October Cycling Challenge - 200 + Miles, 1 month

mattellis2
mattellis2 Posts: 152
edited October 3 in Fitness and Exercise
I've participated in this challenge the last couple of months, and it is a lot of fun. The goal: 200 miles or more on your bike this month. The last couple of months have been 150 miles, but most people are killing that, so I bumped it up a little bit.

Feel free to post your own goal, and then update throughout the month with your progress.

Here is the old thread:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/332673-september-cycling-challenge-150-miles-1-month
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  • mattellis2
    mattellis2 Posts: 152
    I'll go first:

    I am shooting for 400 miles or better this month. I got in 51 yesterday, so I have 349 to go.
  • davidpm
    davidpm Posts: 208 Member
    I'm training for a 40 miler in 2 weeks. I think I can get to 200 in a month!
  • ciarq
    ciarq Posts: 13 Member
    How do I sign up?
  • emdeegan
    emdeegan Posts: 219 Member
    where do i sign up....
  • galway68
    galway68 Posts: 1
    ill sign up too
  • mattellis2
    mattellis2 Posts: 152
    just post your goal, and keep updating the thread as the miles pile up. see the link at the top of the page to the old thread...gonna try to run it something like that.

    -matt
  • TDSeest
    TDSeest Posts: 1,089 Member
    28 miles today; 28 total for October. Goal is 500 for October.
  • mattellis2
    mattellis2 Posts: 152
    24 for tonight. 75 in the last 18 hours. i know that isn't much to some of you all that have lots of miles under your belt, but i am only coming up on my first 1k.

    75 total for october so far.
  • TDSeest
    TDSeest Posts: 1,089 Member
    8 brutal miles today; 36 miles for October.
  • DurdenCycles
    DurdenCycles Posts: 27 Member
    I didn't have time to post my final mileage for September. So, I'm posting now.
    I fell short of my goal by 30miles. But, i did start running. I guess that has taken some of my time and energy.
    September total was 770 miles.

    I'm not setting a goal this month as I have decided to run a half marathon in December. I'll be watching though.

    Good luck everyone!!
  • carbonboy
    carbonboy Posts: 729
    I'm gonna do my usual 1000 for October.

    130 so far. I will update my ticker when I get to a real computer.
  • jimmacdonald
    jimmacdonald Posts: 93 Member
    29.77 miles so far this month.

    Dont know how to get miles in with so little sun in morning.

    But plan to continue to ride.

    Jim
  • TheBigYin
    TheBigYin Posts: 5,686 Member
    Okay then - I reckon 200 might just be do-able if the weather holds ...

    1/10/2011 - 24.40Km - (15.16 miles) - 1,457Kcal - local loop out of the front door
    3/10/2011 - 24.37km - 48.77km total - (30.30 miles) - 1564 Kcal (3021 kcal total) - windy, windy, WINDY!
    4/10/2011 - 21.01km - 69.78km total - (43.35 miles) - 1323kcal (4344 kcal total) - mtb instead of roadbike - still WINDY!

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  • carbonboy
    carbonboy Posts: 729
    Week 1 (Partial) = 71
    Week 2 = (Mon. 59, Tue. 18, Wed. , Thu. , Fri. )


    FYI~ My riding week starts on Mondays and ends on Sundays. That's why I usually end up with a partial first week and last week depending on where the month starts. I know some people just start on the 1st of the month and start counting their week from whatever day of the week that happens to be. I'm too OCD for that.
  • TDSeest
    TDSeest Posts: 1,089 Member
    19 Miles today; 55 miles for October.
  • TheBigYin
    TheBigYin Posts: 5,686 Member
    You think you're obsessive carbonboy... I normally spell it CDO - it's like OCD only neatly arranged into alpha-order :laugh:
  • carbonboy
    carbonboy Posts: 729
    You think you're obsessive carbonboy... I normally spell it CDO - it's like OCD only neatly arranged into alpha-order :laugh:

    I had a girlfriend (from the Peak District actually), that could only eat her M&Ms once they were all sorted by color. I also need to have the volume on a digital radio be an even number. It's a curse.
  • mattellis2
    mattellis2 Posts: 152
    25 miles for me tonight, 100 so far this month. broke a shift cable about 5 miles out, and ended up riding home on a fixed gear bike. that wasn't fun, but at least i was in a decent gear when it decided to break.

    of to the shop tomorrow for another cable i suppose.

    -matt
  • TheBigYin
    TheBigYin Posts: 5,686 Member
    1/10/2011 - 24.40Km - (15.16 miles) - 1,457Kcal - local loop out of the front door
    3/10/2011 - 24.37km - 48.77km total - (30.30 miles) - 1564 Kcal (3021 kcal total) - windy, windy, WINDY!
    4/10/2011 - 21.01km - 69.78km total - (43.35 miles) - 1323kcal (4344 kcal total) - mtb instead of roadbike - still WINDY!
    5/10/2011 - 20.61km - 90.39km total - (56.16 miles) - 1293kcal (5637 kcal total) - mtb again


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  • mattellis2
    mattellis2 Posts: 152
    yin,

    how are you keeping track of your calorie expenditure? i notice you burned more on a 30 mile ride than the 43 mile ride a few days later...
  • carbonboy
    carbonboy Posts: 729
    Rare rain storm in SoCal means no riding today. With this coming weekend being mostly shot, I'll have a lot of miles to make up.

    Week 1 (Partial) = 71
    Week 2 = (Mon. 59, Tue. 37, Wed. 0 , Thu. , Fri. , Sat. , Sun. )
  • TheBigYin
    TheBigYin Posts: 5,686 Member
    yin,

    how are you keeping track of your calorie expenditure? i notice you burned more on a 30 mile ride than the 43 mile ride a few days later...

    Miles are just a cumulative, and provided for the benefit of Former Colonials:wink:... By and large I work in Km (Velominati Rule #24 :smile: ) so I burned 1564kcal on a 24.37km ride and 1323kcal on a 21.01km ride... any small % variation talen up by the fact that I was riding my MTB on one ride and the roadbike on the other - and I tend to loaf about on the MTB, whereas I get on with the job on the roadbike :laugh:

    Calories are as per calculations from the Garmin 705 with cadence and hrm setup, as logged in garmin connect. When taken in combination with the input figures from MFP and my weight loss, the total Kcal discrepancy has tallied reasonably well - i.e. divide the weekly kcal discrepancy by 3500 and you get the # of lb's lost that week.
  • electriq
    electriq Posts: 359 Member
    I'm aiming for 475km (297miles) this month.

    I have 109km so far
  • carbonboy
    carbonboy Posts: 729
    Week 1 (Partial) = 71
    Week 2 = (Mon. 59, Tue. 37, Wed. 0 , Thu. 18, Fri. , Sat. , Sun. )
  • carbonboy
    carbonboy Posts: 729
    Corrected totals.

    Week 1 (Partial) = 71
    Week 2 = (Mon. 59, Tue. 37, Wed. 0 , Thu. 37, Fri. , Sat. , Sun. )
  • mattellis2
    mattellis2 Posts: 152
    37.5 miles with the local club tonight. i got dropped about 2/3 of the way through. my goodness those guys have some strong legs!

    137 for the month for me so far.

    -matt
  • jimmacdonald
    jimmacdonald Posts: 93 Member
    55.62 Total Miles so far

    So 200 is doable. :glasses:

    Cheers
    Jim
  • TheBigYin
    TheBigYin Posts: 5,686 Member
    1/10/2011 - 24.40Km - (15.16 miles) - 1,457Kcal - local loop out of the front door
    3/10/2011 - 24.37km - 48.77km total - (30.30 miles) - 1564 Kcal (3021 kcal total) - windy, windy, WINDY!
    4/10/2011 - 21.01km - 69.78km total - (43.35 miles) - 1323kcal (4344 kcal total) - mtb instead of roadbike - still WINDY!
    5/10/2011 - 20.61km - 90.39km total - (56.16 miles) - 1293kcal (5637 kcal total) - mtb again
    7/10/2011 - 21.04km - 111.43km total - (69.23 miles) - 1319kcal (6956 kcal total) - mtb once again

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  • carbonboy
    carbonboy Posts: 729
    Week 1 (Partial) = 71
    Week 2 = (Mon. 59, Tue. 37, Wed. 0 , Thu. 37, Fri. 18 , Sat. , Sun. )
  • TDSeest
    TDSeest Posts: 1,089 Member
    23 miles today; sitting at 102 miles for October.
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