first metric century :)

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done it, at last, have had to put it off for a month because of weather.
actual distance was 106.86, in 5 hours and 5 secs, took it fairly easy
cos all the big hills at the end, but aim was 20kph so felling pleased
with myself

What is that in english?

And why so slow?

Alan

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well i thought it was worth shouting about!

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Well done, I am also feelin pretty happy as I did my firsy 50 mile trip
earlier, took me 3.25, not that quick but then 3 months ago I didnt own
a bike! Still remember that first 5 mile run out and the 2 hours
recovery thinkin I had done well!

I think it will be a while before I can get over the 100 miles so well
done again!

Cheers

Mattboy

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done it, at last, have had to put it off for a month because of
weather. actual distance was 106.86, in 5 hours and 5 secs, took it
fairly easy cos all the big hills at the end, but aim was 20kph so
felling pleased with myself

What is that in english?

106.86km = 66.39 miles. But then, if you were really interested, you
could've done your own conversion.

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And why so slow?

The speed at which someone rides is relative to his abilities, and according
to his objectives. Don't you even know this? You some sort of newbie?

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done it, at last, have had to put it off for a month because of
weather. actual distance was 106.86, in 5 hours and 5 secs, took it
fairly easy cos all the big hills at the end, but aim was 20kph so
felling pleased with myself

What is that in english?

He wrote it in English.

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And why so slow?

Don't be rude. You have yet to get the hang of being polite on usenet yet.
Please do so.

Ambrose

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done it, at last, have had to put it off for a month because of weather.
actual distance was 106.86, in 5 hours and 5 secs, took it fairly easy
cos all the big hills at the end, but aim was 20kph so felling pleased
with myself

What is that in english?

106.86km in 5 hours 5secs.

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And why so slow?

Why faster?

Tony

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What is that in english?

You mean in English what?
RP, Liverpudlian, Mancunian, Cockney?
Or did you want Imperial measurements? (As used by those older than me who
can't grasp something as simple as working in units of ten, clue: fingers
and thumbs).

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And why so slow?

So I'll expect to see you hanging on Lances wheel again this year wearing
your strip for The Wait At Top club.
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Pete

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done it, at last, have had to put it off for a month because of
weather. actual distance was 106.86, in 5 hours and 5 secs, took it
fairly easy cos all the big hills at the end, but aim was 20kph so
felling pleased with myself

What is that in english?

8/5 of a mile 🙂

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And why so slow?

because i'd never rode so far in a day, and all the hills! the last 15k
i had to climb from sea level to way high, then drop down and do it
again 3 times! dont know the actual height, but the easiest hill was 16%

i could have used the totally flat cycle path but its not as satisfying

i usually average 26kph, although over an 8k journey i have averaged
36k, which did have a hill init aswell, nothing major but still a drop
down to 20 to go up it

plus ive only had my bike 6 weeks, am aiming for 30kph before i go to
uni and hopefully a bit quicker when i leave 3 years later, well thats
the plan 🙂

dyu mind me asking what speed you ride at? miles or km is fine 🙂

cheers to everyone who stood up for my slowness anyway

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cheers to everyone who stood up for my slowness anyway

It's not particularly slow for a leisure cyclist, and I think that term
applies to most of us on this NG.
Terrain and weather make a big difference too, for instance where I ride in
SE Leicestershire my average may be about 17mph (used to be a tad higher but
age has slowed me and it's not a race anyway) but riding around the Peak
district this drops to 12.5 mph on the road and into single figures
off-road.

My road bike is the only one fitted with a computer and while it's a point
of interest to see how far and how fast plus a gauge to my fitness, which I
like to keep on top of, at the end of the day the figures are irrelevent to
the wider world and the true measure of the ride is how much I enjoyed it.

Enjoy your riding and ignore [censored].
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Regards,
Pete

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What is that in english?

95400 Saxon poles a day

(more /usr/share/units.dat | grep axon)

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And why so slow?

Sounds a nice day out to me.

AC

Congrats!

I did my 1st 100km on Saturday as well! I managed an average of 20.4
km/h.

I managed to work mine so the 1st 50 was uphill against the wind, the
second downhill with wind behind.

Of course the wind dropped at the 1/2 way point, and i still managed
to find a 12% up on the way back!

fragg

Alan Holmes said:

And why so slow?

Why so insecure?

-dan

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Fraggle said:

Congrats!
I did my 1st 100km on Saturday as well! I managed an average of
20.4 km/h.
I managed to work mine so the 1st 50 was uphill against the wind, the
second downhill with wind behind.
Of course the wind dropped at the 1/2 way point, and i still managed to
find a 12% up on the way back!
fragg

cul, seems like a few of us reached milestones on sat! 1 month and
hopefully a 100miler! i always pla my route so the worst road is at the
start, and love to end riding on the coast with the hills so i have more
time to enjoy it! it was a double milestone for me aswell, firts time
i'd totalled 200 miles in a week, this week the aims 248 (400k) but ill
probably end up doing less, the wind didnt help today, added half an
hour to my usual 2 hour ride so i didnt go that extra 5 miles.

must be confusing for some this going between miles and k's! it onfuses
me sometimes! although i like to know both and it helps me climb those
horrible dual carriageway hills thinking what 5/8's of.., and if i drop
down 2k in pace how will that affect my time over a mile!

all good

must say i dont really post here alot, but get a lot of useful info by
searching through previous threads

Ciao

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Alan Holmes said:

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done it, at last, have had to put it off for a month because of
weather. actual distance was 106.86, in 5 hours and 5 secs, took it
fairly easy cos all the big hills at the end, but aim was 20kph so
felling pleased with myself

What is that in english?

8/5 of a mile 🙂

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And why so slow?

because i'd never rode so far in a day, and all the hills! the last 15k
i had to climb from sea level to way high, then drop down and do it
again 3 times! dont know the actual height, but the easiest hill was 16%

i could have used the totally flat cycle path but its not as satisfying

i usually average 26kph, although over an 8k journey i have averaged
36k, which did have a hill init aswell, nothing major but still a drop
down to 20 to go up it

plus ive only had my bike 6 weeks, am aiming for 30kph before i go to
uni and hopefully a bit quicker when i leave 3 years later, well thats
the plan 🙂

dyu mind me asking what speed you ride at? miles or km is fine 🙂

Nowadays, not so fast, but about 55 years ago I was cycling home from
work one evening and a motorist started to tail me, after a little while it
was begining to iritate me and I was just about to stop and say something
when he drew anlongside and shorted at me that I was travelling at 30
mph, I didn't know what to say as a response.

Have you noticed that journeys home are always faster than the journey out?

On another occassion I was going on holiday YHAing and I was going
from Ealing to Stow-on-the-Wold, I left home at 2.00 oclock intending
to get there at about 7.00 oclock when I would have prepared my evening
meal then sat for a while and then retired. When I arrived at the hostel
the doors were closed and there was a queue waiting to entre, the
hostels normally opened at 5.00 oclock so I was a bit puzzled. I asked
one of the people why the hostel was not open and I was told that it was
4.50pm when I checked the milage and it was 84 miles, which means I
had travelled 84 miles in 2 hours 50 minutes, which was an average of
(if my arithmetic is up to date) 29.5 mph. Bearing in mind that the bike
was loaded for a fortnights holiday, self catering and clothing for that
time, primus stove, paraffin, meths, water container, milk and etc, that
wasn't a bad average, especially as the trip was across the Cotswolds.

I would doubt that with the restrictions on traffic today whether if I was
the
same age and fitness I would be able to make that time.

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cheers to everyone who stood up for my slowness anyway

I was being a bit facecious, don't take it to heart!(:-)

Alan

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"dailuggs" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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done it, at last, have had to put it off for a month because of
weather. actual distance was 106.86, in 5 hours and 5 secs, took it
fairly easy cos all the big hills at the end, but aim was 20kph so
felling pleased with myself

What is that in english?

He wrote it in English.

You may not be aware that this country still measures distance in miles!

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And why so slow?

Don't be rude. You have yet to get the hang of being polite on usenet yet.
Please do so.

It was not rude, you must have a very short fuse!

Alan

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Ambrose

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What is that in english?

You mean in English what?
RP, Liverpudlian, Mancunian, Cockney?
Or did you want Imperial measurements? (As used by those older than me who
can't grasp something as simple as working in units of ten, clue: fingers
and thumbs).

Well as I've said in another post, in England distances are measured in
miles.

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And why so slow?

So I'll expect to see you hanging on Lances wheel again this year wearing
your strip for The Wait At Top club.

Who is Lance?

Alan
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Pete

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done it, at last, have had to put it off for a month because of weather.
actual distance was 106.86, in 5 hours and 5 secs, took it fairly easy
cos all the big hills at the end, but aim was 20kph so felling pleased
with myself

What is that in english?

106.86km in 5 hours 5secs.

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And why so slow?

5 h is fairly standard for all the Audax 100's I have done, most of
the field come in at about that time. Well done ;-)

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"Ambrose Nankivell" <[email hidden]> wrote
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He wrote it in English.

You may not be aware that this country still measures distance in
miles!

And plenty of English speaking countries don't.

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And why so slow?

Don't be rude. You have yet to get the hang of being polite on
usenet yet. Please do so.

It was not rude, you must have a very short fuse!

You don't know how you come across. I'm suggesting you try and imagine it,
because you do have to behave differently on usenet to keep it like a
conversation.

A

On 14/6/04 10:02 pm, in article [email hidden], "Alan

Holmes said:

Well as I've said in another post, in England distances are measured in
miles.

And in kilometers as well. Furlongs, chains, poles and perches if you really
want.

In fact I prefer kilometers as they make me feel like I'm going faster than
I probably am when I look at the psycho computer...

...d

Alan Holmes said:

I
had travelled 84 miles in 2 hours 50 minutes, which was an average of
(if my arithmetic is up to date) 29.5 mph. Bearing in mind that the bike
was loaded for a fortnights holiday, self catering and clothing for that
time, primus stove, paraffin, meths, water container, milk and etc, that
wasn't a bad average, especially as the trip was across the Cotswolds.

Oh, I remember you. You popped in here a few years ago with your
ridiculous exploits, impervious to reason, and insisted that you really
had done this journey at that impossible speed.

You didn't. There neve has been, and probably never will be, a human
capable of that feat. It's not close enough to reality to be remotely
plausible.

Being generous, I suppose it is possible that you simply misremembered
some aspect (either the distance or the time, or the mode of
transport!). Either that, or you just made the whole thing up. Your
call. In any case, it didn't happen.

James