2016 MFP Grand Tour Challenge - Vuelta Now Up and Rolling...
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To Team Pie, apologise for the lack of riding. First winter in Perth and not used to the weather patterns. One minute it is beautiful and warm next overcast, cold, windy and raining. At the moment the sun is out however the wind is blowing hard and it is raining in spots. Generally not ideal conditions for a pedal. Tomorrow is looking up though.1
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OK ... I'm a little behind and my coworker is on vacation (adding to my issues getting rides in)
Is there a logging thread for this? Or are we using Cycleagues for that?
all in CycLeagues - no logging thread required mate, but if you could possibly try and keep your Strava feed up to date after each days ride it'd be appreciated - or, if you're going to be away from internet/phone coverage for a few days, drop me a PM so I don't think you've stopped logging and mark you as DNF for the challenge...
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To Team Pie, apologise for the lack of riding. First winter in Perth and not used to the weather patterns. One minute it is beautiful and warm next overcast, cold, windy and raining. At the moment the sun is out however the wind is blowing hard and it is raining in spots. Generally not ideal conditions for a pedal. Tomorrow is looking up though.
Sounds like a typical British Summer...
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OK ... I'm a little behind and my coworker is on vacation (adding to my issues getting rides in)
Is there a logging thread for this? Or are we using Cycleagues for that?
all in CycLeagues - no logging thread required mate, but if you could possibly try and keep your Strava feed up to date after each days ride it'd be appreciated - or, if you're going to be away from internet/phone coverage for a few days, drop me a PM so I don't think you've stopped logging and mark you as DNF for the challenge...
Strava is as up to date as it's gonna be ... I missed the first few stages due to life ... hoping the rain keeps away until after my lunch so I can get in todays ride ... rained this morning on my drive to work, but it's not raining now
Such a bummer ... last July for my first Grand Tour challenge the weather here in the Seattle area was perfect ... sunny and warm ... this July has been cloudy, cold, windy and overcast ... and the next two or three days call for rain
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OK ... I'm a little behind and my coworker is on vacation (adding to my issues getting rides in)
Is there a logging thread for this? Or are we using Cycleagues for that?
all in CycLeagues - no logging thread required mate, but if you could possibly try and keep your Strava feed up to date after each days ride it'd be appreciated - or, if you're going to be away from internet/phone coverage for a few days, drop me a PM so I don't think you've stopped logging and mark you as DNF for the challenge...
Strava is as up to date as it's gonna be ... I missed the first few stages due to life ... hoping the rain keeps away until after my lunch so I can get in todays ride ... rained this morning on my drive to work, but it's not raining now
Such a bummer ... last July for my first Grand Tour challenge the weather here in the Seattle area was perfect ... sunny and warm ... this July has been cloudy, cold, windy and overcast ... and the next two or three days call for rain
Weather wise I am having the same problem. Occasionally I get to post sunny pictures on Strava, but this year July is the worst it been in over 10 years.0 -
We are in for some weather here for the next week. Hopefully we can get a few good days. Go Team girl kick *kitten*!1
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We are in for some weather here for the next week. Hopefully we can get a few good days. Go Team girl kick *kitten*!
We had 3 funnel clouds drop out of this mess. one touched down. I was out on my bike at the time, and got just hammered by weather.
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Well Folks, we made it to the first rest day...
9 Days in, 8,886km ridden and 57.3km climbed between us - that's 2.5 times the actual distance of the TdF and just short of 6.5 times the height of Everest climbed.
So far, we've 8 riders that have ridden every stage so far - not bad considering the weather that some of us have been reporting in here...
Longest ride so far jas to go to Jason @Jakess1971 - 251.4km from Nottingham right the way to Welsh Wales - over some of the Lumpier bits as well, just for good measure.
As for the Speed merchants - it's tight this time, with Joshua @m1xm0d3 and Clive @cloggsy71 keeping it pretty solidly in the 30+kph zone... speeds I can only dream of these days.
All 4 teams are ahead of the overall target on distance - distance to the first rest day is 1756km, and we're all well in excess of that figure, though no team has managed to "keep a clean sheet" and achieve the individual stage distance every day as well as cumulatively.
Most important stat of all to me, and I hope this doesn't jinx things, but NOBODY has reported as being "off the bike" through falls or injuries - that's the one thing that I worry about in running these things - that some of you over-competitive types will go out in the rain and do something silly... Please don't - be careful out there, stay safe, keep the bike rubber side down, and lets get through the challenge all intact and all still fit and well.
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Mark, I rode today is it all I need to do is to delete this entry in Cycleagues?1
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you don't even have to do that - Jason's built in a "filter" routine that basically ignores anything on the TdF rest days - BUT it still keeps the data there for the on-going "summer challenge"
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Thanks for the clarification, Mark!2
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Most important stat of all to me, and I hope this doesn't jinx things, but NOBODY has reported as being "off the bike" through falls or injuries - that's the one thing that I worry about in running these things - that some of you over-competitive types will go out in the rain and do something silly... Please don't - be careful out there, stay safe, keep the bike rubber side down, and lets get through the challenge all intact and all still fit and well.
Yeh like cycle up Mount Snowdonia in crazy weather conditions and nearly do a lemming impression off a cliff due to inept brakes .... don't do it people!
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Oh and on a Cycleague note I've realised that some of the missing profile pics are due to them being out of date with Strava and not just private, I'll sort out a 'set profile picture' or 'get latest from Strava' in a profile settings page.
We've been pretty lucky so far that the background Strava fetch routine has been running happily for weeks now, this could be down to either my network at work behaving itself or Starves background API being more stable, either way it's happy days, if it goes down over the next two weekends please be patient and wait until I get back on the Mondays.2 -
I'm going to be out for another day or so yet. I had a hornet get under my glasses and I was stung 3 times before I could get it out. I have some swelling and am resting up for a few days so that I can get back on the bike sooner rather than later.0
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I'm going to be out for another day or so yet. I had a hornet get under my glasses and I was stung 3 times before I could get it out. I have some swelling and am resting up for a few days so that I can get back on the bike sooner rather than later.
Oh that sounds horrible! I hope your feeling better0 -
#firstworldproblems #tourchallenge I'm in Las Vegas for work. I arranged to rent a mountain bike from the only place that will deliver to my (any) hotel. The nice man, Matt, brought their three smallest mountain bikes (I'm 5'1") in combinations of full suspension/hardtail, S/XS. He even brought SPD pedals for me. I cannot stand over the top tube of any of them. Not a one. <WHINE> He's going to measure the stand over height of their smallest road bike and if that might work, he'll come back. I am not the shortest person on earth! I am definitely not the only woman or short person who rides bikes. Why does BMC only have tall people bikes? (They are a BMC only place, it seems). Their smallest road bike is a 51cm so it's unlikely to work for me either. My road bike is 47cm and I've ridden a 48cm before, but 51cm is likely going to be too tall for me to get over. <WHINE> It's not like I ride a child's bike?!?!?!?! 1 -
Perhaps something like these, with cleats screwed to the bottom?
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heads up for my fellow Pastana team-mates... tomorrow may be tricky for me getting a ride in - i'm pitching for some paying work in the afternoon (first new potential client i've had a chance to pick up for about 4 years now, so it's sort of a) marginally important and b) bloody nerve wracking as I'm Soooo out of practice. ) so if I get a chance to ride it'll be late afternoon/evening (and, being honest here, it'll most likely be down to the pub for a swift couple to celebrate/drown my sorrows depending on how the pitch goes...)
I don't want to break my "ride every day" record, so unless its absolutely slashing down in the evening, I will get out there, but don't count on me for anything over double figures in the km's...
Hopefully the weather will be kind for Bastille Day, so I can claw some distance back (and build up a few kCals of buffer for my birthday dinner... along with the incredibly apt bottle of VinRouge that I've been gifted...
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