managed my first 100 kilometer ride today

big_p

I feel like I've stepped up a bit, I've managed to do a 100k ride with almost a 1000 meters of climbing and 50k of very windy, exposed flat.

i seemed to get the pace and fuel supply just right too, i rolled onto the drive with a 99% depleted tank and a big fat grin.

I'm just wondering were the other 60k i need to find is going to come from ?

Any way, here's the data.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/230476447

Kendal Black Drop

Well done.

big p wrote:

I'm just wondering were the other 60k i need to find is going to come from ?

You seem to have done a good time/avg speed for your 100k. To do the 100miles you just keep going further, eat and drink more, and it takes a bit longer.

Min Elevation: -54 ft

Where was that? [insert appropriate smiley]

GiantMike

Nice one. Well done.

andy46

Good going, I was going for this today but ended up running out of steam :roll:

It wasn't all bad as I did 54 miles so it was my first 50 miler. I'll get the 100k next time!

Cleat Eastwood

brilliant - good profile getting all the difficult climbing in the first half. How did you find belmont from the other side?

I'll have a go at a bit of that route- i need to familiarise myself with the route round brindle/euxton/leyland. well done.

baldwin471

Nice one! Managed my first 100km yesterday. 1500m of climbing. Almost killed me :L

big_p

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

brilliant - good profile getting all the difficult climbing in the first half. How did you find belmont from the other side?

I'll have a go at a bit of that route- i need to familiarize myself with the route round brindle/euxton/leyland. well done.

"Belmont from the other side" feels like a long steady climb, not hard or steep, just long. the hardest bit for me was out in the spud fields of burscough/southport, the road is about 3 meters higher than the surrounding land, the head wind was hideous.

inseine

Well done, great ride.
You might want to up your cadence a bit but it's a detail.
I've just done my 46th 100 this year, so keep going and you'll soon find them much easier.

big_p

it is something I've been working on. i usually spin at 80-85 on the flat, i think that 72 average includes the non pedaly bits and i was in the low 60's on the steep Belmont stuff.

chrisaonabike

big p wrote:

it is something I've been working on. i usually spin at 80-85 on the flat, i think that 72 average includes the non pedaly bits and i was in the low 60's on the steep Belmont stuff.

The max cadence says 205 :shock:

That's more than three revs per second... is that even possible? (Don't think I could pedal that fast, but then I'm pretty new to it all :oops: )

big_p

don't believe everything you see on a Garmin device, the 205 reading must have been a glitch.

nweststeyn

Well done... just keep setting and beating targets and you'll be at 160km in no time! I started off riding 20km thinking it was far and in less than a year completed five 160 to 200km rides back to back!

Kieran_Burns

andy46 wrote:

Good going, I was going for this today but ended up running out of steam :roll:

It wasn't all bad as I did 54 miles so it was my first 50 miler. I'll get the 100k next time!

The first time I did 100Km was when I was aiming for a 50 miler. The section when I got to 25 miles out was an 'out and back' and I just kept going

I then realised I could be on for a 100Km ride and added a loop on at the end that took me to 64.25 miles.

My first 100 miler was a Sportive and frankly I'd recommend anyone who wants to hit that milestone to do the same. You get to a point where carrying on is difficult mentally and being with other people REALLY helps