Riding Aims for 2007...
As its 2007, there should be 7 goals for me to strive to meet…
1)Ride a Road Century.
After doing 80miles at a canter at the end of the summer when I was fit, and feeling like I was going to die doing 50 at the weekend, it would suggest that there is work to be done.
2)Ride an Audax or two.
Apparently it’s a strange cycling world of kagools, seatpacks, tea and cake. Sounds ace. Might be able to combine it with aim 1. Cyclotouriste de Vlaandren in Belgium is on the cards too. Mmmm cobbles, in April, Belgium. I think I’ll need that kagool.
3)Ride a 100km enduro, Singlespeed.
I’ve never done one of those 100km enduro things, I’ve always done the middling 75km option or chilled out on the slacker 50km option. Time to do it properly. And seeing as the most XC bike (actually it’s the only current working MTB) in the shed is a singlespeed, I think I’ll use that.
4)Do another 24hr Race, maybe solo, maybe Singlespeed.
Oh, I don’t know, maybe in a team, maybe in a pair, maybe solo, most likely Singlespeed for the reasons above.
5)Ride places I’ve not ridden before.
Scotland for example…
6)Ride 1500 Road Miles and spend 500 hours on any bike.
1000 seemed way too little, 2000 seemed a bit to much. We’ll see. Only 1450miles and 496.7 hours to go. I already have a spreadsheet.
7)Have fun.
Which looking at the above might be a touch tricky, but I’ll make sure there are plenty of chilled rides with beer and café stops too.
1)Ride a Road Century.
After doing 80miles at a canter at the end of the summer when I was fit, and feeling like I was going to die doing 50 at the weekend, it would suggest that there is work to be done.
2)Ride an Audax or two.
Apparently it’s a strange cycling world of kagools, seatpacks, tea and cake. Sounds ace. Might be able to combine it with aim 1. Cyclotouriste de Vlaandren in Belgium is on the cards too. Mmmm cobbles, in April, Belgium. I think I’ll need that kagool.
3)Ride a 100km enduro, Singlespeed.
I’ve never done one of those 100km enduro things, I’ve always done the middling 75km option or chilled out on the slacker 50km option. Time to do it properly. And seeing as the most XC bike (actually it’s the only current working MTB) in the shed is a singlespeed, I think I’ll use that.
4)Do another 24hr Race, maybe solo, maybe Singlespeed.
Oh, I don’t know, maybe in a team, maybe in a pair, maybe solo, most likely Singlespeed for the reasons above.
5)Ride places I’ve not ridden before.
Scotland for example…
6)Ride 1500 Road Miles and spend 500 hours on any bike.
1000 seemed way too little, 2000 seemed a bit to much. We’ll see. Only 1450miles and 496.7 hours to go. I already have a spreadsheet.
7)Have fun.
Which looking at the above might be a touch tricky, but I’ll make sure there are plenty of chilled rides with beer and café stops too.
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posted by Dan Lees at 11:32 AM
2 Comments:
Road centuries are great, but hard.
I did my first in September last year. (The Hell O' The North: Darlington - Richmond - Hawes - Kirky Stephen - Brough - Middleton-in-Teesdale - Egglestone - Darlington.) The first 60 or 70 miles were into a headwind in the rain. It took me ten hours.
For some reason, I have a strangeurge to do it again, on a fixie.
Just use your common sense. Rode at a sensible pace and eat and drink plenty. Thats what I did and my previous longest ride was 60-70 miles.
There is this if you are still in Leicester area which I have just entered for:
www.cicleclassic.co.uk
Kev
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