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104 miles with 9000 feet of climbing in May '18, I've very rarely done more than 40 over the past couple of years, but 80 around Longleat the other week has made me ponder trying to do my second ever century.
never exceeded 30 miles unless uplifted.
110km MTB
106km Road
Road - Chase the sun, Poole to Bude - 140miles plus prob another 5 or 6 to the car. It rained hard the whole way until we hit Devon. Character building
On mtb, not sure, probably when a pair of us did all the trails in afan in a day. That was knackering. I remember blue scar was last and I both calfs cramping the whole climb.
@crazy-legs - The all in one 507km Full Fat Festive 500 loop that people do out of Bristol is definitely on my list.
85 miles when I did the South Peak loop. This was back in 2015 when I was doing quite a lot of training for a C2C ride. Funnily enough the C2C ride was split in two, so was technically shorter each day than a number of the training rides.
Now 40 miles seems like a long ride 😂
Club has just put together a circuit of Derbyshire – furthest roads east, west, south and north, lowest point in the county and a small diversion up to Flash. Think its 194 miles. A couple of idiots are looking at it as a day out, reckon it would make a lovely 3 day tour.
@MoreCashThanDash - have you got a route file for that please?
Flattish 340km road ride with mates in about 12 hours, but Mallorca 312 in 10.34 hours with 4,000m of climbing was harder.
265km on an mtb at Mountain Mayhem solo.
300km
100 mile road ride from Druridge Bay to Silloth on a hardtail. But mixed surface rides much harder: 90+ miles from Penrith to Sunderland then home or the 90+ miles from Chester-le-Street to Kielder Castle. I think I also did 10 laps of a 9 mile course at the Bontrager 24/12 one year.
I prefer to measure MTB rides in time rather than distance.
108 miles - on 3 separate occasions. Cheshire canal ring twice and Tour of Flanders sportive.
I find I get bored as much as knackered unless it's a really interesting route. About 7 hours generally.
100 miles, too many times on an old Clockwork. 65 miles on a 5" tyred Fatty must equate to a gazillion on a road bike?
Just short of 400 mles at 636KM did stop for a one hour shower and meal about 18h in as I decided wasn't n that much of a rush.
Shorter rides did à 200 km in about 5h30 long ago with 11 mates around 3000m of climbing(three proper moutans on that route).
514 km as part of a 600 km audax which included 5,625m climbing.
303 km on a fat bike for a solo 24h mtb race.
Edit - forgot 323 km mtb on day 10 of my Tour Divide ride. Not a very hilly day.
123 miles from Warwick to London down the Grand Union towpath. Knackered my knee and couldn't ride for 6 weeks.
MTB it's the SDW I did a few years ago, 104 miles in total.
In my occasional road riding days though I did just under 200 in a day riding from Bangor to Cardiff. Was the longest ride I'd ever done on a road bike by a good 150 miles and only did it as my then girlfriend's dad said that mountain bikers were unfit so had to prove him wrong. His club's big ride was two weeks after he made the comment so I just joined them. They all had bets I'd struggle to make 100 but I flew through it with no major issues. Oh the joys of being in your early 20's.
160 miles in the middle of usa, we saw the next town was that far away, rode there to find it was a cluster of houses. Literally nothing in between just a long straight road and a headwind all day. Camped in the garden, poor owner must get asked all the time.
I rode 316.3 miles on the road bike with two mates last August to raise some money for Charity and note one of the two’s 500th Covid furlough ride. From here in SW London out to Yeovil, down to Weymouth, along the south coast and back up from Shoreham. 20hrs riding and 23hrs total time. Great ride.
MTB. Two weeks before the road ride I did a triangle from Guildford down the SDW road along about half of SDW and back to Guildford. 112.6miles
I had good legs last summer!
Road/Gravel - 125 miles, rode to Elan valley from Carmarthen, took the drovers road to Teifi pools and back to Carmarthen from there.
MTB - 67, day 2 of the crossing in 2017
Penny Farthing - 107 miles last week doing CarTen last weekend
road ~65miles many years ago
MTB ~45 miles
I'm a gentle plodder with relaxed geometry. I can't believe some of the miles on this thread. Madness!
For me, 180km - not as far as some but I did hop off the bike then run a marathon straight after...
For me, 180km – not as far as some but I did hop off the bike then run a marathon straight after…
Well at least you're triing 🤣
(And if not, then mine's a pint 😂)
225km
SDW in a day also ~100 miles , it was very hot with no wind which added to the "experience"
I've done about 100miles on the road, it also included quite a few thousand feet of climbing/descending. It was in Mallorca and in no way was it the hardest ride I've done, smooth roads and good weather can make life much easier!
Nothing impressive but 170.5k on the road, charity ride from Leicester to Hunstanton. MTB is the 110k Lord of the Loops round the Dark Peak.
107miles off-road....was training for SDW so rode Winchester to Downs Link, up to join with NDW at Newlands then on to Dorking; was easier than doing SDW although longer distance as far less climbing!
Did Etape du Tour back in 2004 and I see someone has posted the route
https://www.bikemap.net/en/r/1059410/#6.5/45.186/2.108
240 km and 3,037m of climb. That's 149 miles with 9964 foot of climbing in old money. Shall we call it 150 miles and 10,000 foot of climb then. It certainly felt like it 🙂
Road - 150 miles Stratford to Snowdonia on a single speed track bike, on my own age 15, keep meaning to try & beat it.
Mtb - 135 miles solo at mountain mayhem 2010.
Brother will soon be joining the 300k miles club and maxed out at around 420 miles in one day some few years back.
137 Miles on road - a lovely solo ride from Bamburgh following the coast to castles route to north shields and finishing up at Swinton Park hotel for a posh family meal. Spoiled only by a an accidental dual carriage monmnt outside Stockton on Tees.
52 miles on MTB - solo Mary Townley Loop + travel from home. Many, many gates. Had to open them all myself.
208 miles with 5100m climbing, Yorkshire Beast sportive in 2018
102 miles on the road.
That was in the days of ancient non fancy cateye bike computers. We all kept going till we all had at least 100 miles registered.
122 miles through Nevada. This was halfway along a dead straight 14 miles. No cars in sight either way.
I’m about 99/101miles.
Did the same route in reverse next day too.
On a lightly loaded road bike.
Raised almost £200 for a local hospice.
I could (in those days) manage 100 miles on a loaded bike fairly easily, but the 2nd day was a lot harder.
First day i averaged 17.9mph.
2nd day it was 12mph.
Same route, no massive tail/headwinds to skew things, i was just ****ed on the 2nd day.
240 km and 3,037m of climb. That’s 149 miles with 9964 foot of climbing in old money. Shall we call it 150 miles and 10,000 foot of climb then. It certainly felt like it
Aye,that was some day oot,still couldn't believe how many had to walk up the climb at Le Puy Mary,bloody lightweights 😉
Double Fondo; Markykirk to Dunkeld with 4500ft of climbing. The worst part was getting near home and realising that another 3 miles would get me 200km. Legs were nae bad, bum was in ribbons.
@crazy-legs It's buried in our usual blizzard of FB posts and not up on the club Strava page for some reason - leave it with me!
Several 300k audaxes (snow roads and durness duress so not flat) one 350km ride over glenshee down to blairgowrie and onto the coast up to stonehaven
Did Arbroath to kinloch rannoch and back on my fixie to pass time one day over the moulin moor. That was fun
300 KM on an audax from Newcastle up to Alstone and then up to Scotland and back. Left about 8:00 and back a bit after one in the morning.. In a group most of the way so some following.
As a solo ride last summer on the 1st day of a bikepacking trip 261km from Kendal to Bangor. left Kendal about 5 in the morning, arrived in Bangor about 9:30 in the evening.
Yesterday a 170 ride from Surrey in to Sussex and back. Longest ride so far this year.
Since I posted in the other thread.
Longest "off road" was just under 100 miles (by about 3/4 of a mile as well).
Started at the dam busters museum at ladybower and ended at woodhall spa memorial. Cut throat bridge, stanage pole then over to chesterfield canal. Fairly flat after that (well once over the ridge nr the M1). Great day worse part was Clumber park, it was packed.
couldn’t believe how many had to walk up the climb at Le Puy Mary,bloody lightweights
Oh I don’t know, I was glad of the company 😀
312 miles at the TT 12hr national championships last year. Average speed was 26mph. Stopped for 8 minutes to replenish food, water and a couple of comfort breaks that cost me a podium. Some of the people above me only stopped for a minute 😳
Ride to the Sun and back a little bit ~ 130 miles
Kielder 100 (MTB), which IIRC was actually 102 miles. I thought my gouch was bleeding by the end 😅
205km on the Irish equivalent to the Fred whitton (Wicklow 200), which is tough as a big lad.
165km at twentyfour12 in 24hrs pairs on an orange segment, the perfect xc bike...
My longest rides are 118 miles of (mostly) roads from Darlington to Rothbury; the first two Kielder 100s (about 103 miles each); a couple of hilly road centuries.
200km. Done 200km three times, each time was tough going.
300km, or 180 miles in old money.
on Butties Brid trip audax. done it twice.
250 miles, 1 day, at 14 years old, dark-side club run back in the 70s, around the longest day of the year to avoid needing lights