Just like last year, this thread is an information sharing thread for individuals taking the CAM (century a month) Challenge in 2008.

Note that because we are getting a late start on 2008 and some who might otherwise want to take the challenge may miss January, it is OK for such people to to double up centuries in one month of their choosing (meaning 12 centuries in 11 months) in order to catch up. Purists may object, but in the immortal words of Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea - "Whatever."

CENTURY FAQ:




What Counts?

• Any formally organized/sponsored ride that is billed as a century, even if the ride organizers were too lame to get the total mileage up to 100. If you feel you need to do parking lot repeats to make up the deficit then have at it, but don't feel obligated
• Any informal or solo ride that totals 100 miles
• This is self reported. I am not going to second guess whether you completed a century or whether your Garmin was working properly that day There is no money at stake here.

PLEASE, DO NOT REPLY TO POSTS OR POST ANYTHING OTHER THAN YOUR DATA.

Please post the data for your century/month as follows:

Date of Ride:
Type of Ride: (group ride or solo ride)
Name of organized ride or route:
Actual Mileage:
Ride Time:
Total Time:
Avg. Speed:
Altitude Climbed: (if available, either by route map, or cycling computer)
Weather conditions:
Synopsis of Ride: (please be respectful as you never know who might read this)

Remember, even if you don't make all twelve, please still post your data for as many months as you can - all centuries are an accomplishment! So, although this is a challenge, it is in the spirit of camaraderie! Double centuries count, but only as a single century. Metric centuries will be scorned without mercy.

Below is the official list that is based on the 2008 CAM Poll thread. If those of you who are planning to go stealth this year, or are on the fence want to join the fun please let me know. If you do not see your name or century months updated, please PM me, and I will update your info. Thank you!

RIDERS WHO ARE TAKING THE CHALLENGE:

badfishgood 1/12
ckeizer77 12/12
cjbruin 1/12
Entropy906 5/12
DaveSANYYZ 3/12
Indolent58 11/12
JimmyNH 1/12
jsigone 1/12
KINGS HOCKEY 12/12
magicant 1/12
merckx89 6/12
merider1 1/12
RideMore 4/12
SanDiegoCyclist 6/12
Scootcore 2/12
scvroadie 0/12
Shnuddy 7/12
Shprung 3/12
Turtle 1 2/12
vtecrparts 0/12
WhiteCarbonDude 12/12
umd 52/52

REMEMBER: YOU HAVE TO FILE A RIDE REPORT IN THIS THREAD TO GET CREDIT

Date of Ride: Jan 12, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: Stagecoach Century
Actual Mileage: 102
Ride Time: 7:01
Total Time: 8:30
Avg. Speed: 14+
Altitude Climbed: 4300
Weather conditions: Cool in morning, excellent throughout the day
Synopsis of Ride: Shadow Tours addressed all the complaints about the route and cue sheet from las year. I suffered through this with asthma but was glad to have gone. Only a few SoCal BFer representing this year.

Date of Ride: Jan 11 2008
Type of Ride: two of us
Name of organized ride or route: N/A pasadena to acton
Actual Mileage:102
Ride Time: 5:52
Total Time: Little over 6 hours
Avg. Speed: 17.3
Altitude Climbed: i would guess something like 4000ish feet
Weather conditions: Beautiful day. Clear, sunny, warmed up nicely


What if we have two in one month?

Date of Ride: Jan 12, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: Stagecoach Century
Actual Mileage: 100.22
Ride Time: 7:05:01
Total Time: 8:30
Avg. Speed: 14.1
Altitude Climbed: 4432
Weather conditions: Acceptably cool; no shivering; no overheating issues
Synopsis of Ride: Much better than my last year's SC ride. Took a while to get back to it being the first ride in 4 weeks. Worse part turns out to be 2 large bruises on the butt that took 2 days to recover.

If you have 2+ in one month, I say you post them all. The Czar will figure out when to apply his 2in1 deal.

Post them all, but the 2in1 deal applies only to those who miss January.

Date of Ride:January 12, 2008
Type of Ride: Group
Name of organized ride or route: Stagecoach Centruy
Actual Mileage:102
Ride Time: 6:50
Total Time: 8:30
Avg. Speed: 14.9
Altitude Climbed: 4300 (actually, my Garmin said 4975, but I'll go with the group)
Weather conditions: Chilly in the morning (late start though so it wasn't too bad) and the evening, gorgeous in between.
Synopsis of Ride: I had a great time, my husband not so much. Full report posted on the thread.

Date of Ride: Jan, 12
Type of Ride: OCW Saturday Century
Actual Mileage: 93
Ride Time: 5:30
Total Time: 6:15
Avg. Speed: 16.9
Altitude Climbed: 2779
Weather conditions: Cold, Fog AM, Avg. temp 62 low of 45
Synopsis of Ride: Started in Anaheim at my home rode to the start 16 miles away in Irvine. The route heads north through Orange and Anaheim Hills then out through Corona to Tom's Farms. It's an out and back route so on the return I just headed home to Anaheim.

Dan (indolent58)

We need some clarification of what counts as a century. Do the rides have to be a minimum of 100 miles. If an organization puts on a ride and calls it a century, and the mileage is less than a hundred do we count it?

I really don't care, but I'm interested. Last year on Solvang, some friends and I did a twist to the ride that gave us an additional 1500 feet of climbing and we ended up with 96.6 miles on the route. I didn't count the ride.

See the addition to the OP above.

Thanks for clarifying, I agree with 100%

Date of Ride:Jan 12th 2008
Type of Ride: Group, Organized
Name of organized ride or route:Stagecoach Century
Actual Mileage:101.43
Ride Time:5:42
Total Time:6:37
Avg. Speed:15.36
Altitude Climbed: 4184 (Garmin 305)
Weather conditionsleasantly cool to Perfectly Warm
Synopsis of Ride: A lot of fun

I have a quick question. I have 4 centuries scheduled in May, but none in June. is that ok?

Corey Keizer
Share the Road
https://15rides.blogspot.com

Ahem...Century A Month?

Haha. Well, the Ojai Century falls on May 31st this year! What's a kid to do?

Date of Ride: Jan 12, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: PCH Randos 200K
Actual Mileage:125.64 (Route Slip 127)
Ride Time: 8:02
Total Time: 8:50
Avg. Speed: 15.4
Altitude Climbed: 2587 per Blackburn Delphi (1800 per website)
Weather conditions: Beautiful day. Cool start, clear, sunny, warmed up nicely, a little breezy.
Synopsis of Ride:Was a nice ride along the coast. Sort of Grand Tour and Cool Breeze routes combined. All controls were manned not the usual Brevet style riding

Date of Ride: Jan 19, 2008
Type of Ride: Solo
Name of organized ride or route: n/a
Actual Mileage:101
Ride Time: 6
Total Time: 7
Avg. Speed: 16 something
Altitude Climbed: 2,900
Weather conditions: My first century. Yesterday was a beautiful day. No wind in the morning, very little wind in the afternoon. The route was along the beach path 2/5s of the way, navigation of the beach path wasn't fun in the afternoon. The route was basically: Hermosa to Brentwood, Brentwood to PV, PV to Brentwood, Brentwood to Hermosa. I was fine being solo the first 2/3s of the ride, the last 1/3 wasn't fun.

Date of Ride: Jan 19, 2008
Type of Ride: solo
Name of organized ride or route: home to Baldy Village and back
Actual Mileage:101
Ride Time:7:44
Total Time:10:01
Avg. Speed:13
Altitude Climbed: 7502 per Garmin
Weather conditions: 62.6 avg. winds calm
Synopsis of Ride: My first century, never been to the village so I thought that'd be fun. I was hurting on the way up, mainly cause I ran out of fluids and gels about half way up. It took a LONG time to finally get to the restaurant. Had 3 cups of coffee, 3 glasses of water, a bacon burger, potato skins, and a slice of apple pie al la mode. Took GRR to GMR back and was feeling much better after food and rest. Started getting dark on me for the last 15 miles or so and of course I didn't bring my light. Got home fine and super tired.

Date of Ride: Jan 19, 2008
Type of Ride: Mixed group/solo
Name of organized ride or route: Echelon Saturday Ride
Actual Mileage: 102.78 (63.47 group/39.31 solo)
Ride Time: 5:38:41 (3:18:48 group/2:20:27 solo)
Total Time: 9:21:08
Avg. Speed: 18.2 (19.16 group/16.79 solo)
Altitude Climbed: 5,980 (Edge 305, reported by MotionBased)
Weather conditions: Light breeze through the morning, Windy in the late afternoon/evening
Synopsis of Ride: The usual saturday morning club 'A' ride, with an small group extending out to Refugio/'Circle Bar B'. I was pushing the pace up a little higher than usual in the group and almost bridged a huge gap on the run up to the Glen Annie sprint after Bill took off with another guy (that I didn't know). I held off the group and came in third behind them. After Refugio, we cruised back to and through Goleta and [Bill, Sean, and I] hung out at Peet's for nearly 2 hours with Carlos. I continuied on my way at an easy crusing pace to the end of Padaro (just outside of Carpinteria), and looped back towards Summerland, stopping to pick up dinner for me and Kim at Cafe Luna. Stopped at her office for a while and had dinner with her, then continued on to FasTrak to investigate TT frame options. Finally arrived at home at dusk, which is good since I didn't have any lights...

Date of Ride: Jan, 26
Type of Ride: SFVBC Saturday extended renovate
Actual Mileage: 97.2
Total Time: 7:30
Avg. Speed: 16.0
Altitude Climbed: ~5000
Weather conditions: 44 - 58, dry day after after 5 days of non-stop rain; road are wet and mudi in parts.
Synopsis of Ride: From home (encino) to CSun; SFVBC had no real route. We started the Wed. ride to west lake. Then, some left some added to create a new group. To hidden valley, Simi, back via Box Canyon, Valley circle, and back to Encino.

Date of Ride: 2/1/2008
Type of Ride: solo
Name of organized ride or route: My house (Rancho Penasquitos) to San Onofre
Actual Mileage:100.4
Ride Time: 10:55
Total Time:8:02
Avg. Speed:12.5
Altitude Climbed: maybe 1000ft. Flat ride!
Weather conditions: cloudy, cool. Tailwind going north, headwind going south. Very unusual
Synopsis of Ride: This was my first century in 16 years. (That tells you something about my age). First fifty miles seemed rather easy; that might have been related to the tailwind. Took everything I had to finish. Got to the end after sunset. First long ride on my brand new Specialized Roubaix

Date of Ride: 2/2/08
Type of Ride: group ride
Name of organized ride or route: BF TDSB
Actual Mileage: 113.3
Ride Time: 7:35
Total Time: 6:32
Avg. Speed: Overall 14.9, Moving 17.4
Altitude Climbed: 7026
Weather conditions: Cold to cool with a headwind
Synopsis of Ride: First century this year. For more see TDSB Ride report.

Date of Ride: Feb 02
Type of Ride: Solo/Group
Name of organized ride: OCW Lake Mathews Century(modified from home)
Actual Mileage: 105
Ride Time: 06:49
Total Time: 07:56
Avg. Speed: 15.4
Altitude Climbed: 4023
Weather conditions: Cold. Cloudy Wind SE 5-10mph Avg. temp 55 low 46 high 66
Synopsis of Ride: Since this ride passes by my home I start there and ride to the start in Irvine a 17 mile warm up. There was a nice size group for this ride, about 25 riders. Chuck Bramwell is the ride leader and there are always plenty of seasoned Triple Crown riders in the group. I wasn't having a good day as this was my first ride in three weeks due to Pneumonia. So I was dropped by the fast group and rode most of the day solo. This ride goes through Anaheim Hills, Corona, and Riverside to Lake Mathews. It's a dog leg out and back course with plenty of urban traffic but still a nice course.

Date of Ride: 2/2/08
Type of Ride: group ride
Name of organized ride or route: BF TDSB
Actual Mileage: 114.8(including distance to start and the ride home)
Ride Time: 7:49
Total Time: 9:00
Avg. Speed: 14.7
Altitude Climbed: 6975
Weather conditions: Cold to cool with a headwind
Synopsis of Ride: First century this year. For more see TDSB Ride report.

I wasn't going to do this because January was already blown. But with Indolent's 2 for 1 deal, I'm good to go!



Date of Ride: Ground Hog's Day, 2008
Type of Ride: Group ride
Name of organized ride or route: BF Tour a Santa Barbara (sorry, tour "de" Santa Barbara just isn't accurate)
Actual Mileage: 106
Ride Time: 7:16
Total Time: 8:30
Avg. Speed: 14.7
Altitude Climbed: 6925
Weather conditions: Cold to cool with a headwind
Synopsis of Ride: First century this year. For more see TDSB Ride report

Good work!

Date of Ride: February 9th, 2008
Type of Ride: organized Century plus warm up and cool down
Name of organized ride or route: Tour de Palm Springs
Actual Mileage: 108 not counting 10 mile cool down
Ride Time: 5:13 Century in 4:40
Total Time: 5:30 century in 4:55
Avg. Speed: 21.76
Altitude Climbed: 3000 or something
Weather conditions: Started nice, warmed up to a little bit uncomfortable
Synopsis of Ride: Amazing Century, look for ride report to follow