2016 MFP Grand Tour Challenge - Vuelta Now Up and Rolling...
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I'll not try and reply individually to all the Thank-You's folks - as I'm bound to miss someone out, and they'll feel like they're being ignored
... let me just say I've read everything on here, and I'm just glad you've all enjoyed it...
My own thanks go out first of all to Jason - without that wonderful little routine he's written in the CycLeagues app, we'd still have been entering everything manually... which means, well - frankly, this years challenges wouldn't have happened, as I've been struggling to manage to ride and tidy the sheet up twice a day, never mind adding a hour or so worth of data entry into the equation...
And, while I'm on the subject of thanks due... the biggest thanks go out to all of you who signed up and rode - be it all 21 stages, or just a few, short distances or stupid km's - without you lot, it'd just have been me and Jason, sitting at computers, inconveniencing a bunch of electrons for no real reason.
Stay tuned tomorrow for the official "prizegiving" thread... I've got a bunch of shirts to prepare, so I'll leave you all for now, hopefully enjoying your rest day off the bike - I know I have been!
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well - that's the TdF Challenge riding over with for another year... Once again, I've said to myself "get out somewhere different this time" and once again I've stuck to the same old circuits - okay, maybe not quite as much as @FitterBody - but still very much a restricted set of loops and locations, and all "out of the back door"...
This REALLY brings it home... not sure if this link will work, but if it does, it's a interactive map - click on the profile, and get the loop...
http://veloviewer.com/athlete/165533/wheel
I started this incarnation of the challenge with a few objectives...
1) Don't Die During It. - check
2) Ride further than last year (602.8km) - check, rode 735.8km, up 22%, also faster (it's all relative - for most of you it's still hideously slow I know) 20.92kph/19.68kph, and with more ascent 5715m/5339m
3) Really, Don't Die During it. - check
4) Try and ride "my share" of the distance and ascent (i.e. have a figure of more than 11.1% of the team's ascent and distance total) - at least that way I know I've "pulled my weight" - can't tell yet, not everyone on the teams ridden, but it's looking good at 12.1% for each)
5) Did I mention Not Dying?? - check
6) to try and get into the "top 10" on at least one "jersey category" - too early to say yet.
7) to still be alive to set up the challenge for LaVuelta, as that's the one i'm slightly scared about, after last year...
Everyone that puts their time in working this out. Big Thank you! You guys do an awesome job. I love these challenges1 -
The triple tours didn't go quite to plan but I'm still pretty happy with the training stuck in since April, six weeks to LeJog and now it's just standard training to the event in September to keep the fitness up. Stats so far are: 6,780 km over 108 rides with 58,323 meters of climbing, 294 hours in the saddle.
All in the name of charity:
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Jason-Savage3
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I'm really looking forward to the epic write up Mark usually composes; it's a superb 'finishing touch' to the whole thing...
Wait no Longer Clive...
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10433397/2016-tdf-challenge-prizegiving-thread#latest
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Okay folks, as I'm starting into Setup for the Vuelta Challenge, I guess it's time to throw the "sign-ups" open...
Same 4 basic teams as Giro and TdF, but as always, I reserve the right to do the odd transfer to balance the teams out a bit...
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I'm going to have to pass on this one0
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Count me in.0
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I'm in0
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I should probably skip it as I am travelling from 19th Aug to 3rd Sep (although i might hire a bike a couple of times)
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Count us in, me and BamaBoyScout.0
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I'm going to have to pass on this one
No Worries - hope we haven't frightened you off with the Tdfwesleepuntilthesungoesdown wrote: »I should probably skip it as I am travelling from 19th Aug to 3rd Sep (although i might hire a bike a couple of times)
Probably best in fairness mate... that's a big chunk of the challenge away travelling (unless, of course, it's on a bike tour, in which case, it'd be ideal...)
I'll move you both to the non-riding pile for now - if things change before we fill the rosta, give me a shout and I can always reinstate either of you...
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Hi Mark - could you please sign me up? Thanks!0
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I'm in if you still want me0
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Hi Mark - could you please sign me up? Thanks!I'm in if you still want me
six and seven... welcome aboard folks
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Unfortunately I have two work trips during that time frame so will be gone 16 of the 21 days of the challenge. If you can't find enough regular riders to fill out the teams I can be a very low milage filler.0
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Can I be number 8 please? Gonna need the motivation to get out there again.
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I'm in
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I am in. Hopefully the weather will start getting better. Or at least slightly warmer and less rain1
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Hi Mark - could you please sign me up? Thanks!I'm in if you still want me
six and seven... welcome aboard folksFitterBody wrote: »Can I be number 8 please? Gonna need the motivation to get out there again.I'm inI am in. Hopefully the weather will start getting better. Or at least slightly warmer and less rain
8,9,10
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steffenson wrote: »Unfortunately I have two work trips during that time frame so will be gone 16 of the 21 days of the challenge. If you can't find enough regular riders to fill out the teams I can be a very low milage filler.
I'll bear that in mind mate, and thanks for the reply.
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No, I really enjoyed it, just wished home life and cars had allowed me to ride more days. I'm travelling during this one too - if you get stuck for riders, I can do 20-26 Aug, 30 Aug - 2 Sep. I looked at the timing and didn't think it would be fair on a team to sign up, but open if you see it differently.1 -
Rowing training will be stepping up during this, so will probably make 100 km a week at best. I'm in, if there is an appropriate spot in a team for me.1
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I'm in. Probably about the same miles as the TdF since I'll still be working 72 hour shifts on the weekends.0
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I'm in for another tour.0
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I'm n again0
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I'm in. Probably will be Latnerne Rouge again. But I love these challenges!!! And I am so proud of my award. :-)0
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I'm in again!0
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Hi Mark - could you please sign me up? Thanks!I'm in if you still want me
six and seven... welcome aboard folksFitterBody wrote: »Can I be number 8 please? Gonna need the motivation to get out there again.I'm inI am in. Hopefully the weather will start getting better. Or at least slightly warmer and less rain
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that's good enough for me... 11ruthbardell wrote: »Rowing training will be stepping up during this, so will probably make 100 km a week at best. I'm in, if there is an appropriate spot in a team for me.
Always amazed how you can fit 72 hours into 2 day weekends... 12sufferlandrian wrote: »I'm in. Probably about the same miles as the TdF since I'll still be working 72 hour shifts on the weekends.
excellent... 13hawkeyegal1995 wrote: »I'm in for another tour.I'm n again 14
Glad you liked it, happy to have you aboard... 15I'm in. Probably will be Latnerne Rouge again. But I love these challenges!!! And I am so proud of my award. :-)
Excellent, and that makes 16 by my reckoning...I'm in again!
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Count me in on this one please 0
