I can't believe that I actually clocked 103km today. It was just from general running around that I had to do. There was no specific cycling related purpose to any of it. Has anyone else ever done this?

Maybe your computer's gone haywire and it was really 10.3 or something.

Know the feeling Chris!

It never see`s to amaze me how the miles clock up just potering around seeking shopping , doing errands, returning home to find you have forgotten a purchase and doing the trip you have just completed all over again

That is one way of giving yourself quite a work out.

I recall one day in the summer when i had stopped at a pub for a refreshment and sat outside on a bench to enjoy it .

I duly set off again when what was about 10 miles down the road I realised I had left my sun glasses lying on the bench .
I immediatley spun around and returned , hopeing they would still be there , don`t think i ever cycled so fast in my life, as they were expensive glasses.

So that was an example to giving myself an extra 20 mile journey.

Yes! the glasses were where I had left them (phew)

Willi`c

My computer showed a one day high of 119k after a very long outing with the local cycling club. I was absolutely worn out at the end of the day. My justification for being so worn out is due to the ride being in the early part of the summer of my first year of serious cycling, very hard riding over hills, and my bike was not designed for high distance touring. My last big ride, which took place in middle November, was 97k, and I was hardly tired at all.:thumbup: I would have gone an extra 3k just for the sake of having a century, but the guy I was riding with was not as strong as I was that day.

To do 103 Km is a great feeling. I had thought the benchmark of a century ride was the American standard of 100 MILES. That is about 60 KM.?
Often really good cyclists scoff of a METRIC CENTURY as a cop out.?! Is the Ameican 100 mile standard some kind of benchmark elsewhere ??? Probably in the rest of the world, good cyclists do not think of 166 KM as some kind of benchmark, only in the U.S.
Of course this is during a hard Saturday ride when everyone's adrenlin is up and the competitive spirit is at its peak. If only the U.S. would grow up and accept the world metric system as superior, this question would be moot. But seriously, 66 miles American per day is a great feeling, as long as you stay awake to tell about it when you get home.
Maybe in metric countries a REALLY challenging day is two metric centuries.? Of course, you even hear of 3 English mile centuries- U.S, nonstop.
Crazy, but be proud if I could do it.- What 480 KM. Some kind of endurance thing ! That is like the distance from Detroit to Toronto. How long would that take. certainly not 24 hours.

Metric= mile conversion; 1.6 Km = 1 mile.

Oh, I've done much longer rides than 103km in the past. However, those were on days when I was actually intending to ride specifically at the time. I just thought it odd that I'd clocked up this distance without even making an effort.

Chris. That is how I took your comment to be meant. My point was, what is the benchmark for riding distance. In the U.S. we will ask, have you done a century yet.? That is 160 KM.
In non-English miles, is a 'rite of passage' two metric centuries or 120 American miles?
But it is a great feeling to look down at your odometer and realize unintentionally to have completed over a metric century.

What impresses me about Chris (forgive me if I am missing something here) is that he is motivated to ride as he does without peer pressure (or perhaps, in spite of it! ) He rides alone.

Pete. I often ride alone. don't mind it. Do suspect you are safer in a bike pack. Wacko motor primates- Chris' term- probably they are less brazen; if there are witness'.
But I always commute alone. Maybe ride 3-5 times a week on average. I'd say 2 times is alone. Alone is often good. can go where you want, stop where you want. Be alone and let your thoughts wonder, mabye resolve some issues. Does not take a group to motivate me to get out, but when with a group- good to share in that cycling community spirit. That is fun times too.

That depends on the size of the group. I believe a small group will provide a few witnesses, but a large group provides other dangers. I've seen them charging through Surfers Paradise at 45km/h. I've also seen pedestrians in Surfers Paradise step onto the road without looking on many occasions (I generally limit myself to 35km/h there, even with the strongest tailwind). Now all it takes is one rider on the front to get caught out (quite easy to do there) and there could be big trouble.

However, one of the main reasons I tend to ride alone is that there aren't too many people around here who ride the sort of terrain that I like riding. I mean, riding from Burleigh to The Spit is OK sometimes, but I'd get pretty bored if I did it all the time.

CZ,

The only time I have ridden with another is when accidentally joining up with them on my commute.

Kind of neat, tho.

Chris.
I've been there done that, don't be surprised, it will happen again and again and again.....

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Pat