London Cycle Challenge 2011 - Site Open

ketsbaia

Added another 25 tonight and hopefully will be doing 60+ tomorrow. Must get above 300 miles before Friday...

bdave262000

Bloody close with the Sky boys at the moment, I'm off camping with the kids tomorrow so my milage has topped out at a modest 336miles. Might get a quick ride in early tomorrow to take it up to 350.

davis

Well that's a bit more like it.

Just under 10 miles, not too painful, and all of them enjoyable. Even turned round at one point to repeat a descent (one of them medium pace sweeping buggers without too much gravel) 'cos I enjoyed it. A shade over 16mph too; the kind of ride that makes me think I could get back to loving this.

Just got the "elite" badge too; methinks they've set the barriers a little low (again).

[edit]: Looks like we've just passed 32000 miles, too. Win.

deptfordmarmoset

With SKY now having 111 members as opposed to our 91 they can't really be classed as rivals because they're now well into the 100+ league. Still, they're our nearest team so I'm keeping them in the graphs. They have a small lead but a much lower miles per participant average. I reckon we can still beat them.



The top two are on a completely different planet to the rest of us but one rider has made his own bid for an alternative reality by already cycling tomorrow's miles!?!




For some reason Paul E has appeared on the Championship graph but I'm pretty certain he's still holding onto his jersey at the top of the Cycle Stars.

deptfordmarmoset

And this final morning's random graph is the current average miles per rider...(SCR =355.96)



Happy cycling!

CyclingBantam

Cheers for all the Graph's, they have been great.

I'm gutted but I am going to be relegated at the last minute. No cycling for me today ahead of my trip to the alps this weekend.. Been a really poor month for me.

Snif...

gbsahne001

last miles submitted today.... think I'm going to have a rest this weekend, especially with the weather forecast

the other me

and thats the last miles added from me.

I'm now off to eat 110 cakes
(that's how this works, right?)

tgotb

deptfordmarmoset wrote:

The top two are on a completely different planet to the rest of us but one rider has made his own bid for an alternative reality by already cycling tomorrow's miles!?!

Sorry, that was me. No opportunity to ride anything other than the standard commute today, and didn't want to risk forgetting, so I entered the miles yesterday while I was logged in.

Many thanks for the awesome graphs, they've made things a lot more interesting :-)

ketsbaia

Late surge in activity from me, but nowhere near enough. Let it slip too much in the middle of the month to seriously threaten the Premier league. Nice to break the 300 mile barrier, though.

Next year I'm thinking of doing the Raid Pyreneen around this time of year, so there could be some mileage in that.

jonginge

Is now a good time to mention that the prestige of the jersey competitions goes yellow, green, polka?

deptfordmarmoset

JonGinge wrote:

Is now a good time to mention that the prestige of the jersey competitions goes yellow, green, polka?

I could do that.

Or you could post up a link to a small gif - most if not all of the teams colours are probably available on Wikipedia - of whatever team jersey you'd like to be wearing in the final classification table.

Wallace1492

Right, logged in my tour miles..... could be enough for a Champions league place.... never know!! Love to see a final graph if possible?

Oh, for the record, did 537 miles in 8 days and raised over £1,000 for charity... with a hard final 90 miles over 4 1 in 4 gradient climbs....

deptfordmarmoset

Wallace1492 wrote:

Right, logged in my tour miles..... could be enough for a Champions league place.... never know!! Love to see a final graph if possible?

Oh, for the record, did 537 miles in 8 days and raised over £1,000 for charity... with a hard final 90 miles over 4 1 in 4 gradient climbs....

My pleasure, Wallace Considering the climbs you've been doing, it just has to be King of the Mountains for you! (Note that there are still some miles to be added to the tables - notably KeyserSoze - so the graph's not final but I can't see anyone taking your shirt away!)

Excellent work!

(I'll put the other graphs onto this post as soon as I do them.)

Kieran_Burns

That's the last of my points up. Next year 300 is the target to definitely get and 400 to aim for

Wrath Rob

Just logged my last miles. Disappointed that I didn't break 500 for the month but the last week coincided with the wife getting very social and so being out of having organised things for us so no RP laps for me

There's always next year.

cjcp

Final miles added.

sketchley

Shame with broken wheel and holiday I only managed 8 days. Still 220 mile isn't bad for 8 days I guess.

jzed

Sketchley wrote:

Shame with broken wheel and holiday I only managed 8 days. Still 220 mile isn't bad for 8 days I guess.

Surely you rode Bealach-na-Ba on a bmx just to get some additional miles.

prj45

Do we need any more miles? I have a few in the puter I've not downloaded yet... Looks liek we're OK though right?

Pufftmw

Too late mate - site closed for data upload...

deptfordmarmoset

prj45 wrote:

Do we need any more miles? I have a few in the puter I've not downloaded yet... Looks liek we're OK though right?

Yes, as Pufftmw says, the site's now saying something like ''closed, come back tomorrow for results.''

But when I last looked, and that was after the shut off time of 6pm, we had clearly come first in our category. And we were something like 1500 points ahead of SKY, so even if they had some dastardly plan to shed players and drop into our league, it wouldn't have worked.

So, I think we've done it. Just before they pulled the tables, I managed to update my spreadsheet, so the graphs - excepting the points graph which will have to wait till tomorrow* - will go up as soon as I've watched today's fix of TdF highlights.

*though as tomorrow's my birthday I can't say exactly when...

redvee

Where do I get my 90 cupcakes from, Greggs?

deptfordmarmoset

I think this is how it all ended up. Bar the midday prizegiving...

richVSrich

cheers DM! graphs have been awesome!

aiming to break in to the premiership next year, although that would mean effectively doing an extra 200 miles in the month! :S a slight whisky tango foxtrot forming in my head!

northstar and gbsahne...i am in awe!

Wrath Rob

Just made it into the Premiership, and in the process lost a jersey in the Championship. It will be a long way to get to the top of the new division next year

jzed

Mid-table mediocracy, need to spend some moeny in the transfer market and aim for a Champions league position next year.

rjsterry

Dead chuffed to be in the Premiership (albeit fairly low down the table), considering that it was all commuting/shopping miles and I had a week's holiday during the challenge period. With a full month, I'd be comfortably up around 650 miles, but unlikely to get anywhere near the 1300-odd miles of Messrs gbsahne and northstar.

keyser__soze

Pipped at the line for the KoM jersey. Gutted I couldn't include the 200km of hurricane-powered monsoon riding on Sunday too. Will try to top 1000 miles next year

dhope

JZed wrote:

Mid-table mediocracy, need to spend some moeny in the transfer market and aim for a Champions league position next year.

JZed wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Zipps are the only solution. Go and buy them.

Seems that may be the case. The Max version is specifically designed for the heavy rider (up to 19 stone). Hefty price-tag - time to start saving.

QED