Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Audax => Topic started by: Nuncio on 23 February, 2015, 05:42:49 am
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Off 15 minutes ago.
Approaching 10,000 miles.
Go Steve go.
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Looking like the 10,000 will come up going through Marsh Gibbon....... ;D ;D ;D
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I reckon he's nailed that. Time for a press release?
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Yep - tracker showing 25.3 between Aynho and Fritwell which I believe brings up the 10,000.
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But he turned off before MG, the big tease!
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10,000 miles in less than 2 months. Wow.
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Chapeau!
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Incredible :-)
More than twice my annual target.
Wussing out of riding for all sorts of reasons, mainly weather-related, and every time I do so, I think, But Steve's out in it, has been since 5.30, and he'll do 200 miles today. Doesn't make me any less wussy though!
Amazing stuff, go Steve!!
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10,000 miles in less than 2 months. Wow.
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Hat!
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But he turned off before MG, the big tease!
Maybe we should refer to this as "Teasing the Gibbon"..as in "Today Steve will be teasing the Gibbon" ;D
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10,000 miles in less than 2 months. Wow.
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Incroyable!
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Incredible performance. Go Steve!
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And the scary bit is that, if things go to plan, this will be the slowest 10,000. In the summer he plans to knock them out every 40 days or less.
Judging by the flag on top of the building near my office, there's a brisk wind out there so the miles out to Cirencester will have been hard won. Fingers crossed that it stays in the west and blows him home.
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On his way back now and, judging by the speeds on the trackleaders site, taking full advantage of the tailwind.
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Tarzan is off and
running cycling.
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Steve has chosen Chipping Norton as one of his "vias". That is a bit steep, being the highest point in Oxfordshire. From memory, every road has a chevron.
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My fading memory-branes recall the A361 between Banbury and Chippy as not being outrageously scenic though it is oft-times frequented by Clarksonalikes.
Sunny, windy and raining in E17 ???
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10,000 miles demands that we hang out more
flags Marsh Gibbon tea towels, surely?
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The A361 through Chipping Norton is about 500m at 5% on the north side of town, and
100m at 19% 450m at 4.5% on the south side, the centre of town being at the bottom.
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19 perfuckingcent??? My ligaments crack in sympathy. Once did thank on a cycle path in Austria, but I was young then.
Titfer!
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Looks likehe might be heading for a Gibbon.
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19 perfuckingcent??? My ligaments crack in sympathy.
Sorry, measured wrongly, using the distance for last leg rather than the total distance.
The south side is about 4.5% at 450m
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I think a Gibbon is now unavoidable!
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I think a Gibbon is now unavoidable!
Although the tracker cuts the corner, I think there has indeed been a Gibbon.
You can see Steve's mind at work in these days of uncertain weather. Have a proven route of a certain mileage and then, if there is time and the conditions are not too foul, add extra distance on familiar roads. That level of focus and concentration is almost as admirable as the physical resilience of riding the distance day in day out.
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I think a Gibbon is now unavoidable!
Although the tracker cuts the corner, I think there has indeed been a Gibbon.
You can see Steve's mind at work in these days of uncertain weather. Have a proven route of a certain mileage and then, if there is time and the conditions are not too foul, add extra distance on familiar roads. That level of focus and concentration is almost as admirable as the physical resilience of riding the distance day in day out.
Indeed. The more I have watched this epic playing out, the more I am thinking that the mental approach is arguably more important than the physical side. If you are mega fit (as we know Steve & Kurt are), then it becomes a war of mental aggression - not with each other, but with the soul destroyimg boredom of riding day after day after day after day...you get the picture!
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A quick look at his trace suggests that he may finish a bit short of average mileage today - unless he chucks in a quick loop right near the end.
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I think a Gibbon is now unavoidable!
Although the tracker cuts the corner, I think there has indeed been a Gibbon.
You can see Steve's mind at work in these days of uncertain weather. Have a proven route of a certain mileage and then, if there is time and the conditions are not too foul, add extra distance on familiar roads. That level of focus and concentration is almost as admirable as the physical resilience of riding the distance day in day out.
Indeed. The more I have watched this epic playing out, the more I am thinking that the mental approach is arguably more important than the physical side. If you are mega fit (as we know Steve & Kurt are), then it becomes a war of mental aggression - not with each other, but with the soul destroyimg boredom of riding day after day after day after day...you get the picture!
So what you are saying is that our banter about Gibbons and other similar place names is an essential part of Steve's support structure - to keep him mentally occupied with setting us topics of mundane conversation.
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Today was not a good day to be out on a bike, so a shorter day today would seem sensible. I motorbiked up the M5 in heavy rain and massive amounts of standing water and spray. Just before I got to work, it turned into a blizzard.
Hoping to cycle in tomorrow (40km). Looking better.
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323.9 km
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In this weather? Amazing.
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Another extraordinary day. Over 2000m of climbing, too.
There's something odd about yesterday's Strava figures as shown on the OYTT website. Surely Steve didn't really spend more than 21hrs riding!?
Go Steve!
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There's something odd about yesterday's Strava figures as shown on the OYTT website. Surely Steve didn't really spend more than 21hrs riding!?
The ride is listed as starting at one minute past midnight.
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Another extraordinary day. Over 2000m of climbing, too.
There's something odd about yesterday's Strava figures as shown on the OYTT website. Surely Steve didn't really spend more than 21hrs riding!?
Go Steve!
He chose a hilly route between Burford and Cirencester (both ways!) via scenic and touristy Bibury; flatter to have taken Swindon road from Burford to Lechlade and then flat to Ciren. I know, as this was my commute to work from Ciren to RAF Brize Norton in the early 1980s.
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300+kms today :o :o :o My Gob is smacked!!
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The ride is listed as starting at one minute past midnight.
Ah, a glitch - thanks, that explains it. I guess this will be adjusted some time, but not really important. It's distance that counts.
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There's something odd about yesterday's Strava figures as shown on the OYTT website. Surely Steve didn't really spend more than 21hrs riding!?
Garmin 1000 failure again, looks like a track from the etrex that's hasn't been reset before starting. He's lucky it wasn't before midnight as that would have registered as the day before on Strava just for confusion.
The ride is listed as starting at one minute past midnight.
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I think a Gibbon is now unavoidable!
Although the tracker cuts the corner, I think there has indeed been a Gibbon.
You can see Steve's mind at work in these days of uncertain weather. Have a proven route of a certain mileage and then, if there is time and the conditions are not too foul, add extra distance on familiar roads. That level of focus and concentration is almost as admirable as the physical resilience of riding the distance day in day out.
Indeed. The more I have watched this epic playing out, the more I am thinking that the mental approach is arguably more important than the physical side. If you are mega fit (as we know Steve & Kurt are), then it becomes a war of mental aggression - not with each other, but with the soul destroyimg boredom of riding day after day after day after day...you get the picture!
So what you are saying is that our banter about Gibbons and other similar place names is an essential part of Steve's support structure - to keep him mentally occupied with setting us topics of mundane conversation.
Absolutely. As svidenced by the various Gibbon teases i n the last week.