2011 Metric Century Challenge

proto

Bad news I'm afraid, Runner 2Cycling came off on ice on the High Wycombe club run this morning. Broken hip and collar bone, now in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Operating tomorrow, in hospital 7 or 8 days.

Chin up Dave, recover quickly! (Proto aka Tim O)

mikeeye

proto wrote:

Bad news I'm afraid, Runner 2Cycling came off on ice on the High Wycombe club run this morning. Broken hip and collar bone, now in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Operating tomorrow, in hospital 7 or 8 days.

Chin up Dave, recover quickly! (Proto aka Tim O)

Bad news indeed :-(

Good luck for a speedy recovery Runner2Cycling.

Best wishes,

Mike

pdstsp

Bummer - good luck with the recovery Runner2Cycling - terrible time of year to do it too.

Paul

thecrofter

proto wrote:

Bad news I'm afraid, Runner 2Cycling came off on ice on the High Wycombe club run this morning. Broken hip and collar bone, now in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Operating tomorrow, in hospital 7 or 8 days.

Chin up Dave, recover quickly! (Proto aka Tim O)

Sh*t, that's nasty.
It's slightly worrying that, in the relatively small community that this forum forms, there seems to be a pretty regular number of people having bad accidents. :shock:

All the best for a speedy recovery.

Wheelspinner

thecrofter wrote:

proto wrote:

Bad news I'm afraid, Runner 2Cycling came off on ice on the High Wycombe club run this morning. Broken hip and collar bone, now in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Operating tomorrow, in hospital 7 or 8 days.

Chin up Dave, recover quickly! (Proto aka Tim O)

Sh*t, that's nasty.
It's slightly worrying that, in the relatively small community that this forum forms, there seems to be a pretty regular number of people having bad accidents. :shock:

All the best for a speedy recovery.

Add me to that list. After falling out of the challenge mid year, just last week I was looking for the sign-up page for 2012, till a crash on Friday left me with a cracked vertebra. There goes January at least, probably Feb too for 100km attempts.

Bugger

Well done all this year and Good luck for next!

Simon

DeadCalm

Ouch.

Best wishes to both Runner2Cycling and Wheelspinner and hoping for a prompt and full recovery to the both of you.

pdstsp

Bloody hell its turning into emergency ward 10 in here (showing my age). I am also suffering but have to confess its self-inflicted and alcohol related so I guess no sympathy coming this way.

All the best to the crocked and broken and happy cycling to everyone else over the holidays.

Paul

mr_poll

Yes, done - Chose a lovely day to go out never did I imagine 11 months ago that my December ride would be in sunshine. Bloody hurt today after a month off the bike. Thanks to all for motivational comments on this thread and for those that have updated everything, hopefully I have avoided the lantern rouge.

pdw

That's me done, and what a miserable ride to finish off on

Wind and rain all the way round. In the last 10 miles it started really chucking it down, the wind picked up and swung round to the north (no need to tell you which way I was going) and the temperature dropped from a balmy 10 degrees to a rather chilly 5 degrees in the space of 15 minutes. Only one thing could round off a ride like this, and sure enough a few minutes later I was fumbling around with completely frozen fingers trying to fix a puncture.

Gutted I couldn't have escaped work yesterday and done it then.

Still, I've enjoyed the challenge and at least I'm still in one piece! There have definitely been a few days where it's forced me to get out on the bike when I might otherwise have stayed in bed. Many thanks to those who've done the monthly updates.

Not sure about next year... Maybe I'll drink enough over the next few days for it to start to seem like a good idea again.

Runner2Cycling

I certainly won't be signing up for the challenge again next year - last Sunday I was out with the club, crashed very heavily on some black ice whilst descending Aston Hill (on A40 just west of Stokenchurch) at about 25mph and broke my left hip and collarbone.
I've had a plate and pins inserted into the hip (a "dynamic screw") but luckily there is only a small crack at one end of the clavicle so I can use the arm for load-bearing - just as well as I'll be on crutches for quite a few weeks.
After a week in John Radcliffe hospital I got home yesterday just in time for Christmas !

My abiding memory of the crash is hitting my head very hard on the road - of course I was wearing a helmet - which surprisingly doesn't show any sign of damage (but I'll be buying a new one anyway).

Dave

durrin

Runner2Cycling wrote:

I certainly won't be signing up for the challenge again next year - last Sunday I was out with the club, crashed very heavily on some black ice whilst descending Aston Hill (on A40 just west of Stokenchurch) at about 25mph and broke my left hip and collarbone.
I've had a plate and pins inserted into the hip (a "dynamic screw") ...

Dave

ouch! good luck with healing up. I was only off my bike for 5 weeks when I broke my collarbone though, you can still do 2012, Optimism!!

gbs

Final effort completed today.

velocitizen

Not been a bad couple of days to squeeze those last rides in.
Well done to all the finishers.
Get well soon all that are injured.
Anyone fancy doing it all again in 2012?

durrin

2012? yeah, definitely! I think at least one other mentioned looking for the sign-up thread.

velocitizen

Sign up for 2012.
http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40007&t=12827825&p=17368441#p17368441

mr_poll

Apologies - just realised I have under reported my total's and missed 2 rides off somewhere along the way - have re-edited and whilst it wont effect the standing too much it will jump me away from the lantern rouge.

fridgeboy

Phew - just squeezed my December ride in under the wire. Pretty horrible out there this morning - my poor Bianchi got covered in shite. Looking forward to beating that total next year.

velocitizen

Congratulations to all the finishers.
I love to read lines like '..gave me the motivation to get out.' thats what the Challenge is all about for me.
This just needs a full results table and then we can move on to the 2012 Challenge.
Happy New Year to everyone.
Nice, dry morning here and I've got to be at the in-laws for lunchtime, 4 hour ride anyone?

rolf_f

Managed a final ride on the 31st - must be one of the last! A very windy, soggy ride through Bronte Country not doing quite its worst but certainly a bit on the Wuthering side.

25 points over 24 rides. 3220 metric century kilometers ridden.

mr_poll

Velocitizen - Has really helped with motivation for the year, got a mention in my blog

http://www.teamskyfans.com/blog/?p=876

Thanks to everyone who has collated stats and everyone's comments throughout the year. Question is do I go again in 2012?

pdstsp

Happy New Year to everyone, best wishes for the new year, congratulations to the finishers, commiserations to those who fell short and a speedy recovery to those injured. Keep us informed.

Here is the roll of honour, obviously subject to last minute postings.

Maglia Rosa to DeadCalm 88
Runner2Cycling 76
toontra 75
durrin 73
daibhi 58
slog 49
Jonninho 47
Omar Little 43
genki 41
furrag 40
fridgeboy 36
LA 34
wiffachip 32
Rolf F 25
gbs 23
Ricky G 20
the crofter 18
pdw 17
mr_poll 16
leedsmjh 16
velocitizen 14

and the lantern rouge is shared between....

Pollys Bott 13
renard 13

Very well done once again - I will be back in this year as I have just negotiated with Mrs pdstsp to ride the length of either Italy or France in late May/June so whoopppeeedooo.

Paul

toontra

Well done everyone! Thanks for keeping the stats Paul and good luck with your European tour - may see you on the Stelvio pass!

Runner2Cycling

My recovery from a broken hip on 18th December is going well (can walk slowly with just one crutch now) but there's absolutely no way I'll be fit enough to even get on the bike by 31st Jan, never mind ride 100k, so I'll be taking a year out of this challenge and will be back in 2013.
Good luck to all those in for 2012's challenge - it will undoubtedly improve your stamina and strength, as it did mine, if you manage several rides or more a month.

genki

Good to hear the recovery's started well and let's hope you're not just back in 2013, but back at the top of the table.

mikeeye

pdstsp wrote:

...and a speedy recovery to those injured. Keep us informed.

I saw my consultant for my 3 month (and 12 day) check up on Tuesday. New x-rays showed that my collar bone fracture has not fused (yet). He said I can ride my bike again if I wish - but if I fall "it will break". Basically I have to make up my mind whether it's worth the risk. Saw my physio the day after. She looked at the x-rays; felt the movement in the bone and advised against riding. Another three month wait now to give the fracture a chance to fuse.

Congrats to all those who did finish the challenge in 2011 - some very impressive results there. And good luck to the rest of you who are recovering from injuries.

Thanks to Velocitizen for organising this and pdstsp for the monthly updates.

daibhi

Thanks to pdstsp for the accounting and Velocitizen for the rest of it. Congrats to all finishers and commiserations to those who didn't make it, especially the injured.

Dáibhí

mikeeye

An update on my collarbone situation...

7 1/2 months after the crash, a CT scan has conformed non-union. I am currently back on my bike and have done a reasonable number of metric centuries and one imperial century this year. I have even got back to a state where I don't feel completely petrified as I cross the roundabout where it happened.

But things are not right, so I will be having the collarbone plated. Current plan is to delay this until the autumn.

I can't say I'm looking forward to starting all the physio again, but hey ho at least I have a resolution in sight.

What about the other injured folks, Wheelspinner, Runner2Cycling? How are your recoveries going?

bikergirl17

wow -- just caught up on last year's challenge posts and am in awe of the insane amounts of cycling and shocked by all the accidents. def hope the rather large group of injured are all healed up.

for me, having to drop out of this challenge killed my cycling mojo (it was worse than having to cancel the cycling trip to the alps, seriously!); funny how sharing the results of a simple 100 km ride once a month could be so motivating. great to be back in for 2012, broken bones largely healed and with a few more kilograms to drag up those climbs.