September Century plus cycling challenge

TheBigYin

1/9/2011 - 24.39Km - (15.16 miles) - 1,645Kcal - local loop out of the front door, warm, sunny, gentle breeze
2/9/2011 - 24.39Km - total 48.78Km (30.32 miles) - 1,607Kcal (3,252 Kcal total) - as above (to the metre!)
4/9/2011 - 17.96Km - total 66.74Km (41.48 miles) - 1,260Kcal (5,502 Kcal total) - short local loop in the rain
5/9/2011 - 24.42Km - total 91.19Km (56.65 miles) - 1,625Kcal (8,230 Kcal total) - blowing a hoolie out there think my extra 30m was side to side in the wind!
6/9/2011 - 24.45km - total 115.64Km (71.84 miles) - 2,343Kcal (10,573 Kcal total) - horrible, horrible static bike stress testing for my knee injury at hospital - 5 minute warmup and warmdown, with a 10 mile "Keep it at 400+watts" in the middle... Yuk! Then, just for good measure, they stick 3 big needles in my knee, and can't give me any results for a couple of days... I've been happier :grumble:
7/9/2011 - day off, letting the cortisone do it's stuff
8/9/2011 - 24.42Km - total 140.06Km (87.01 miles) - 1,630Kcal (12,203 Kcal total) - normal local loop taking it steady to break my knee in gently
9/9/2011 - 17.96Km - total 158.02km (98.17 miles) - 1,229 Kcal (13,432 Kcal total) - short loop - Dad's birthday today, & need to buy a present for him
10/9/2011 - 24.38Km - total 182.40Km (113.32 miles) - 1,597 Kcal (15,029 Kcal total) - normal loop - horrible winds.
11/9/2011 - sore throat / chest cold
12/9/2011 - worse
13/9/2011 - class A snot-fest
14/9/2011 - anyone got any kleenex - I've used all the ones in the UK...
15/9/2011 - drying up a little, but still not bike fit.
16/9/2011 - 17.65km - total 200.05Km (124.29 miles) - 1,143 Kcal (16,172 Kcal total) - gentle spin on MTB.
18/9/2011 - 21.14km - total 221.19Km (137.42 miles) - 1,348 Kcal (17,520 Kcal total) - normal short loop with an errand on the end
19/9/2011 - 18.01km - total 239.30Km (148.61 miles) - 1,113 Kcal (18,633 Kcal total) - normal short loop
22/9/2011 - 17.88km - total 257.18km (159.72 miles) - 1,193 Kcal (19,826 Kcal total) - normal short loop
23/9/2011 - 27.61km - total 284.79km (176.87 miles) - 1,699 Kcal (21,525 Kcal total) - longer local loop
24/9/2011 - 17.93km - total 302.72km (188.01 miles) - 1,120 Kcal (22,645 Kcal total) - short loop
25/9/2011 - 17.92km - total 320.64km (199.15 miles) - 1,156 Kcal (23,801 Kcal total) - short loop before sunday dinner
26/9/2011 - 28.32km - total 348.96km (216.75 miles) - 1,841 Kcal (25,642 Kcal total) - extended loop
28/9/2011 - 24.37km - total 373.33km (231.89 miles) - 1,564 kcal (27,206 kcal total) - going bloody loopy!
29/9/2011 - 28.67km - total 402.00km (249.71 miles) - 1,799 kcal (29,205 kcal total) - should have done another .3 miles!!!

and finally

30/9/2011 - 24.37km - total 426.37km (264.85 miles) - 1,446 kcal (30,651 kcal total)

Summing up this month then - just short of 265 miles ridden in 20 hours 39 minutes on the bike, 14.4lb weight loss, 10,749 feet of climbing (I'm supposed to be avoiding hills!) and one worn out chain! It's been a good month!!

Pam3

miles
9/1 6.93
9/3 8.08
9/4 1.00
9/7 14.61
9/10 10.10
9/12 7.15
9/15 7.04
9/17 10.00
9/18 11.10
9/21 12.00
9/25 15.11
9/29 23.04

Totals 126.16

I did my personal best today! 15.32 miles in 60 min! I was so pumped afterwards that I did another 30 minutes AND had a better time with going 7.72 miles in 30 min.

Earlier today I had a checkup with my doctor. He was so surprised to see me. On January 19, 2011, I weighed 287 lbs (I had already lost 10 lbs from the beginning of the year) and today I weighed 249 lbs! For my reward, he prescribed a high blood pressure pill that is half of the dosage that I'm taking now. I'll see him again at the end of December. My goal - to be 20lbs lighter AND I can do it with all of this cycling! BTW, my doctor thought that if I kept losing weight, I could be entirely off of my high blood pressur pill. Whoo-Hoo! It's on like Donkey Kong!

congrats on both the doctors report and your cycling....:flowerforyou:

Pam3

week 1 42.2

week 2:143.4

week 3: 134.1
week 4: 127.5
week 5:127.8
september: 575.0

week 5
9/26 --27.0
9/27 --26.5
9/28 -- 23.3
9/29 --25.5
9/30 -- 25.5



1290.0 YTD

thcri

Sept 4th 27.5 Miles
Sept 5th 65.5 Miles
Sept 7th 39.5 Miles
Sept 9th. 15 Miles
Sept 10th 62 Miles
Sept 11th 26 Miles
Sept 12th. 30 Miles
Sept 17th 49 Miles
Sept 19th 28.5 Miles
Sept 21st 33 Miles
Sept 23rd 78.3 Miles
Sept 24th 30.2 Miles
Sept 25th 24.4 Miles
Sept 27th 40.8 Miles
Sept 28th 51.88 Miles
Sept 30th 44.6 Miles

Should be 648 for the month. Unless I talk my wife into going for a ride yet today that is my total for the month.


Rick are you going to set one up for October? I have to golf tomorrow I think but maybe will get a ride in late afternoon.

TDSeest

24 miles today, totaling 472 for September. 28 miles short of my goal but I'll take it anyway. Shooting for 500 miles next month too.


Great riding everyone. Keep it up next month.

BryanAir

I hit 371 miles for the month. Not bad when looking back at all the days I couldn't or didn't ride. My goal was 350, so that's good, but I am going for 400 next month and will make it. It is about to start raining and I have the rain gear in the mail from amazon.

thcri

I hit 371 miles for the month. Not bad when looking back at all the days I couldn't or didn't ride. My goal was 350, so that's good, but I am going for 400 next month and will make it. It is about to start raining and I have the rain gear in the mail from amazon.

Bryan

I just have to ask, how did you ever arrive at 2,911 miles for you goal for the year? Why not 3,000 or 2950 or an even number? I just had to ask....

BryanAir

I hit 371 miles for the month. Not bad when looking back at all the days I couldn't or didn't ride. My goal was 350, so that's good, but I am going for 400 next month and will make it. It is about to start raining and I have the rain gear in the mail from amazon.

Bryan

I just have to ask, how did you ever arrive at 2,911 miles for you goal for the year? Why not 3,000 or 2950 or an even number? I just had to ask....

It is actually the number google maps give me for the distance between downtown San Francisco and downtown NYC along I-80. I started in April and one cross country trip seemed like a good goal for the rest of the year. I am just outside of Aurora, IL on my virtual trip.

CDGolden

well I beat my July goal of 350 by about 75 and missed Aug goal of 450 by about 150 ...

SO for September lets say...325 miles

9/15....19.5
9/16....31.25
9/17....1.5
9/19....31.30
9/23....19.5
9/25....68
9/27....14.5
9/28....31.25
9/30....31.5
==========
SEPT....248.25

thcri

I hit 371 miles for the month. Not bad when looking back at all the days I couldn't or didn't ride. My goal was 350, so that's good, but I am going for 400 next month and will make it. It is about to start raining and I have the rain gear in the mail from amazon.

Bryan

I just have to ask, how did you ever arrive at 2,911 miles for you goal for the year? Why not 3,000 or 2950 or an even number? I just had to ask....

It is actually the number google maps give me for the distance between downtown San Francisco and downtown NYC along I-80. I started in April and one cross country trip seemed like a good goal for the rest of the year. I am just outside of Aurora, IL on my virtual trip.

Now I understand

MoLivesLuvsLifts

miles
9/1 6.93
9/3 8.08
9/4 1.00
9/7 14.61
9/10 10.10
9/12 7.15
9/15 7.04
9/17 10.00
9/18 11.10
9/21 12.00
9/25 15.11
9/29 23.04
9/30 15.31
Totals 141.47

Thanks all for your well wishes! Can't wait to get in the cycling challenge for next month. I'm going to drill it down to 125 miles because I'm going to focus on strength & endurance. It took me 5 months on the stationary bike at Level 1 to hit 15 mph. Now today I cranked the machine up to level 2 and got my 15+ miles in 60 minutes. Now I'll start Level 3 and will see how long it takes me to get to 14 miles. Today, my heart rate was up to 180 and I was biking at an average of 95 rpm's just to make it to the 15 miles. I don't want to fall out or anything.

I look forward to see your high mileage next month!

tmcowan

September bike total was 311 miles. Pretty good considering everything going on and I think my goal was 150. Hoping for 150 for October, losing daylight and the weather is getting cooler here. Did 30 today so only 120 left .

hawkeyegal1995

Ended up with only 205 miles in September so I missed my goal of 250. I lose a lot of my weekend riding time with football games and work did not seem to cut me any breaks. Hopefully next month will be better, of course now I have to worry about the weather!

Keep pedaling!

Tiggerrick

OK guys, here's the totals for this month: Total number of active riders: 22. Total number of miles cycled 5614.18.

So how far is that??? We could have had a relay ride from Miami, Fl to Anchorage, Alaska and still have 614 miles left over. Not bad for 22 individuals. Keep spinning guys :-)

TheBigYin

certainly puts an interesting angle on the mileage we did, doesn't it... well done everyone and lets see what we can do in october

BryanAir

OK guys, here's the totals for this month: Total number of active riders: 22. Total number of miles cycled 5614.18.

So how far is that??? We could have had a relay ride from Miami, Fl to Anchorage, Alaska and still have 614 miles left over. Not bad for 22 individuals. Keep spinning guys :-)

Awesome. Thanks for your work on this. Makes it motivating to get on the bike, even on cold days.