountain Mayhem solo.
300km
100 mile road ride from Druridge Bay to Silloth on a hardtail. But mixed surface rides much harder: 90+ miles from Penrith to Sunderland then home or the 90+ miles from Chester-le-Street to Kielder Castle. I think I also did 10 laps of a 9 mile course at the Bontrager 24/12 one year.
I prefer to measure MTB rides in time rather than distance.