{"id":644,"date":"2010-09-04T11:10:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T11:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/?p=644"},"modified":"2017-01-12T04:28:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T04:28:34","slug":"august150-round-up-great-cycling-you-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/august150-round-up-great-cycling-you-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"<b>#August150 Round Up. Great Cycling You Lot.<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>August 150 Is Done!<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m amazed how quickly August passed by.\u00a0 The holidays certainly helped: there&#8217;s something about being at home or away with the kids that makes time fly.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a fun month though.\u00a0 Anyway, you&#8217;re not reading for that, you want the round-up, right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, here we go:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>41<\/strong> &#8211; the number of people on the sheet<\/li>\n<li><strong>35<\/strong> &#8211; the number who posted some mileage &#8211; <strong><em>very<\/em><\/strong> impressive!<\/li>\n<li><strong>23<\/strong> &#8211; the number who rode more than 150 miles! <strong><em>Wow<\/em><\/strong> \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Special mentions go to the following people:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>John Berry<\/strong>, for being <strong>first to complete<\/strong> AND for <strong>topping 1,000 miles<\/strong> in the month.\u00a0 That&#8217;s an average of over 33 miles every day.\u00a0 Is this a man or a machine?\u00a0 <a title=\"John's Cycling Diary.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johns-cycling-diary.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Follow his blog<\/a>, why don&#8217;t you?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Louise K<\/strong>, for being the <strong>first girly<\/strong> to hit the 150, and for doing it on an adventure riding the Liverpool-Leeds canal.\u00a0 That&#8217;s exactly the type of thing I was thinking way back in the June100 days: enjoying the bike and increasing the miles \ud83d\ude42 Read about her adventures more <a title=\"Lou's excellent blog.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loulouk.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">on her blog<\/a>, too.<\/li>\n<li>The <a title=\"Inspirational Cycling for Charity. I aspire to this sort of stuff.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.letower2tower.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Le Tower To Tower<\/strong> <\/a>riders (<strong>Emma<\/strong>, <strong>Dave<\/strong>, <strong>Anthony<\/strong> and <strong>Chris<\/strong>plus a couple of other guys who aren&#8217;t in the challenge) who finished the month hitting around 100 miles each day &#8211; along with smashing the September target too &#8211; on their ride between the Blackpool and Eiffel towers.\u00a0 Awesome work, you lot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"The August150 spreadsheet.\" href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets0.google.com\/ccc?key=tRkY_GMiOHRtqSwPCXurG9Q&amp;hl=en_GB#gid=0\" target=\"_blank\">Have a look at the full spreadsheet here<\/a>.\u00a0 With an average of over <strong>213 miles per person<\/strong>, I&#8217;m chuffed to be associated with this stuff.<\/p>\n<h2>It&#8217;s September, And That Means The Sep100 !<\/h2>\n<p>I asked for some quick feedback on <a title=\"My Twitter page, just request if you wanna follow me.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/phillconnell\" target=\"_blank\">twitter<\/a>, and enough people responded positively.\u00a0 So, I set up the <a title=\"September 100 Sheet Is Go!\" href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/ccc?key=0ApTiHlxlMDy3dGF4V2ZTWEZkZ3V5aXNVMDVKaWw4T1E&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;pli=1#gid=0\" target=\"_blank\">Sep100 spreadsheet<\/a> to keep the challenge rolling \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s Changed?<\/h3>\n<p>Thanks to input from <a title=\"Lisa's ranty blog. Worth a read!\" href=\"http:\/\/windymillar.posterous.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa<\/a>, <a title=\"Austin Slide, Couch Spud To Steel Guy\" href=\"http:\/\/couchpotatotoironman.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Austin<\/a> and others, I&#8217;ve added a column for stationary miles.\u00a0 Now as far as I can see, the definition &#8220;<strong>stationary<\/strong>&#8221; kinda means they&#8217;re <strong>not miles<\/strong>, but I&#8217;ll leave that argument for another day.\u00a0 So if you&#8217;re turbo training or the weather turns nasty, you can still clock up some activity.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa also suggested a TT league, but due to time and technical issues I&#8217;ve simply added\u00a0&#8220;best 5 mile&#8221; and &#8220;best 10 mile&#8221; columns.\u00a0 Just time your best 5 and 10 mile splits, record them somewhere and stick them into the sheet.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just another excuse to compete (<em>and no doubt something Lisa plans to win<\/em>)!<\/p>\n<p>If you want to <a title=\"Join The Sep 100, it's great!\" href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/ccc?key=0ApTiHlxlMDy3dGF4V2ZTWEZkZ3V5aXNVMDVKaWw4T1E&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;pli=1#gid=0\" target=\"_blank\">join the club<\/a>, just hit the sheet and email me at the address shown there.\u00a0 Simple!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your September Cycling, everyone \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share with your friends:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-644\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/august150-round-up-great-cycling-you-lot\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-644\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/august150-round-up-great-cycling-you-lot\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-644\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/august150-round-up-great-cycling-you-lot\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-644\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/august150-round-up-great-cycling-you-lot\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-skype\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-skype-644\" class=\"share-skype sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/august150-round-up-great-cycling-you-lot\/?share=skype\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Skype\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/august150-round-up-great-cycling-you-lot\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20%3Cb%3E%23August150%20Round%20Up.%20Great%20Cycling%20You%20Lot.%3C%2Fb%3E&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.phillconnell.com%2Fblog%2Faugust150-round-up-great-cycling-you-lot%2F&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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It's a shared challenge with aim of helping us all get fitter, faster, not fatter\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cycling Challenges&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":501,"url":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/june100-update-and-a-decent-ride\/","url_meta":{"origin":644,"position":4},"title":"#June100 Update and a Decent Ride","date":"14 June 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Two weeks in, and I'm amazed. \u00a0Today is the 14th of June, so with 46.666% recurring of the month gone, the 30 members of the June100 have completed 94.7333% of the mileage required. \u00a0Of course it's an individual challenge, but those figures show how awesome some of you guys are....\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cycling Challenges&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAG0286.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":528,"url":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/june100-cycling-completed\/","url_meta":{"origin":644,"position":5},"title":"Yaay! #June100 Completed","date":"29 June 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Two remarkable things happened the other night. 1. 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