The 2007 Century A Month Challenge Chatzone

apt · December 2005

I'm in!
Who's up for doing the first on New Year's day?

Andy :-)

Study, cycle, study, cycle, study, cycle....
CYCLE!

offthepace · December 2005

I won't be able to show my electronic face here if I don't have a go

jan_connett · December 2005

...and me: in keeping with my desperate-last-entry rides, looks like I'm one of the last ot sign up!
Cheers
Jan

Polar Bear · December 2005

Hmm, getting fit enough to get on in for the end of January will be a challenge, but, with that new turbo . . . .

Who can tell me (one reply will do please) the website for Audax UK?

It's ok - I've found it!

I'm not promising mind.

Over 100 gears to choose from and still I can't find the right one . .

Rob Sallnow · December 2005

Well, the 2006 challenge is officially open and I'm keen to see who is the first person to post their January ride in the official register!!![:)]

I'd rather walk than use Shimano.

Ribble Cycles is the devil in bike shop form!

Unknown · January 2006

As I Failed on the First, didn't Start the Second, I'll Try the Third :-) Though having realised how alarmingly unfit I am at the moment, this months will be a challenge in itself.

And Rob, the above post makes sense now that you've edited it, but given the time it was first posted, it was a good attempt !

Rob Sallnow · January 2006

[:D][:I]

I'd rather walk than use Shimano.

Ribble Cycles is the devil in bike shop form!

manotea · January 2006

Hmm, well, I'll not be getting the prize for first ride 0f 2006 tho' I might be in with a shout for last ride of 2005 after a 200k effort on NYE. The real curtain raiser for 2006 is, of course, "The Poor Student" Audax on Sunday 8th...

"Put the kettle on. I'm gaspin"

ForumNewbie · January 2006

Hi there - I'm a bit confused. I see the 2006 thread relates to 100km per month whereas the 2005 thread related to 100 miles per month. Are there 2 separate challenges - one for 100 miles pm and one for 100 km per month? If so, is the Official Register for the 2006 100 miles per month challenge still to be posted?

Rob Sallnow · January 2006

It looks slightly confusing because the Metric Century A Month Challenge has moved to the same forum section as the Century A Month Challenge for 2006 plus the 2005 threads are still being posted in for now.

I've no idea how the Metric version will go but the 2006 Century A Month Challenge will have two threads....The Official Century A Month Register will be a sticky soon and is the thread you only use to post your qualifying rides....don't follow Chisa's example of the 'Me Too' post. There will also be a this thread for general comments about the challenge 'phew, made this months ride by the skin of my teeth' or 'oh bugger I'm out for this year' type posts.

The 2005 register thread will be unstickied soon and will sink down the pages in to obscurity along with the 2005 chat thread.

Hope this helps

I'd rather walk than use Shimano.

Ribble Cycles is the devil in bike shop form!

ASC1951 · January 2006

Yes, I'll be there again. Little rosy cheeks still flushed with success from last year...and I've forgotten how horrible January and February's were.

ForumNewbie · January 2006

Thanks Rob - now I know. However I think there will be confusion and it wouldn't surprise me if some of the metric challengers start posting on your century thread. It may be an idea to add the word 'miles' to your Official Register heading to try to prevent this. I know yours was there first, but it's just an idea.

I really admire those of you that can do a 100 miler each month, but if I enter any it will probably be the metric one, because a hundred mile trip each month is probably too much for me - certainly in winter. At the speed I go there's not enough daylight in the winter months to get 100 miles in.

Rob Sallnow · January 2006

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by ForumNewbie

Thanks Rob - now I know. However I think there will be confusion and it wouldn't surprise me if some of the metric challengers start posting on your century thread. It may be an idea to add the word 'miles' to your Official Register heading to try to prevent this. I know yours was there first, but it's just an idea.
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That's a fair point but anyone posting rides of less than 100.0 miles in the Century A Month Challenge will soon find out they have posted in the wrong thread when they check their emails[:D]

I'd rather walk than use Shimano.

Ribble Cycles is the devil in bike shop form!

jan_connett · January 2006

Congrats to Rob and Piedwagtail on their inaugural 2006 centuries - I lived in Bolton-le-Sands once upon a time, PW - haven't heard that name for a long time!

Cheers
Jan

Unknown · January 2006

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by jan_connett

Congrats to Rob and Piedwagtail on their inaugural 2006 centuries - I lived in Bolton-le-Sands once upon a time, PW - haven't heard that name for a long time!

Cheers
Jan
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Oh I reckon anyone claiming a century for SUN 02 Jan are sat at the P.C. with a pint and should be disqualified immediately [:)]
Maybe even made to go shopping at Ribble by way of pennance!

Michael (the date pedant)

Rob Sallnow · January 2006

Well it feels like a Sunday!!!

I'd rather walk than use Shimano.

Ribble Cycles is the devil in bike shop form!

piedwagtail91 · January 2006

thanks jan.b-l-s wasn't at it's best yesterday,it was almost deserted.

bazzerp · January 2006

Rob - I love your signature. I have 2 Ribble 653s & love them. 100 this month is stretching it after a spine operation on 15th December, but 10 out of 12 is still a damn good incentive.

Bazzz

Normal for Norfolk

Rob Sallnow · January 2006

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by bazzerp

Rob - I love your signature. I have 2 Ribble 653s & love them. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Yup...I had two Ribble frames about 10+ years ago an SLX and a 531....both were late, the wrong colour scheme and the SLX had a lump of brazing in the top tube and a lump of brazing over the already tapped bottom bracket threads....other than that they were fine till I got something better.

I'd rather walk than use Shimano.

Ribble Cycles is the devil in bike shop form!

apt · January 2006

My January ride was 102m from Home (Salsibury) through the Wyle Valley, Down to Mere then Shaftsbury, Sixpenny Handley, Fordingbridge, Through the New Forest to Brook, North to Lockerly and back to Salsibury Via Alderbury. Round through Lavistock and Ford back home. 102M. Started 8:15am Sunday 1st January. Finished 4:15pm Sunday 1st January. Was I the first? I though of starting 1am to make sure I got one in as soon as possible but bottled out on New Year's eve.

bonk man · January 2006

If I can somehow force myself to do 100 miles before the end of this unpleasant month the rest of the year will seem like freewheeling.[:)]

ride your neighbour and love a bike

Phil Dyson · January 2006

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by apt

My January ride was 102m from Home (Salsibury) through the Wyle Valley, Down to Mere then Shaftsbury, Sixpenny Handley, Fordingbridge, Through the New Forest to Brook, North to Lockerly and back to Salsibury Via Alderbury. Round through Lavistock and Ford back home. 102M. Started 8:15am Sunday 1st January. Finished 4:15pm Sunday 1st January. Was I the first? I though of starting 1am to make sure I got one in as soon as possible but bottled out on New Year's eve.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">You need to post this on the other Century thread, apt.

Phil

Phil Dyson · January 2006

Couldn't help noticing that a few of those on the Poor Student yesterday went via Stow(e). Did I blink and miss it, or did you all go "on tour", or are you mistaking Moreton in Marsh for Stow on the Wold?

What a pig of a ride that was. If that was my first audax I don't think I'd do another. Shame, because it's fundamentally a pleasant route (which is why I was doing it for the third time). So who's entered the Marlborough Connection?

Phil

edited Marmsbury/Marlborough (thanks FP)

piedwagtail91 · January 2006

glad to see the official register has reappeared on page one. have they stickied the wrong thread?

redfox · January 2006

Sorry Phil, cant speak for everyone but I was guilty of cutting and pasting Fixed Phil's log (now corrected).

Rob Sallnow · January 2006

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by piedwagtail91

glad to see the official register has reappeared on page one. have they stickied the wrong thread?
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Yes they have, I've flagged the correct thread three times and they still haven't stickied it yet[V]

I'd rather walk than use Shimano.

Ribble Cycles is the devil in bike shop form!

1x1 · January 2006

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Phil Dyson

Couldn't help noticing that a few of those on the Poor Student yesterday went via Stow(e). Did I blink and miss it, or did you all go "on tour", or are you mistaking Moreton in Marsh for Stow on the Wold?

What a pig of a ride that was. If that was my first audax I don't think I'd do another. Shame, because it's fundamentally a pleasant route (which is why I was doing it for the third time). So who's entered the Malmsbury Connection?

Phil
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I suspect a bit of post-ride delirium set in! I agree, it was a pretty grim experience yesterday, but them I did have my fair share of mishaps including a puncture-stop where i dropped my sandwich and multitool into a roadside turd and my pump refused to function until I took it to bits with frozen fingers and spat into it.
I'm down for Dr Fosters in a few weeks, then probably the Malmesbury Mash in Feb (both from Cardiff)

n/a111 · January 2006

Marlborough Connection, Phil ?[;)]

OK I though that was Stowe, but none of you spotted it either

I shall ride the Marlborough Connection, the Malmesbury Mash and Dr Fosters

n/a111 · January 2006

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Phil Dyson

What a pig of a ride that was. If that was my first audax I don't think I'd do another. Shame, because it's fundamentally a pleasant route (which is why I was doing it for the third time).
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It was damp, yes, but not too cold.

I rode it as a perm on a perishingly cold day in December and it took me almost 4 hours longer - OK I rode from home, which puts about 30 k on to it - but even so...

zoomcp · January 2006

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Fixed Phil

Originally posted by Phil Dyson
What a pig of a ride that was. If that was my first audax I don't think I'd do another.
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The route was great; up until the A40 I was even enjoying it; but having sleet in you eyes and a biting wind; it explains why I have never done a 200 between early November and March before. Respect to all you "hardcores", don't know how you do it, I doubt I will after PBP.

You ain't seen me, right?

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