La Vuelta Challenge 2012 - The third Grand Tour
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I won't drop the ball tomorrow Yin.0
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Just a little reminder - I know it's probably a pain to you lot, but can we please all TRY and get the ride declarations in the following format:-
(shamelessly nicked from cloggsy71's last post)
Team #2
18/08/12 - 17.8km - 33m13s - 58m - http://app.strava.com/rides/18887604
19/08/12 - No ride
20/08/12 - 21.9km - 39m39s - 33m - http://app.strava.com/rides/19122203
20/08/12 - 27.9km - 51m16s - 65m - http://app.strava.com/rides/19146709
21/08/12 - 30.5km - 57m29s - 59m - http://app.strava.com/rides/19255641
22/08/12 - No Ride
23/08/12 - 22.7km - 42m15s - 23m - http://app.strava.com/rides/19447743
23/08/12 - 37.1km - 1h08m04s - 51m - http://app.strava.com/rides/19472607
so - for each day theres a
Date,
Distance (in KM's - not miles - all the distances in the continental tours are in KM's and I'm buggered if I'm going to recalculate everyones declarations. From here on in, if you put a distance in miles, your getting that distance IN KM's)
Time Ridden (moving time if you're using a Garmin/Garmin Connect - so you need to give the ride time without any pauses, coffee breaks, time spent at work etc!)
Altitude Gained (again in Metres. - anything not in metres get's a null. No declaration even if it's in the GPS file, it gets a null)
Link to the GPS track for verification. If you haven't got a GPS file for the ride, fair enough, it'll count for the Overall distance, but it will NOT count for the Jerseys, 2 non GPS rides and you are out of the jersey competitions alltogether.
Sorry if I'm being a bit of a RULES NAZI, but tbh, there's an awful lot of number crunching in keeping this challenge up to date, and frankly hunting down half the missing data as well begins to wear a little thin. Throw me a bone, people... It's a free challenge, I'm not doing this for anything other than the fun of it - please help me to keep it fun for everyone...
Cheers.
Okay - grumpy bit over... anyone noticed the rather spiffy team-tickers I've created for us yet ?? :laugh: I'll try and keep 'em updated - as soon as I've filled in the declared rides in my spreadsheet, I'll add the Km's into the ticker. Thought it might be a neat way to keep a running total of where we are... I'm sure it's not beyond your internet-fu to suss out how to drop them into your own posts - it's just an embedded image file after all... I'd suggest just showing your own team though, rather than both if you do that... I've dropped both in because... well - because I'm trying to remind myself to update the actual code behind the tickers TBH :laugh:
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Lovin' the tickers TBY
We (team #2) appear to be a little behind :sad:0 -
Lovin' the tickers TBY
We (team #2) appear to be a little behind :sad:
You're still in front of the actual target of overall Km's though - at least up to yesterday (and now 25.3km closer!) 0 -
Hi folks,
I'm really sorry, my good lady wife has booked us a last-minute break; so I'm away until next Sunday (bikeless)
I'll be back with a vengeance then!
Keep the KM's up for me team #20 -
25 Aug 2012
39.6 Km.
26.1 kph.
138 Avg. H.R.
744 meters climbing
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All right, I get the rule nazi bit, but I have a question. I have a 200k (Ohio Gran Fondo) ride next weekend with over 8000 ft of climb and there is no way my phone battery will make it (much like last weekend, but worse). Is there a way for me to get "credit" for it if I post the ride details (http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1561289) along with time stamp from my node or should I just not bother for the long rides?0
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All right, I get the rule nazi bit, but I have a question. I have a 200k (Ohio Gran Fondo) ride next weekend with over 8000 ft of climb and there is no way my phone battery will make it (much like last weekend, but worse). Is there a way for me to get "credit" for it if I post the ride details (http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1561289) along with time stamp from my node or should I just not bother for the long rides?
To be honest, I don't really have a problem with just posting it as you said - I believe some people use external battery packs for longer rides on the smartphone app's - I actually tried using one on yesterdays ride out of academic interest and my phone battery went into spasm after about 3 hours. It's not something I'd actually thought about TBH, as the Garmin 705 would track for around 12-15 hours between charges... Perhaps If anyone has any suggestions for external battery packs ??0 -
What about a dynamo USB charger? No personal experience but I know they do exist.0
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Just a quick reminder people - Today (27th) us a rest day on La Vuelta - so, while you're welcome to ride all the Km's you wish, they won't count towards the challenge, so no need to book anything in today
Of course, if you're feeling "pro" you can always go out for 2-3 hours, just for a leg-loosener like the real racers do... personally, I'm taking a real easy day - The odd Nap, with periods of intensive Snoozing to punctuate them :laugh:
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Had to take yesterday off due to weather; we actually got lots of rain. I don't feel safe riding in the rain, so I didn't ride. Will probably ride today anyway.0
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All right, I get the rule nazi bit, but I have a question. I have a 200k (Ohio Gran Fondo) ride next weekend with over 8000 ft of climb and there is no way my phone battery will make it (much like last weekend, but worse). Is there a way for me to get "credit" for it if I post the ride details (http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1561289) along with time stamp from my node or should I just not bother for the long rides?
To be honest, I don't really have a problem with just posting it as you said - I believe some people use external battery packs for longer rides on the smartphone app's - I actually tried using one on yesterdays ride out of academic interest and my phone battery went into spasm after about 3 hours. It's not something I'd actually thought about TBH, as the Garmin 705 would track for around 12-15 hours between charges... Perhaps If anyone has any suggestions for external battery packs ??
Pretty sure this ride is going to be epic, thanks for being okay with route & node. Although I'm doing this ride for me, 200k m and 8500 feet of climb will be a nice chunk to add to Team 1. I'm guessing there will also be a posted time for me being that this is a timed "race" but I'm not sure how that works with stops and such. Have a great week and if your a praying man say a few for me on Sunday, some of those climbs look a little intimidating.0 -
26 Aug. 2012
45.7 Km.
1 hour 42 min. 21sec.
217 meters climbing
Avg heart rate: 99
26.8 kph. 0 -
26 Aug. 2012
45.7 Km.
1 hour 42 min. 21sec.
217 meters climbing
Avg heart rate: 99
26.8 kph.
Hi - any chance of posting these in the Mileage thread mate - it's here, BTW...
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/708749-vuelta-challenge-mileage-thread-ride-details-only-please0 -
Had to take yesterday off due to weather; we actually got lots of rain. I don't feel safe riding in the rain, so I didn't ride. Will probably ride today anyway.
Rain is often downright dangerous, so you get a free pass.
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Unless I can get a ride in this evening, it's looking bad for me today - partly the weather, partly the same "mental malaise" I had yesterday when riding. It's not like me tbh, but i'm just not feeling "focused" at all... Not ideal, when you're out riding in monsoon conditions for 2 hours at 15mph... don't really want you're attention wandering off!0
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I read "mental malaise" as "mayonnaise." Yes, we are a bit tired here...
And, Isaac is supposedly coming this way to drown us on Thursday-Friday. Hmph.0 -
"mental malaise","mayonnaise." - poh-tay-toh, poh-tah-toh... or as my grandad would have said, in his robust kind of way - "Same ****, Different Bucket"0
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I'm really sorry team #2 I had three intense 18 hour days at a trade show, then I got really sick, must have been those long days, standing 12 hours a day and talking until my voice was raw, and interacting with thousands of strangers. I've had such a bad summer cold for the last three days I only did a lousy 5Km on the bicycle doing deliveries, I even went on delivery with the van, not the bicycle because I felt so crappy. :sick:
I am hoping to get over this cold in the next day or two, but it is also brutally hot and humid here, sucks! :ohwell:0 -
Wet, windy and horrible again today.
Guess What? I've dug into the "big bag of winter clothing" (otherwise known as "the belgian bag"
) found the Roubaix Longs, and Sealskinz Socks, and I'm bloody well going out there on the MTB for a ride.
Top and bottom of it is, I hate feeling hungry - which I do, unless I've got that whole extra bunch of 1000kcals from my daily ride... 3 on 1 off gives me enough "spares" to eat properly and refuel on rest days as well, but frankly - if I only ride 1 on 1 off, I'm just hungry and miserable if I keep to my MFP allotted rations. So - "Today We Ride!!"0 -
I'm really sorry team #2 I had three intense 18 hour days at a trade show, then I got really sick, must have been those long days, standing 12 hours a day and talking until my voice was raw, and interacting with thousands of strangers. I've had such a bad summer cold for the last three days I only did a lousy 5Km on the bicycle doing deliveries, I even went on delivery with the van, not the bicycle because I felt so crappy. :sick:
I am hoping to get over this cold in the next day or two, but it is also brutally hot and humid here, sucks! :ohwell:
Dude, don't sweat it. Here we have had the first two weeks of the fall semester (madhouse at my job) and a horrible and as yet unclear diagnosis of cancer for my husband in the past few days. It is a miracle we have managed any cycling.
Life intervenes. Ride when you can, don't sweat it (no pun intended) when you can't. We'll still be here when you can.
We usually do the fun club ride on Thursday nights, but hurricane Isaac might be here by that time tonight. We are not complaining about the potential rain as we need rain desperately but his timing sucks. We have work to do this morning so if we are particularly unlucky. We'll end up on the trainer.
TBY it is hard to picture winter gear since we've had a record hot summer and still have some 100s in the ten day forecast... But I should probably figure out where all that gear is before cold weather appears... No idea at the moment really where it is.0 -
Wet, windy and horrible again today.
Guess What? I've dug into the "big bag of winter clothing" (otherwise known as "the belgian bag") found the Roubaix Longs, and Sealskinz Socks, and I'm bloody well going out there on the MTB for a ride.
Top and bottom of it is, I hate feeling hungry - which I do, unless I've got that whole extra bunch of 1000kcals from my daily ride... 3 on 1 off gives me enough "spares" to eat properly and refuel on rest days as well, but frankly - if I only ride 1 on 1 off, I'm just hungry and miserable if I keep to my MFP allotted rations. So - "Today We Ride!!"
AMEN!!! I hate being hungry, so much easier when there are extra calories around.0 -
FYI team#1 I have a 200km on Sunday (assuming weather is not nasty) so I will likely take the next few days off, or nearly off. Ride hard!0
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Did my back in this morning, so no ride today. I'm hoping for tomorrow, but we'll have to see how the ice does for it tonight.0
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We got nothing biked today between work, class, asking the nurse a zillion questions, and 30+ mph winds. Tomorrow will be a total washout from Isaac, probably. Bleah.0
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It's only a bit of fun people - don't go riding injured, and keep safe out there. We're well up on schedule, both teams have at least 2 stages of riding in the bank AHEAD of the peloton, so we're definitely on track for a podium finish. 0
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/me wonders how long the tickers have been in Yin's posts?
Less than a 1000km to go, yay for team #2. Too bad I don't have the time for another 160km this Labor Day weekend :-D However, I hope to add another 400km at least before the tour is over. I do wish we had Universal Sports on the TV so my wife and I could be watching the Tour. Anyone know how Sagan is doing in La Vuelta?
I am however on track to hit my first 1,100 mile (1,775km) month for August (not that I meant to) so I'll be slowing down for September. Too bad I didn't shoot for an even 2000km, hunh? Would that be 2 Megameters?0 -
/me wonders how long the tickers have been in Yin's posts?
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Anyone know how Sagan is doing in La Vuelta?
Ticker's have been dropped in (when I remember!) for the last couple of days to be honest... Nothing automagic about them though, just me remembering to do it!
Sagan never started the Vuelta... Degonkolb's currently fighting with Rodrigues for the Green jersey (by virtue of lots of steep hills in the last 3km of stages so far...) - Green points jersey in the Vuelta isn't always a sprinters jersey, and Degonkolb's not going to see hide nor hair of it for the next couple of stages...0 -
We'll have nothing on Monday (that's not a rest day is it????) due to the hubby's (BamaBoyScouts's) PET/CT on Tuesday. He isn't allowed to exercise on Monday or eat carbs. Weird. But we don't want to mess up the scans.
The rains finally ended yesterday, so we expect to ride today and tomorrow. We are camped on the second highest mountain in the state so we are going out in the car to scout the roads first.0 -
no worries - we're only something like 20km from completing anyway... or probably less after someone else other than me and FDS book in todays ride.
Fingers crossed for Tuesday and hoping the tests go well - I've actually got a Dr's visit with my dad on Tuesday as well - hopefully just routine monitoring on his blood counts etc. as he's on Statins etc. after his stroke 15+ years ago... I've actually a sneaking suspicion that they're going to be reducing the strength of his meds a little, as he's lost a little weight and eating a bit more healthily as a "bye-product" of me doing the same for the last year or so... I know he went to Dr's a couple of weeks ago, and they were happy about his BP, weight and so forth, but they do a routine blood-work and they phoned last week and asked if he could come in and see the Dr. - even said it was nothing to worry about, just a followup on the blood tests...
It's still probably why I've been unable to focus and ride/train properly for the last week of course - can't help it, I worry about him - he's the only family I've got left...0
