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Who else has signed up fer it then? Going to be a bit tricky at 22,575 feet between July 15-22 but at the moment I am pissed enough to say I'll have a go!
A combination of Rapha and Strava?
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I'm flying to Stockholm on the 15th... how high do planes fly?!
Flashy - can't make Rapha + Strava = D Fens 😉
i just signed up, but realistically i dont even know if im riding my bike then, havnt ridden it for a few weeks!! but will hit the southdowns maybe and see how we go, maybe..
Just signed up for it. Over 3000ft of climbing per day. I've no chance.
3000ft per day would be pretty do-able if I lived somewhere hilly. The only way to get sort of height around Fife is to do hill reps or a longer 50/60 miles ride which I don't have time for really. Signed up regardless though 😛
Bump for Sat night
How are we doing?
http://app.strava.com/rides/13491877
that's the way to do it...in a day...
yesterday morning got me to 8%, i reckon at a push I might get to 50%.
Managed to bag 1,545m last night which is approx 22% of total. Shall rest now till wednesday then do all three climbs over the Bwlch to see how I get on with the one day challenge. Judging by how my legs feel today I may be requiring my nans mobility scooter thursday!! Hows everyone else getting on?
2,004m yesterday, try and get another thousand this evening, want to get most of if done early in the week. If the weather is nice I will go for a big ride for the one day challenge but realistically wont get anywhere near the vertical climbing of some so not too fussed about it.
I reckon its easily achievable if you've got the time, like a weeks holiday for example. Did a 45 mile road yesterday with 1000 metres of climbing and a 25 mile ride on Saturday with around 500 metres, but my ride to work and back only accumulates around 450 metres climbing so not easily achievable for me.
Grr, I've been robbed, this morning's commute home from work started at nearly 900' for some reason (it should have been 35'). I've ended up recording around 600ft less than normal 😥
I've just uploaded the same ride to Garmin Connect, and using elevation correction it comes to 1300' (it only shows 873 on Strava).
I completed the Winter one Rapha did, din't do that well considering most of the folks that entered were based in the USA and/or Southern Europe.. but for an Englishman riding through our winter, I didn't do too bad at all.
Not entering this one, it's got Strava in it..
Out of interest what's considered a decent amount of climbing on a road ride?
ie 500 fet per 10 miles or something?
ie 500 fet per 10 miles or something?
round here (edge of dartmoor) I tend to average 1000ft/10 miles
So 1000 metres climbing in 45 miles isn't particulalry hilly then?
Out of interest what's considered a decent amount of climbing on a road ride?ie 500 fet per 10 miles or something?
Dunno, but it should be measured in metric units 🙂
Easier to round up to 500 feet than type 152.4m 🙂
Robin Squire From Lynton (on the edge of Exmoor) has already completed it. 😯
And he's still only second.
So 1000 metres climbing in 45 miles isn't particulalry hilly then?
it is, 1000ft isn't though.
got 6,568ft of climbing for 56 miles, or 1172ft/10 miles. Lots of nice 20% hills help with this but definitely don't help me get out of bed the next day
Managed 1489m yesterday. We'll have to see how the rest of week goes!
I'm on 2,052 m at the mo. Got the ride home and possibly a quick whizz out later depending on the weather/time. If I get both in then that should yield me another 764m or thereabouts.
I did 13,000 in a week back in May - in the Circle of Death. Unfortunately I now have bronchitis so will manage none this week.
I'm at a festival this weekend, so I won't get it. got 3500m on sunday over 125 miles, and at one point was 8th in the UK. My commute is 150Metres in a round trip, so no way of getting it this week, as I'm on training, with no extra time for longer rides
My mate also did that ride yesterday, and he's doing a C2C2C on saturday so he's a shoe in for it, gutted I can't do that....
Grrr, flippin Garmin 800 recorded even less climbing on today's commute home than it did yesterday (exactly the same route which should be 1300ft,ish). By the time I got home the GPS was telling me I was 750ft below sea level. 😯
This is just what I needed to get motivated to have a 'hard week' in this weather! 33%/2400m done so far. I live in S Wales so have the terrain on my side.
1500m climbing on the MTB on Sunday, round trip commute by bike yesterday (70 miles/1000m but the rubbish phone GPS only logged about 80% of the elevation gain :evil:). Will do another commute by bike on Friday, couple of 1-2 hour hilly MTB rides in the next three evenings, and see how much that leaves me to do over the weekend. I feel a Saturday morning trip over the Bwlch before meeting the club run coming on...
43% now. Ride home might bring it to 50%. Going to be tough to complete now - fell race on Saturday and away on hol first thing Sunday.
I'm new to Strava, so sorry if this is a daft question.
The rules of the challenge are as follows
Each meter you climb while cycling must be logged on the Site and cannot be inputted manually. For more information regarding how to log your rides on the Site, please see Strava’s How It Works page. Any form of entry and participation in the Skill Challenge other than that described herein is void.
Does that mean I have to record all rides using the phone app? The reason I ask is I'm not sure the battery will last long enough so was thinking of logging using a garmin etrex and uploading to the site...or is that classed as inputting manually?
logging via Garmin is fine. I logged a ride on Sunday using a Garmin 500 no problem, and it shows in the Rapha Challenge. There's an option in Strava to manually enter a ride via keyboard entry. These 'rides' won't be valid.
Upto 2027m now. I very much doubt Im going to make it but hey ho its the taking part & all that jazz.
Only managed 1 ride so far but just shy of 1500m done, might kill me if I try for the lot. Knew I should have gone out in the rain earlier
56% done now. Just said on Twitter that it's becoming more the Cirque de Trench Foot than the Circle of Death :0/
82% today and I am [u]knackered[/u]!
round here (edge of dartmoor) I tend to average 1000ft/10 miles
That's pretty hilly, I'm on the north edge of the Yorkshire Moors, the best I can string together is 500m in 15miles which is arround the same. If I wanted to do more it'd have to be hill repeats to avoid flat-ish linking bits. Any hillier than 1000ft/10miles and I reckon you'd be looking at gradients too steep to ride up. Yesterdays TDF stage was about 1000ft/10miles and looked pretty brutal!
As I said most of my rides are over 1000ft/10 miles (1100ft usually) so don't see why it would be too steep to ride at higher than this? steepest around here is 25% with most around 10% for any significant amount of time with steeper ramps. Hard work yes but definitely nowhere near unrideable.
Upto 2971m, I won't make it as I'm away for the next couple of days & no bike.. 😥
On 90% now. Gonna put this rascal to bed tomorrow morning. Get in!
85% for me, hoping to finish tomorrow as I've got to work on the weekend.
Only 4000 odd for me.
Had a bit of a brown chamois moment during some hill repeats this afternoon - i thought i was just feeling a bit sluggish but it was due to my brake pad rubbing slightly on the rim. It eventually caused the rim to heat up and the tube to pop. Fortunately it was the rear one so could keep control but not the most pleasant thing to happen at 40 mph! 😯
That's pretty hilly, I'm on the north edge of the Yorkshire Moors, the best I can string together is 500m in 15miles which is arround the same. If I wanted to do more it'd have to be hill repeats to avoid flat-ish linking bits. Any hillier than 1000ft/10miles and I reckon you'd be looking at gradients too steep to ride up. Yesterdays TDF stage was about 1000ft/10miles and looked pretty brutal!
500m is ~1650ft, so over 15 miles that's about 1000ft/10miles.
Ive got a route that's about 3500ft in just over 20 miles but I save that for special occasions.
Done it!
Seemed appropriate to wear this jersey to finish and to go up the Rake (site of National hill climb competition)on the last ride.
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Done, extended commute to and from work everyday. Totally knackered, most riding I've done in a week at 300 klms.
MrSparkle - Member
Done it!
Seemed appropriate to wear this jersey to finish and to go up the Rake (site of National hill climb competition)on the last ride.
Chapeau to anyone who has completed this challenge and who rides up the rake! I'm working up to it, last couple of rides I've gone up to the turn-off, but stayed left and headed back down towards Nuttall.
Matt
I completed today, it's been way easier than the Specialized Climbing Challenge earlier in the year.
Just finished the challenge , with an easy recovery ride this morning 😀
2758m to go and only 1 day left. Going to be 5 laps of 2 local hills if I want it, and looking at the number in and finished it's better odds than the lottery for a prize 🙂
Tried to hit 2500 today but not enough food or time so earlier start and more bananas
[url= http://app.strava.com/athletes/378680 ]I did[/url] 5477 metres last week, and am about to knock this one off with a wee Leadhills area 'Rough Stuff' scoot on my tourer. I'm at about 70%, if today doesn't finish it, tomorrow will 😉
Completed this morning on my zesty. Would have finished yesterday if the ken laidlaw short route was the ascent advertised. Was great to finish on top of the three brethren in the sunshine having ridden so much Tarmac in the mank.
All finished ...104% after todays ride .. fingers crossed for the Trek!!
Finished today. To be honest i'm glad its over, today was good as i could just do a normal long ride but the midweek nights and having to do loops to get the maximum elevation in the shortest time/distance got a bit tedious after a while. Wish i had some proper mountains to go up!
Do you need to do anything now or are you automatically entered into the prize draw?
When you complete you need to e-mail Rapha your address for the roundel and your frame size just in case you win the Madone.
[i]To receive your roundel once you have completed the challenge, please e-mail your name and postal address to: circle@rapha.cc, not forgetting to include the frame size you would like should you win the Trek. [/i]
just about to leave for my last chance to get the meters in, next post will either be success or failure (probably just jibbering really, wish I'd started on Monday)
Well done everybody who has finished and good luck to those aiming to finish today!
Heading out today to find an easy 900m for the other half to do this evening after work. She was u at 6 to get some metres in before work.
leaving it late as usual left me with about 120km and 3000m today.
That hurt a little, still it will all be worth it when the bike arrives
#edit
Cold beer now in hand
From above averaged 23m/Km or 46ft/mile (i think)
Had to go looking for the hills though plenty of repeats have enough 700-1000m loops if I had started on monday but probably looked like I was just doing lap training today just to keep the Km's down
I only managed 2,507m (36%), but that was [url= http://mactually.co.uk/?p=400 ]three[/url] [url= http://mactually.co.uk/?p=405 ]rides on[/url] [url= http://mactually.co.uk/?p=408 ]a SS[/url] MTB, so I'm claiming each metre is worth 2.8 metres 😉
Squeaked through on 7,017m/101% with 1600m of climbing on the MTB on Saturday.
Having a couple of days off the bike now!
Has anyone got an acknowledgement from the Rapha E-mail?
Decided to start this on Tuesday and only managed half the climbing, but good motivational tool. Will give it a proper go next year.
Good luck in the Trek comp to everyone who finished it.
No acknowledgement to the rapha email for me
Nothing from Rapha as yet. They've probably got around nine thousand emails in their inbox though, so I'll give them an hour or two to respond 😀
only 2500 I reckon, I'm on 104% and have only slipped down from 800th to 1250 today. Better odds that the lottery
Did anybody hear owt from Rapha? I've been away and I have got zip so far. 🙁
Nope. The only thing I've heard is th OH didn't qualify as she was short by 42m, even though at 2330 on the last night she was 150m over and strava did what they do with the totals which wiped it out.
Did anybody hear owt from Rapha? I've been away and I have got zip so far.
Did you pop your details in on [url= http://rapha.createsend3.com/t/y-l-jytkvd-glkdjidp-z/ ]their website[/url]?
(Not that I've heard owt yet)
Yeah, I did that Dave. PS Good luck at SITS with the dream team. ;0)
Hey dave, fancy going for a ride sometime as i'm pretty sure i live just round the corner from you? 😀
Sent the e-mail then did the website thing after they sent that too.
Well today i received my rapha roundel, in fact i did so well i got 2 😀 , even though i did'nt do twice the amount of climbing, sadly no bike though 🙁
picture of said roundel?
Never done this before but here goes.
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edit: link here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/85390626@N03/7824323212/in/photostream
Taa daa!
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(Obviously it's about the riding, not the mini tea coasters...)
Hey dave, fancy going for a ride sometime as i'm pretty sure i live just round the corner from you?
Oop, just saw this! Soz! Whereabouts are you based?
nice! get it on eBay
Whereabouts are you based?
Lostock Hall. i noticed you raced at midweek madness but placed considerably higher than me, wouldn't be anything too difficult for you tbh 😀
Oh right, you literally are right round the corner then!
Yes, we'll sort out a ride, I'll dig me diary out 🙂