Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Audax => Topic started by: Wowbagger on 22 February, 2015, 05:37:12 am
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Insomniac's hour. He's not started yet.
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It's just gone on.
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Good morning to everyone, especially to Steve!
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52nd day. One-seventh of the way through the project. Will he manage the 217 miles needed to make 10000 for the year?
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53rd day surely?
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yes 53rd day now. No he won't be doing 217 mls today but will have the 10 ,000 miles under his belt on the way to his second breakfast tomorrow.
:thumbsup:
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yes 53rd day now. No he won't be doing 217 mls today but will have the 10 ,000 miles under his belt on the way to his second breakfast tomorrow.
:thumbsup:
It is THE most beautiful morning here ( so hopefully also in Dorsetshire ;) ) cold but clear and a loveerrrllee sunrise, a great day for 217 miles (not by me though ) :thumbsup:
ALLEZ ALLEZ ALLEZ STEVE
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Heading north west rather than for the Test Valley.
There be hills - unless he is planning a huge day?
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Go Steve!
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Heading north west rather than for the Test Valley.
There be hills - unless he is planning a huge day?
Just doing a little out and back on the flat bit to add some extra miles. I think the lure of the 10,000 will be there and he will play it by ear as to how he is going. Wouldn't be surprised if there are a couple of other little circuits added during the day.
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I dream of being able to think of that stretch of road as "flat"!
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I've got to go into work this morning :( which is close to where TG is riding back through today (hopefully) so I think I'll be playing 'Hunt the Steve' in a little while :thumbsup:
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Saw that NW spur on firing up and thought the tracker had gone ape.
Just savouring the aftertaste of my 2nd coffee and thinking that if I did 140k today I'd reach the total Steve reached on his 4th day of riding.
Maybe a 3rd coffee is indicated.
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I guess that he won't go for 217 today.
He may, or he may not. Steve will decide.
In Steve we trust.
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I managed to catch up with Steve on his audacious loop this morning. He got to enjoy some fine views.
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31223201/22nd%20Feb/20150222_072844.jpg)
Despite the fact that it was between -3 and 0 all the way between Blandford and Wimborne he is in good spirits. Both Steve and his bike looked in fine fettle. The road was well gritted and ice free. But not flat. He plans to retrace yesterday's route for anyone out Steve hunting. He doesn't think he'll get the 10,000 today. I might have mentioned that Wowbagger is running a book on it ;D
These chaps seemed particularly unperturbed by his passing
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31223201/22nd%20Feb/20150222_072816.jpg)
Which was nice, as they could be in his breakfast in a couple of months time.
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53rd day surely?
Bugger. I'm a day older than I thought I was! :-\
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That red suit makes him look chubby around the mid-riff. If he grew a beard and bleached it, by Xmas he could get a job delivering Xmas presents.
"Mummy, what has Father Christmas left us?"
"A string of Sausages and a BOGOF voucher for the 'Spoons"
Go Santa
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Gale force winds forecast for this afternoon.
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Yep - that is why team chose to relocate him last night - original plan was Lowestoft again - which would have been a right B back into the rising wind today. So a total switch of direction for yesterday - to make today easier.
Team is doing its best to help Mr TG
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Yep - that is why team chose to relocate him last night - original plan was Lowestoft again - which would have been a right B back into the rising wind today. So a total switch of direction for yesterday - to make today easier.
Team is doing its best to help Mr TG
Can team though keep this nasty horrid rain away from him though?
After a lovely sunrise it`s now heavy sleet / rain and spreading steadily eastwards...... :(
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He plans to retrace yesterday's route for anyone out Steve hunting.
Got close enough to feel the ripples in the space-time continuum in Steve's wake - but not close enough to actually see him.
I was out the door just before TGS posted the above and was betting on Steve going for a 2nd breakfast in Romsey rather than direct retrace so I missed him by a couple of miles.
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I'm glad I'm indoors just now. It's horrible out. Unfortunately got work tomorrow. Neither bike nor motorbike appeal.
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Yes me too, very glad I did the big ride of the week yesterday in the cold and can now procrastinate further about planting broad beans.
To think I'd have to go out and ride again all day and into the evening in this is a horrid thought. Steve's determination is ever dumbfounding.
Good luck Steve :thumbsup:
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Team is doing its best to help Mr TG
Team is doing a belter!
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Just got in from the club ride its really nasty out, my thoughts were with Steve
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Not long got in from taking CET Junior out for a ride. It started raining in CET Towers (Basingstoke) exactly on forecast at 1pm, so suspect Steve will go back the way he came yesterday and call it a day just short of the 10,000.
10,000 miles by Feb23rd. Almost certainly the earliest in a year its ever been done.
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Just got in from the club ride its really nasty out, my thoughts were with Steve
I chose rabbit's 'day to ride' yesterday and had a great 200 over to Oxford and Shrivenham. I rode a Clock route; had I gone AC might have seen TG around Shrivenham. Nice to choose your weather - not Steve's option. THAT makes a big difference.
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Been out to the bike shop. Not far, but it's the first time I've been able to get on a bike for about a week. We had quite enough of the weather. All the more respect for Steve, banging the miles out day after day, whatever.
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Steve is obviously getting faster as I didn't get to Wellow fast enough to see him go past and despite going up towards Romsey for a few miles I didn't manage to get a sighting of the Red-backed TeethGrinder, bum ;)
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Looks like Steve might pass through a certain village later today!
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He rode along my local roads this afternoon...very cold, very rainy, very windy, very unpleasant.
It's days like these that demand the my ultimate respect , it's just ugly out there.
Go Steve (Sorry I missed you for lunch in Stockbridge, I'm sure you'll be back for lunch on me).
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Yeah, 2 hours of sleet and winds were enough for me. Almost chickened out, but this was one of those things Steve's inspired me to do.
I hope it wasnt as bad for him.
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Jeezus it's effin' unpleasant out there.
It'd be piss-easy if he was riding in warm, Florida sunshine, eh?
Go Steve, GO!
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Jeezus it's effin' unpleasant out there.
It'd be piss-easy if he was riding in warm, Florida sunshine, eh?
For World Records (any Record?) folk tend to forget the circumstances. They just remember who and how long/far. Weather is selected in the Planning phase, just like all the other factors: team, finance, equipment, date (which year), location. Do it in UK - we know our climate? Do it in Florida it seems you buy traffic?
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Today I did 140 km and I'm bloody knackered. That's just 0.435 Standard Steves.
As Wobbly put it,
Go Steve, GO!
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He's passing Le Manoir. Hope they hand him a Michelin starred sausage as he goes by. He deserves it on a shitty night like this.
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There has to be a publicity opportunity there. The next time anyway.
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<listening to led zep and thinking about Steve tackling those roads south and east of Oxford in the rain.
Its a lonely lonely lonely ride....
Remarkable.
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Looks like he's got a pretty good tailwind, even if it is really grim out there.
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Steve has a Gibbon in his sights.
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<listening to led zep and thinking about Steve tackling those roads south and east of Oxford in the rain.
Its a lonely lonely lonely ride....
Remarkable.
It was when Tommy Goodwin rode as well.
If people are so obsessed with futile comparisons between riders they might like to consider him too.
It makes his achievement back in 1939 even the more remarkable. He had the same kind of English conditions. How do we know the winter wasn't worse for him? Would I like to be out there? Nah. Never in a million. But as winter's go - this isn't that bad at all.
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Isn't it generally accepted that the first couple of months of 1939 were worse than the first couple of months of 2015 ??? Which in part accounts for why Steve is so far ahead of where Tommy was.
However, good point. We are currently seeing the prologue. The main event will be from April to August.
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We're getting excited about the possibility of Steve reaching 10,000 miles on day 53, but the 31 days of July have 9000 miles on the 87129 target.
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31223201/FullYear.jpg)
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He's passing Le Manoir. Hope they hand him a Michelin starred sausage as he goes by. He deserves it on a shitty night like this.
Not sure what reception he would get- my wife and I cycled there last year for our 10 year anniversary celebration and they looked aghast that we had come all the way from London!
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<listening to led zep and thinking about Steve tackling those roads south and east of Oxford in the rain.
Its a lonely lonely lonely ride....
Remarkable.
It was when Tommy Goodwin rode as well.
If people are so obsessed with futile comparisons between riders they might like to consider him too.
It makes his achievement back in 1939 even the more remarkable. He had the same kind of English conditions. How do we know the winter wasn't worse for him? Would I like to be out there? Nah. Never in a million. But as winter's go - this isn't that bad at all.
You can bet that Steve's weatherproofing is a hell of a lot better, too.
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Strava up - 308km
Chapeau.
All miles are hard earned, but today, especially so.
Sleep well.
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25 miles to go until Steve reaches the 10,000 milestone. Here's hoping he hits the magic number as he passes through Marsh Gibbon!
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Great stuff...I was thinking of how Steve must've been getting through today's weather...I suspect he was head down, in his own world, spinning his legs at a steady & consistent pace & thinking about his dinner tonight ;D :thumbsup:
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25 miles to go until Steve reaches the 10,000 milestone.
Which is my annual mileage target :thumbsup:
GO STEVE
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Top cycling today in that rain, which was bloomin cold! this is simply amazing stuff
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I looked out the window earlier & said bollox to that & I only needed to do 31miles.
The man's a machine :o
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I did the Primrose Path yesterday and as usual, I rode in from Dorchester to Corscombe which although beautiful, at first was a somewhat nerve testing experience with ice everywhere and temperatures around -2 at the outset (7:30). Then the ride itself started. It started to rain and blow a bit - the last 10 miles being something of a challenge with the gale pushing you across the lanes as the trees creaked worryingly beside you.
From Dorchester this day is normally a round trip with a start/finish in Dorchester taking you up to 100 miles but I had no desire to be blown over on the Chard to Maiden Newton road and opted for a lift back to Dorch.
More than one person commented that Steve would have had similar conditions - but for almost twice the distance.
Chapeau Steve.
H
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Looks like another Garmin 1000 failure yeterday as the ride elapsed time shows 20 hrs, a sure sign it was from the etrex.
Wonder if we will hear the true story of the reliability, maybe not. :-X
Understandable if people are giving you free stuff.