SwissVan

Maybe they are doing something wrong......? Personally I don't get it, doing all the km's in one go. As far as I know the challenge originated all around cycling 500km (in winter weather) between Christmas Eve and New Years Eve. Sure, things evolve, for example the southern hemisphere does not have winter weather during this time and the challenge is open to virtual rides and E-bikes. There will always be some who will push the envelope...... As NSBB said "Clearly this challenge is too 'light' for the over achievers. Best someone start a 1000k challenge for next year".... Then they can do it in < 2 days....

It’s from the Northerner hemisphere 🤘

Wanna swop weather?

For those with Rouvy and not able to ride outdoors, Rouvy has a Rapha 500 challenge starting tomorrow. Have fun 😝

sTrue With age comes wisdom🤔

Semigrate to GP not an option then 😉

Memories of the swim chaos then having to fight of draft dodgers for 5 hours or so before fighting nausea on the walk/jog….. Think I’ll give it a miss 😆 Have fun

I’d be interested to know why you say the bit in bold, would it be related to his salary requirements or MTB interests, or………?

Moving your water bottle cages to behind your seat (would need an attachment to your seat rails) also worth considering. While providing some aero benefits be warned there are risks involved, it’s easy to drop your drinks bottle while reaching behind and depending how high the bottles sit it can make getting on and off the bike tricky (getting your leg over). As mentioned previously, the biggest time savings are from TT bars and aero rims. Get used to riding on the TT bars and being comfortable in the TT position so you can use them all the time. Do some brick sessions in training to get used to running after cycling. Practice your transitions and limit lost time in the transition by riding and running in the same clothing.

It’s size 53 so probably only a 500ml water bottle at the best

Ja nee, at my age KOMs are not a factor, I use strava mostly to “spy” on my friends. There is a time trail series (running and cycling) that I do every year which uses strava to record the participants times and other data like meters climbed. It will be interesting to see if this would still work in 2025.

Reading this makes me wonder if it’s not time to go back to the simple life…..like when I used to run with a Timex Iron Man indiglo with electroluminescent lighting and track my training by recording the times in a diary…. Distances where mostly a thumb suck or measured by driving the route, unless it was a club TT or race. Elevation / meters climbed, heart rate, watts……….Pfffft

Ja nee true, this place seriously needs an unrestricted thread where moderators are 🚫 Edit: This morning I toyed with the idea of starting a topic regarding the US election, but suspected it would be a waste of time due to moderation. Let’s hope they who yield the “thread locked” button don’t opt for the lazy option of locking the whole thread.

Viva Trump The world needs a distraction from our current goat show. World news could be great again for the next 4 years if he gets in.

The bit in bold…. Also been out of running for a few months due to non running related knee injury. Lots of physio exercises (physios can conjure up an unlimited amount of weird exercises that you never heard of until physio 😂) and yesterday day I managed a 4km walk / run on the treadmill with no knee pain. I’m not in your league of distance running but I hope slowly slowly getting back into it, that the trend continues.