50,000,000 metres!

[mrleisure]

Well done CLP , the climb at the start looks like a good one .

[Hz-Lab]

Back in to the regular rides again, did 50k's in the Dark tonight.. fun fun..

[CLP]

Back in to the regular rides again, did 50k's in the Dark tonight.. fun fun..

well done! 50km on a mtb is damn hard work! :P

i'll be out on the track tomorrow night. wonder if the gps will work inside the Superdrome

[Hz-Lab]

Went out to Fox Creek last night to trial out the lights in a singletrack/forest situation. Also scouted out the course for the 24hour. We rode about 15k's in total, finished out 1st 10k's in about the 55 minute mark though, which is good cos the 24 hour runs a 10k lap and the avergae last year was 1 hour. So we were happy we were on pace.

But wow, that place is another world at night. Only being able to see about 5 metres in front of you when hurtling down a steep bit of singletrack at 45kph is something mental.

Also a tad haunting in there as your riding along and you hear all these sticks breaking and leaves russling only a few metres away from you yet you see nothing, then you just sneak a glimpse of a Roo and the Heart Rate settles a little... I reckon we saw about 100 odd Roo last night without exageration. The place is full of them.

[CLP]

I reckon we saw about 100 odd Roo last night without exageration. The place is full of them.

be careful out there ! can do a lot of damage hitting one on a bike!
http://www.adelaidecyclists.com/forum/t ... -hit-a-roo

[Hz-Lab]

yeah we're pretty warey of them. Fortunately the nature of XC riding is that the majority of time you are only doing 10 to 20kph anyway, so a bit safer than hurtling down the freeway..lol. Would still mess you up though.

I hit, or more so grazed, an Emu out there on my downhill bike last year, not front on, it started running as we got near and I sort of bumped shoulders with it. But they are still fricken solid things and it almost sent me off my bike. I was only doing about 25 then too.

[Hz-Lab]

Just clocked up another 35km's, of which more than half was singletrack and in the Dark too. 427m Elevation.. up to Adelaide hills then back down to the coast and then back up a little. Awesome

[CLP]

Just clocked up another 35km's, of which more than half was singletrack and in the Dark too. 427m Elevation.. up to Adelaide hills then back down to the coast and then back up a little. Awesome

Well done!

i've not done too much in the way of riding except for commuting. Though i'm doing more than planned so i'm ahead of my target i should probably get my lazy arse up into the hills at some point

[Duke]

Looking forward to norbs fancy pie charts given the next month has just ticked over.

[CLP]

Looking forward to norbs fancy pie charts given the next month has just ticked over.

+1

Mmmm Pie

[norbs]

I'm am but a mere servant!





And what is even more exciting....



We have a buffer coming into winter.

[Duke]

Awesome norbs, tks mate.

Buffer indeed but lets hope its enough cause if Summer is anything to go by Winter is going to be a doosy for us east coasters...

[norbs]

I think the biggest news out of this month is the fact that Speed has been shown up by his lovely lady!

Kick his ARSE EmJay!

[CLP]

Thanks Norbs!

about a 2500km buffer.. hmm.. i'd have my doubts whether that's enough. Time to get the whip out on those that are behind their target!

[norbs]

Thanks Norbs!

about a 2500km buffer.. hmm.. i'd have my doubts whether that's enough. Time to get the whip out on those that are behind their target!

I am a bees pube in front at the moment!

[wobblysauce]

I just updated my journal so that should be another 50 odd, I am unsure i will hit the target set for me but I will plod along.

It was 10ºc when I did my ride yesterday.. so I will say winter has already set in.

[norbs]

Updating the pie makes the cycling folk jumpy.

[Crowella]

Yep, even when you forget to put me in the pie

[DarrenM]

Everyone likes pie.

I haven't managed to build the buffer I wanted, but if I can keep up with the longer ones on the weekend it'll hopefully be recoverable when it warms up again.

[wobblysauce]

Crowella, I was just re-reading this topic and making my own exl spread sheet and I noticed that.

As i was going to make one of our total targets being it adds to 54,000. So we have 4,000kms spare.

[DarrenM]

EDIT: I'm missing Crowella somehow.

[wobblysauce]

4th page, near the bottom for Crowella


And using Google maps .. my route is actually 11kms and not 10 that I thought it was... as I forgot the Home to loop start and back.

[DarrenM]

4th page, near the bottom for Crowella

Problem was his profile isn't set to public so my program couldn't get his stats. I've changed it to login so he's there now.

vs Bike Journal target

[norbs]

Yep, even when you forget to put me in the pie

Oops. Will redo soon.

[Emjay]

That's awesome, thanks for the pie Norbs

Woohoo, just managed to scrape in over 1000km by the end of March! Considering we only ride a mere 14.2kms each time - that's quite a few rides!

Not looking forward to winter, but at the rate we're going over here in WA - it's probably not going to rain or get cold anyway, another week of low to mid 30 temps coming up...