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Mar 2021
10:38am, 8 Mar 2021
177 posts
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Fopp
250 is a long old ride!
230 miles is my longest ride outside, back from the mother-in-law's house last year. No races on so I needed to do something daft. I can't imagined going much further as I have no desire to ride in the dark.
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Mar 2021
10:46am, 8 Mar 2021
73,481 posts
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Gobi
Funny I have done a lot of 60 -90 mile rides
I did most of the marmotte and stopped at 97.7 miles :¬0
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Mar 2021
10:48am, 8 Mar 2021
753 posts
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Big_G
I don't generally mind laps too much. In running, I've done a couple of track marathons, and other lapped courses for 6hr events etc. Locally, there is a bike track that is 1-mile long and I quite like it for sessions, or even an easy ride. I find, certainly with running, that if I have a rough target in mind for each lap I like to try and stick to it which I find motivating. Don't get me wrong, I much prefer a scenic single-lapper, but I don't mind lapped events.
Uber Pretzel is my longest ride, inside or out, at 89-miles (which included the downhill of the AdZ at the end, where I wasn't actually on the bike.....!).
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Mar 2021
10:50am, 8 Mar 2021
73,482 posts
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Gobi
Big_G - 49 laps in a tunnel under a river in Germany - 50 laps a long a sea front in Ireland for a 100km that had a cone at one end :¬0 (to name 2)
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Mar 2021
10:56am, 8 Mar 2021
23,036 posts
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TROSaracen
Fopp - I have a thing for doing a 12 hour time trial each year. Just the one mind....
PB is 264 miles.
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Mar 2021
11:01am, 8 Mar 2021
73,483 posts
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Gobi
a thing....
That is a word for it (says the man who did 3 x 24hr solo mtb races and a 24hr team bike event in 5 months)
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Mar 2021
11:03am, 8 Mar 2021
754 posts
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Big_G
Gobi, sounds good. I did a 10k in Netherlands a few years ago, which was 2 laps. It was funny as I was chatting to the RD at the start, and he warned me of "the hill", which we'd have to do twice. Needless to say, it may have been a hill for Dutch standards, but really it should have been described as "a slope" or in the UK it probably wouldn't have been noted as anything! That was a great race though - I think I paid about €5, it was organised by a club, it was chip timed, it started and ended on an athletics track, and as it was around Xmas there was as much Oliebollen (Dutch, spherical doughnuts) and coffee as I could stomach :D Ahhh, I miss travelling a lot!
The most laps I've done is in a track marathon - 105 laps. I felt great afterwards though as it's so easy on the legs, so I did another marathon the day after somewhere on the Thames path 
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Mar 2021
11:20am, 8 Mar 2021
73,484 posts
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Gobi
Big_G - have done number of track races, 6hrs was a LONG day
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Mar 2021
11:27am, 8 Mar 2021
9,589 posts
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jda
I did a controlled 49:xx last time Gobi so will be giving it a bit more oomph this time, would like to be close to 45ish but that sounds hard and the only people I know who've done that are serious climbers!
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Mar 2021
11:37am, 8 Mar 2021
73,486 posts
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Gobi
45 is about 4.4 WKG I think - so it is a very good effort for sure
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