Tour De France Challenge - 21 Days in July
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Should be 2 motivated teams with a pair of Yorkshiremen shouting at 'em from #9... Pity there isn't a Team Time Trial - we could really give 'em some grief :laugh:0
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Silly is quite appropriate at the moment. Just contemplating the challenge ahead. I think others will beat me hands down on distance, but there are plenty of hills to pick from where I live. It will be interesting to see how I fair against others when comparing the climbs.
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I'll definately not be in with a shout for any of the shirts TBH - I'm pretty sure that there are a couple of people who're trouncing me in June, and I don't have much opportunity to up my distance for July. As to the Green or KoM, well - i'm too old and slow (average of 23.2kph if I manage road miles only, or dragged down to 22.2kph if I include the off-road stuff!) for green, and - well - it's just not that hilly around here - my regular training loop is pretty much set up to take me up and down every decent sized hill within a 10 mile radius of my home, and I still only get maybe 420M of climb in a 50km ride. That barely registers as a ripple on the GPS!0
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KOM Shirt design's here...One for you guy's that climb like homesick angels...
And The Fast Men's Shirt... Again, I doubt I'll need to order one in 6XL (italian sizing, don'cha just love it! - that's a 48" chest according to Santini BTW!)
Don't forget though... according to the rules - BLACK SHORTS (Rule #14/#15
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Hi Big Yin,
I live here where every ride is a hilly ride. Count on me not to be fast but to put up quite a climb here or there. Just give me a number and tell me where i'm at!
Ha
TT
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Hi Big Yin,
I live here where every ride is a hilly ride. Count on me not to be fast but to put up quite a climb here or there. Just give me a number and tell me where i'm at!
Ha
TT
Just grab the list from katozdad's post ^^^ up there a couple of entries ago, and copy your name in against whichever number feels good for you... I'm concentrating on the mileage speed and altitude logging system at the moment, but I'll have race numbers to Issue by Friday Night (english time!)0 -
Just because I was curious about how much 1/9 of each day would be...
Km/Rider -- Miles/rider -- Day/Route/Total KM
00.7 -- 00.4 -- P Saturday 30 June Liège > Liège 6.4 km
22.0 -- 13.6 -- 1 Sunday 1 July Liège > Seraing 198 km
23.1 -- 14.3 -- 2 Monday 2 July Visé > Tournai 207.5 km
21.9 -- 13.6 -- 3 Tuesday 3 July Orchies > Boulogne-sur-Mer 197 km
23.8 -- 14.8 -- 4 Wednesday 4 July Abbeville > Rouen 214.5 km
21.8 -- 13.5 -- 5 Thursday 5 July Rouen > Saint-Quentin 196.5 km
23.1 -- 14.3 -- 6 Friday 6 July Épernay > Metz 207.5 km
22.1 -- 13.7 -- 7 Saturday 7 July Tomblaine > La Planche des Belles Filles 199 km
17.5 -- 10.9 -- 8 Sunday 8 July Belfort > Porrentruy 157.5 km
04.6 -- 02.9 -- 9 Monday 9 July Arc-et-Senans > Besançon 41.5 km
21.6 -- 13.4 -- 10 Wed. 11 July Mâcon > Bellegarde-sur-Valserine 194.5 km
16.4 -- 10.2 -- 11 Thursday 12 July Albertville > La Toussuire - Les Sybelles 148 km
25.1 -- 15.6 -- 12 Friday 13 July Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne > Annonay Davézieux 226 km
24.1 -- 14.9 -- 13 Saturday 14 July Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux > Le Cap d’Agde 217 km
21.2 -- 13.2 -- 14 Sunday 15 July Limoux > Foix 191 km
17.6 -- 10.9 -- 15 Monday 16 July Samatan > Pau 158.5 km
21.9 -- 13.6 -- 16 Wed. 18 July Pau > Bagnères-de-Luchon 197 km
15.9 -- 09.9 -- 17 Thursday 19 July Bagnères-de-Luchon > Peyragudes 143.5 km
24.7 -- 15.3 -- 18 Friday 20 July Blagnac > Brive-la-Gaillarde 222.5 km
05.9 -- 03.7 -- 19 Saturday 21 July Bonneval > Chartres 53.5 km
13.3 -- 08.3 -- 20 Sunday 22 July Rambouillet > Paris Champs-Élysées 120 km
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hmmmm. fast "mens" shirt? does that mean there will be a fast "ladies" shirt?
They're stretchy, you can stretch your own bumps into them... :laugh:0 -
OK - I'm in - the first ride I do will be on Sunday 1 July about 47 mils, followed by Monday 82 miles & Tuesday 77 miles; Rest Day; Thursday 76 miles; Friday 61 miles; Saturday 61 miles. First three days will be about 2000 feet elevation per day (Willamette River Valley in Central Oregon) followed by about 4000 feet of climbing each day as we run down the Coast of Southern Oregon. Won' be back on-line any earlier than Monday 9 July and maybe not until the 10th. Will try to post Garmin data although cadence meter may not be functional for this ride.0
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OK - I'm in - the first ride I do will be on Sunday 1 July about 47 mils, followed by Monday 82 miles & Tuesday 77 miles; Rest Day; Thursday 76 miles; Friday 61 miles; Saturday 61 miles. First three days will be about 2000 feet elevation per day (Willamette River Valley in Central Oregon) followed by about 4000 feet of climbing each day as we run down the Coast of Southern Oregon. Won' be back on-line any earlier than Monday 9 July and maybe not until the 10th. Will try to post Garmin data although cadence meter may not be functional for this ride.
Are you intending to climb the hill behind your profile picture, Amiller? If so I give up now. There are no hills like that where I live. :laugh:0 -
That should give us a cracking start to the first week - I seem to be pretty much hitting 50km most rides on the roadbike at the moment, or 35km if i'm on the roadbike. My riding schedule normally runs to 3 days on, one day off - and I'm trying to time it so I start a 3-day run on the Saturday 30th. Thing is, even the longest day is "only" just over 140 miles - between 9 of us, that SHOULD be eminently do-able without having to all synchronise our calendars and revise our schedules too much.
I posted this earlier - but if possible I'd appreciate if people can post their rides in as close a format to the following
With a view to logging all this, what I'd propose is this... for a given ride, you'd post the details in this format (I've taken a few of my recent june rides as examples...)
16/06/2012 - 37.85km - 2h17m16s - 409m - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/189489816
17/06/2012 - 55.78km - 2h31m18s - 474m - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/189799150
18/06/2012 - 90.65km - 3h36m59s - 320m - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/190328912
19/06/2012 - 49.23km - 2h20m12s - 424m - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/190663418
20/06/2012 - no ride
21/06/2012 - no ride
22/06/2012 - 36.24km - 2h05hm51s - 298m - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/1915516180 -
Here go's for the Next Team then...
311 - Snowridesbikes
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315 - twinkietigress
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319 - Katozdad
OK I'll do my best TT 0 -
That should give us a cracking start to the first week - I seem to be pretty much hitting 50km most rides on the roadbike at the moment, or 35km if i'm on the roadbike. My riding schedule normally runs to 3 days on, one day off - and I'm trying to time it so I start a 3-day run on the Saturday 30th. Thing is, even the longest day is "only" just over 140 miles - between 9 of us, that SHOULD be eminently do-able without having to all synchronise our calendars and revise our schedules too much.
I posted this earlier - but if possible I'd appreciate if people can post their rides in as close a format to the following
With a view to logging all this, what I'd propose is this... for a given ride, you'd post the details in this format (I've taken a few of my recent june rides as examples...)
16/06/2012 - 37.85km - 2h17m16s - 409m - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/189489816
17/06/2012 - 55.78km - 2h31m18s - 474m - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/189799150
18/06/2012 - 90.65km - 3h36m59s - 320m - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/190328912
19/06/2012 - 49.23km - 2h20m12s - 424m - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/190663418
20/06/2012 - no ride
21/06/2012 - no ride
22/06/2012 - 36.24km - 2h05hm51s - 298m - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/191551618
I don't have any of the high tech garmin info to share...will that be a problem. I can post my distance and time for each ride.0 -
I don't have any of the high tech garmin info to share...will that be a problem. I can post my distance and time for each ride.
It's not necessarily a problem, though the GPS tracking is partly there to ensure the rides are verifiable, in terms of distance, time and altitude. Cheapest way to get something like this if you have a smartphone (Android/iPhone) would be something like the Strava or Endomondo applications, which turn your phone into a gps tracker for the duration of the ride.
If there was an actual prize (other than bragging rights and the chance to have the "virtual" jersey in your gallery (complete with dossard numbers)) then I think we'd have to be strict and say from the outset that only tracked rides counted. As I'm neither cynical enough to worry that someone would cheat in a "fun" challenge nor actually in with a chance of getting any of the jerseys myself, for me it's immaterial - others may have stronger views either side of the argument...0 -
Hiya
Is there still time for me to play, please?
Second team
311 - Snowridesbikes
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315 - twinkietigress
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317 - Chezmoss
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319 - Katozdad
Thanks :-)
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Welcome Aboard - the more, the merrier - or at lease the more riders, the easier it is to hit the total km's :laugh:0
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I forgot to ask early on; the total mileage per day is for all rides, or should we just submit our longest ride of the day?0
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Tom - I know your a riding animal, and sometimes do multiple rides - just put an entry in for each one, and my spreadsheet will do the rest...
Oh - and if the ride spans midnight as some of yours have, I'll book it as whichever day needs the mileage :laugh:0 -
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thanks. :-)
I will track my road rides with Strava.
As you'll see i not known for hitting the hills or distance
but hope to give
Cav a run for the green jersey! lol
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Thank you kind sir...0
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I will be out of town on Saturday, but will be starting on Sunday with a long night ride. I will be using an app on my phone to track my miles. I will send you the link to the map with every post.0
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Dossards for team 2
Dossard_311
Dossard_315
Dossard_317
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Thank you BigYin. Loving the Dossard. Will put on my profile pic straight away. Already put it onto my Profile pic for Endomondo.0
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Thank you BigYin. Loving the Dossard. Will put on my profile pic straight away. Already put it onto my Profile pic for Endomondo.
There's an Idea - i'll probably stick mine in the Strava Profile Picture as well as on here when the race starts. I keep playing with different ones at the moment - just to test how the different Shirts should look! At the moment it's the Plain old Team 1 Strip, with Dossard ready for the Prologue Time Trial. 0 -
thank you TheBigYin,
I've never been so excited about receiving a race number before!
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can i still get in??0
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Joined Oct 2011
Posts: 74
Wed 06/27/12 06:05 AM
Hiya
Is there still time for me to play, please?
Second team
311 - Snowridesbikes
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313 - discodaddy61
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315 - twinkietigress
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317 - Chezmoss
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319 - Katozdad
Thanks :-)
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hope i did this right i joined i hope
Joined Oct 2011
Posts: 74
Wed 06/27/12 06:05 AM
Hiya
Is there still time for me to play, please?
Second team
311 - Snowridesbikes
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313 - discodaddy61
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315 - twinkietigress
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317 - Chezmoss
318 -
319 - Katozdad
Thanks :-)
Looks fun!0 -
#313 - sold to discodaddy61 - come on everyone 4 more places up for grabs - get 'em while they're hot...0
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Here we go then - Dossard 313
Dossard_313
(I've been waiting all week to let that one loose...)0
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