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Longest cycle 2016 ?

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  • 03-01-2017 5:52pm
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    ciaeim
    Registered Users Posts: 477 ✭✭


    Love looking at everyone's stats for 2016. Just wondering what is the longest anyone cycled last year in one go ? Me 383 km Celtic knot day one after getting lost a few times. Should have been a meagre 360 😉 15 hours 20 minutes cycling time. 18 total. Not on Strava so can't share sorry.


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    Doc07
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    I feel very ordinary in comparison. Did 311 total doing a wonderful 300km audax in August. Previous longest cycle had been 200.


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    smacl
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    And even more ordinary here for a 235k spin exploring South Wicklow and North Wexford and getting also lost a few times in the process.


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    07Lapierre
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    A mere 176k for me!.... but it included 4000meters (Mt. Ventoux) of climbing so I don't feel too bad!


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    wanderer 22
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    148 for me, on a touring spin with Alek of this Parish along the Grand Canal and the Barrow Way https://www.strava.com/activities/605957799

    Lovely spin, although I was slightly tired come day 2...

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    meercat
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    ciaeim wrote: »
    Love looking at everyone's stats for 2016. Just wondering what is the longest anyone cycled last year in one go ? Me 383 km Celtic knot day one after getting lost a few times. Should have been a meagre 360 😉 15 hours 20 minutes cycling time. 18 total. Not on Strava so can't share sorry.

    Jaysus I must have been with you. got lost on day 1 too. (I'm lovin it?)


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    moonshadow
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    Started cycling (as a kid but) from scratch properly in April last , culminating in 186 km @ 28 avg on a single day in June and another similar in September , they being my longest......yet ;)


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    selwyn froggitt
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    245km on the Pink Elephant Audax in mid October. I rode to and from the start/finish from home (coz i'm a hero)


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    ciaeim
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    meercat wrote: »
    Jaysus I must have been with you. got lost on day 1 too. (I'm lovin it?)

    No only 2 with me and know both of them. But we must have met at the aspire if u did it. Found the route sheet hard to follow each day and ended up with close to 1100 for 3 days. Last day we had to backtrack about 20 k to get back on route.


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    Beasty
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    71.7km over 2h 53m, 469m climbing, 30/1/16:o


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    meercat
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    ciaeim wrote: »
    No only 2 with me and know both of them. But we must have met at the aspire if u did it. Found the route sheet hard to follow each day and ended up with close to 1100 for 3 days. Last day we had to backtrack about 20 k to get back on route.

    Yeah 1080 for me. Totally lost on day 3 too.may have met you in the centre alright but i wasnt full of the chat. Will be better prepared this year hopefully.


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    ADW1
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    Midleton 200, completed with a friend (206.6km, 1,943m climbing, Average 26km/hour) completed on a 29er mountain bike (knobbly tires and all)!


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    godtabh
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    colm18 wrote: »
    148 for me, on a touring spin with Alek of this Parish along the Grand Canal and the Barrow Way https://www.strava.com/activities/605957799

    Lovely spin, although I was slightly tired come day 2...

    [IMG][/img]Capture7.pnggif hosting

    A top speed of 170km/h? Nice!

    My best was the Boards Evil. I think it was 210km.


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    Euro Fred
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    425km, Dublin - Galway - Dublin, done it in 20 hours


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    Corker1
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    I rode 312 km on the Mallorca 312 Sportive last April. A brilliant day out with some clubmates. A very memorable sportive that I would recommend to anyone if you don't mind the early season training. Riding time on bike was a little less than 11.5 hours and about 4,700M climbing if I recall.


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    ciaeim
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    Euro Fred wrote: »
    425km, Dublin - Galway - Dublin, done it in 20 hours

    That's some going. Were you on your own ?


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    Euro Fred
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    ciaeim wrote: »
    That's some going. Were you on your own ?

    Yeah, it was a brilliant day out.


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    ford2600
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    Beara 400 & Brown Stuff 400 had been on bucket list for a year or so, only got to do Brown Stuff 400.

    440km in total with about 5000m climbing in 20h 30m total. Fasted start and had breakfast in Blessington at about 180km (chocolate milk ftw 😀). Only proper food was soup and Sandwich in Largagh.

    Corrabut gap with 300 odd in legs was interesting, whimped out and skipped climb to mast.

    The most stressful part of day was avoiding potential drunk drivers, but it there was no problem in the end.

    I won't be doing anything like that again


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    ciaeim
    Registered Users Posts: 477 ✭✭ciaeim


    ford2600 wrote: »
    Beara 400 & Brown Stuff 400 had been on bucket list for a year or so, only got to do Brown Stuff 400.

    440km in total with about 5000m climbing in 20h 30m total. Fasted start and had breakfast in Blessington at about 180km (chocolate milk ftw 😀). Only proper food was soup and Sandwich in Largagh.

    Corrabut gap with 300 odd in legs was interesting, whimped out and skipped climb to mast.

    The most stressful part of day was avoiding potential drunk drivers, but it there was no problem in the end.

    I won't be doing anything like that again

    180 before breakfast makes my head hurt 😭


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    ford2600
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    colm18 wrote: »
    148 for me, on a touring spin with Alek of this Parish along the Grand Canal and the Barrow Way https://www.strava.com/activities/605957799

    Lovely spin, although I was slightly tired come day 2...

    [IMG][/img]Capture7.pnggif hosting

    Cemetery for water refill?


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    wanderer 22
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    ford2600 wrote: »
    Cemetery for water refill?

    For a long rest :P


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    daragh_
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    My longest self-contained spin was the Evil - 290km - mostly going up.


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    smacl
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    daragh_ wrote: »
    My longest self-contained spin was the Evil - 290km - mostly going up.

    Showing that while the thread might imply that all KMs are equal, some KMs are clearly more equal than others ;)

    While I can get around the WW200 handily enough albeit slowly, I reckon I'd be well chuffed to make it around the first 150k of the Evil.


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