2014 MFP TourDeFrance Challenge-Results Thread
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TheBigYin
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Results for the Second section of the Grand Tour Challenge (Le Tour de France) are as Follows:
first of all the Yellow Jersey / Maillot Jaune overall competition...
Rider #311 - Jakes1971 Doing the Double, followin up from his victory in the Giro d'Italia challenge, once again he's topped the GC Standings with another 1,822.0km - with a frankly amazing distance of 1811.2km 49.84% of the pro's distance... and that's with the last two days on the binnacle list due to an unfortunate incident with a discarded plastic bag.
Second place goes to Rider #333 Veloman21, who rode 1710.4km including a 24hour race in the closing week which brought him very close to the top step of the podium - an amazing showing from a first-time rider in these challenges.
Third step on the podium goes to a very embarrased #309, TheBigYin courtesy of a late push in the final week, in an effort to try and help Team#1's effort in the team competition. Nowhere near the top two chaps, but happy to be mentioned in such illustrious company.
To put things in perspective, we set out to ride 3,656km beween a 9 person team - the PODIUM have managed 4823.7km between the three riders.
Secondly we come to the competition for the Sprinters Jersey / Maillot Vert
Well, it's very much "business as usual" for the Sprinter's prize (yes, I know technically the Green Jersey is a "points" jersey, but that doesn't really translate to this challenge easily) with our resident flyer - Rider #303 - Cloggsy71 who only missed one ride in the entire tour, only dipped below 30+kph AVERAGE on three of the 21 stages, finished his tour actually "En Francais" just to be completely authentic, and ended up with what I find a slightly staggering overall average of 32.55kph - almost identical to his efforts in the Giro.
And Finally, the Polka Dot / Maillot a Pois King of the Mountains competition...
In an incredibly tight competition for the best climber, our newcomer, Rider #333 - veloman21 - who clocked up 18,839m of ascent, that's over 2.1 times the height of Everest from Sea Level. Speaking as someone who gets dropped when riding over a railway bridge, I find it frankly amazing! And, by something of a strange coincidence, was within 2m of the winning ascent from the Giro... Spooky. Mention should be made that our Yellow jersey was only just under 1500m behind and things may well have been closer had he not wrecked with 2 days to go. Another Honourable mention has to go to Rider #316 - phytogurl who posted by far the highest rate of ascent per km ridden - almost 2.5 times as much vertical ascent per km as the winner. That's steep!
Hopefully, the final results are now showing in the spreadsheet at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YhGj-P34GYYtd-IVhhnPQjBraKXfe2z3OFMBoOZO6AI/edit?usp=sharing
Oh - there's one more award, come to think of it...
It's largely a Ceremonial Award, and in this case its been "self awarded" as Fran appears to have already adopted it as her Avatar. but it's the Lanterne Rouge... awarded to the person who comes in last on the GC, but still managed to participate and finish the tour...
goes to Rider #308 - Frannybobs
I think that the Hills and Sunshine over in Yorkshire, caused some difficulties - but she managed to regroup and return to the challenge in the final week. And that pretty much summed up this whole challenge - to everyone who participated, whatever distances or speeds or ascents you clocked up - you're all hero's to me, and I've been very proud to ride with you all.
(I may add a little more analysis to this thread later, along with the results of the "Graham Watson" thread once It's been judged, and the "Red Dossard" when i've had a few more nominations (hint, hint!))
first of all the Yellow Jersey / Maillot Jaune overall competition...
Rider #311 - Jakes1971 Doing the Double, followin up from his victory in the Giro d'Italia challenge, once again he's topped the GC Standings with another 1,822.0km - with a frankly amazing distance of 1811.2km 49.84% of the pro's distance... and that's with the last two days on the binnacle list due to an unfortunate incident with a discarded plastic bag.
Second place goes to Rider #333 Veloman21, who rode 1710.4km including a 24hour race in the closing week which brought him very close to the top step of the podium - an amazing showing from a first-time rider in these challenges.
Third step on the podium goes to a very embarrased #309, TheBigYin courtesy of a late push in the final week, in an effort to try and help Team#1's effort in the team competition. Nowhere near the top two chaps, but happy to be mentioned in such illustrious company.
To put things in perspective, we set out to ride 3,656km beween a 9 person team - the PODIUM have managed 4823.7km between the three riders.
Secondly we come to the competition for the Sprinters Jersey / Maillot Vert
Well, it's very much "business as usual" for the Sprinter's prize (yes, I know technically the Green Jersey is a "points" jersey, but that doesn't really translate to this challenge easily) with our resident flyer - Rider #303 - Cloggsy71 who only missed one ride in the entire tour, only dipped below 30+kph AVERAGE on three of the 21 stages, finished his tour actually "En Francais" just to be completely authentic, and ended up with what I find a slightly staggering overall average of 32.55kph - almost identical to his efforts in the Giro.
And Finally, the Polka Dot / Maillot a Pois King of the Mountains competition...
In an incredibly tight competition for the best climber, our newcomer, Rider #333 - veloman21 - who clocked up 18,839m of ascent, that's over 2.1 times the height of Everest from Sea Level. Speaking as someone who gets dropped when riding over a railway bridge, I find it frankly amazing! And, by something of a strange coincidence, was within 2m of the winning ascent from the Giro... Spooky. Mention should be made that our Yellow jersey was only just under 1500m behind and things may well have been closer had he not wrecked with 2 days to go. Another Honourable mention has to go to Rider #316 - phytogurl who posted by far the highest rate of ascent per km ridden - almost 2.5 times as much vertical ascent per km as the winner. That's steep!
Hopefully, the final results are now showing in the spreadsheet at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YhGj-P34GYYtd-IVhhnPQjBraKXfe2z3OFMBoOZO6AI/edit?usp=sharing
Oh - there's one more award, come to think of it...
It's largely a Ceremonial Award, and in this case its been "self awarded" as Fran appears to have already adopted it as her Avatar. but it's the Lanterne Rouge... awarded to the person who comes in last on the GC, but still managed to participate and finish the tour...
goes to Rider #308 - Frannybobs
I think that the Hills and Sunshine over in Yorkshire, caused some difficulties - but she managed to regroup and return to the challenge in the final week. And that pretty much summed up this whole challenge - to everyone who participated, whatever distances or speeds or ascents you clocked up - you're all hero's to me, and I've been very proud to ride with you all.
(I may add a little more analysis to this thread later, along with the results of the "Graham Watson" thread once It's been judged, and the "Red Dossard" when i've had a few more nominations (hint, hint!))
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Le Tour has to be the best one yet, very much enjoyed it even if it did end rather abruptly for me and still haven't managed a complete tour, I was aiming for an average of 100km pd to cover 2100km over the 21 days and was on track right up to that accident, however I'm pretty happy with an 86km pd average over those days and it really pushed me to my current limits.
Well done to all those that entered, truly impressive stuff. Allan was like the terminator with his never say die riding, amazing stuff and I count myself lucky I just managed to keep hold of Yellow, the climbing was particularly impressive as was Phytogurls, thanks to Frannybobs for stepping in if just to give us a laugh with 'Frannybobs logged'
, awesome work again from Mark for running it, the godfather of MFP Cycle challenges and a well deserved podium finish too. Nice one to Cloggsys lightening speed too, no one to touch him on that one!
In fact we should all be very happy with what we achieved on this one, superb participation all round.
Looking forward to La Vuelta, however my focus has now switched from endurance to cycling for weight loss again so I'm unlikely to be hitting that kind of mileage again until next year ... he says. I'll still enjoy playing a team role though, it's always fun. 0 -
Woop woop, wow reading that makes me think how brilliant everybody on this challenge was - what amazing distances, speeds and climbs and some real big hitters!
I was just pleased to get back in the game before it ended and proudly collect my Lantern Rouge !! However, my aim for La Vuelta, if there is such a challenge (which I would be happy to help run and take a bigger part if required) is to not be at the bottom and to complete without a big gap in the middle!
TBY - you, sir, are an absolute star for devising and running this...spreadsheets with pie charts no less Mmmm, pie.... Anyway I digress, actually what is best is the MANNER in which it is run, which is inclusively with FRIENDLY competitiveness and a real sense of encouragement for each and every person participating. This trickles down to us all and the camaraderie even cross-teams was brilliant. I really felt a part of it, however small.
Well done to all - those on the podium and everybody who took part!
Chapeau one and all! ,
Madamoiselle Lanterne Rouge
(hmmmm, does that sound a bit dodgy being Little Miss Red Light?!?!)0 -
it does sound a little "iffy" tbh...
and "really" the red lamp is supposed to be more like this...
but I was a little lazy with my image googling earlier...
ETA: if you're serious about giving me a hand with the spreadsheet stuff for the Vuelta, that'd be great - maybe if I get the rostas organised, dossards and the initial build of the spreadsheet, then hand over the main "data entry" side of things to you... We'll discuss that outside of this thread though eh
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Well done guys.
Just realised I think I might have been pretty close in second for "vertical ascent". Well done phytogurl.0 -
it does sound a little "iffy" tbh...
and "really" the red lamp is supposed to be more like this...
but I was a little lazy with my image googling earlier...
ETA: if you're serious about giving me a hand with the spreadsheet stuff for the Vuelta, that'd be great - maybe if I get the rostas organised, dossards and the initial build of the spreadsheet, then hand over the main "data entry" side of things to you... We'll discuss that outside of this thread though eh
Haha I quite like the original image - that looks like a mad red button to press in case of emergencies!
And yes - I was definitely serious about helping out for La Vuelta - beats doing actual work and I'd even log on at weekends to do it - I found it very enjoyable!!0 -
Well done guys.
Just realised I think I might have been pretty close in second for "vertical ascent". Well done phytogurl.
If you check the spreadsheet, under the total ascent figure for each rider is the "VA figure" in small blue numbers
(the scary one was #334 - 78cm of ascent per Kilometer ridden... call it 1yard / mile - or - if it's an out and back ride a 1 in 880 gradient.)0 -
Awesome challenge. My first time doing one, and I thoroughly enjoyed the whole process, from the effort to put it on and maintain it, to the riders themselves and the comradely. I am looking forward to the next TDF challenge should there be one.0
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I did way better this time out then the Grio as I logged almost double the kilometers. Not hard considering I was on vacation sans bike for almost two weeks of the Giro! Thank you TBY for the spreadsheet and all the work! This is fun! What an amazing group of folks to 'ride' with across the world. And FrannyBob - you're awesome too for helping out.0
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Huge props to all those that participated out there! Feels fantastic to be competing with such a group of amazing folks, really makes one want to up their game. Congrats to the podium and jersey winners too! Massive efforts there. Wish I hadn't crashed out, but there's still the Vuelta. See y'all on the road!
And lastly... let's all raise a glass/pint/bottle to the man, the myth, the legend, to Mark, our manic organizer! Cheers!0 -
Great stuff everyone!! I'm pleased as punch to be in the Polka Dot jersey, very fetching if I say so myself ????
It's amazing that the 36 riders in the challenge rode a combined 26,600+ km which is akin to going from London to New York 5 times!!! Fantastic.
Everyone deserves a pat on the back ????0 -
Great Job to all winners and finishers and thanks to The Big Yin for another great challenge.0
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Congrats to the jersey winners for going above and beyond and for TBY and the admin for orchestrating this wonderful challenge...Bravo!! :flowerforyou:
What a fantastic group of people that participated, and who put in such a humongous amount of effort...very inspiring and motivating for a first timer like me. I am pleased that I was able to contribute to the team and challenge, and cheers to all for a job well done!. :drinker:0 -
What a Tour...thanks to TBY for herding the cats. Enjoyed being pard of it! Congratulations to the podium!0
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Okay, after trawling through the nominations for our "Red Dossard" winner - it became clear that there was one name kept coming up.
Riding every day until the second rest day, before becoming benched with a leg injury, he still covered 977km and would have been pretty much nailed on for the third podium step... so I give you our "supercombatif" winner...
Dossard_337_supercombatif
Amazing riding - and such a shame you weren't able to complete the course my Friend.
Other notable examples mentioned in despatches were
#306 Sufferlandian - one of only 2 people who ride every day of the challenge, covered over 1000km in the process, while working 100 hours a week... amazing - I really don't know how you managed that - i've a very undemanding (time-wise) day job and an understanding boss (i.e. I'm self employed and said "to hell with it, i'm enjoying the summer this year") and all I had time for was eating, drinking, riding and falling asleep inbetween...
#321 Kerrylikesbikes - Had a disappointing time in "merry old" but still got back on her bike to help her team when she got back.
#302 KitTheRoadie - Smashed all his previous monthly records and went the extra mile for the challenge ... this was a great effort extending commuting miles and then some.
plus of course all the nominations for the three of us on the podium - though in fairness, I still think I got there purely due to Jaques injury ruling him out of the last 6 days...0 -
Good choice, well done Kaktus! 0
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And finally, the "Graham Watson" prize...
This prize was actually independently judged by a group of my fellow moderators on a photography forum, with the following results...
Third - This Effort From Kupe...Rest stop at the beach
"if that's Winter, I'm moving home..."
Second - This "on the bike selfie" from KaktusJaqueKJ Day 2
But the Winner overall, for the entire "body of work" posted, not just a single image goes to...
KitTheRoadie...#selfie from my lunchtime ride today...
This is where I grew up (allegedly)! :laugh:
From today's ride....
At the top of one of my local hills... Trying to get some ascent logged now the Pro's are in the mountains!
And (my own personal favourite, from the Yellow Bike Memories it conjures in me...)As I ambled around the lanes of Somerset last night (http://app.strava.com/activities/163366058) I came across this yellow bike. Now I know this has been a popular thing to do in Yorkshire; what with the TdF visiting but surely this chap must be lost?! He wasn't very talkative when I tried to ask him! :laugh:
Special Mentions went to
Jakes1971Angry clouds approaching!
and the rest day shot from SufferlandrianThis is what rest day looks like. Break 'em down and clean 'em up. Like the good bible says, "Cleanliness is next to roadliness." :laugh: :laugh:
while I was awarded a -100 for my Buffalo/Bison 'joke' :laugh:
Thanks everyone who contributed to the Photo Thread - it really is a joy to see some of the places you lot are riding, truly inspiring.0 -
Love this side of the challenge, some wonderful shots and a great winning selfie, I'd have prob fallen off my bike if I had tried that shot. 0
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Great job to all!0
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Thanks to all for an enjoyable Tour and a special thanks to Mark (TBY) for his outstanding work in pushing, prodding, pulling the spreadsheet.0
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I wasn’t expecting the Red Dossard at all. I am humbled for sure. KitTheRoadie’s Lunchtime ride picture was my favorite, well deserved blue ribbon!0
