2023 10,000 km+ club

[Retrobyte]

Fiji
Italy,
France
Germany
Switzerland
Austria
(and Tasmania, that's a separate country right?)

I rode the free bikes around the Shangri La resort in Fiji too

I can add China (rented a bike in Beijing in the 1990s, when there were still absolute swarms of bikes on the streets - imagine being in a bunch of 500 bikes, with some going straight ahead, some turning left, and some turning right)
USA (rented a bike and rode around Central Park in New York)
and Tasmania (because I lived there for 12 years)

[jasonc]

Fiji
Italy,
France
Germany
Switzerland
Austria
(and Tasmania, that's a separate country right?)

I rode the free bikes around the Shangri La resort in Fiji too

I can add China (rented a bike in Beijing in the 1990s, when there were still absolute swarms of bikes on the streets - imagine being in a bunch of 500 bikes, with some going straight ahead, some turning left, and some turning right)
USA (rented a bike and rode around Central Park in New York)
and Tasmania (because I lived there for 12 years)

Crap. Forgot Hawaii, which is USA

[robbo mcs]

Edit:
Wouldn't it be cool if strava had a link that showed all the hc climbs you had completed.
Suppose we could start a thread and update and own

Veloviewer does that from your strava data. Actually gives you a table on the home page, showing how many HC climbs, cat 1-4 climbs you have done, and data breakdown for each category. If you want more detail you can sort rides and segments you have done by virtually any criteria you can think of.

Out of interest, shows I have only done 6 HC climbs in Oz, although some I have done multiple times, one of them 15 times

[jasonc]

Veloviewer does that from your strava data.

I used to pay for veloviewer. But after strava changed their api it became useless without strava premium

Springbrook (must have done it 3 or 4 times)
Hotham
Back of falls
Not sure if oreilly's is one
Mt Wellington
Mt Buller

Overseas:
Alpe d'huez
Mortirolo (the hard way)
Stelvio from bormio (twice)
Stelvio from Prato
Gavia from bormio

[singlespeedscott]

My first post in for ever.

I can say that as of today I am 54km in front of the line to make my 10k for the year

[jasonc]

My first post in for ever.

I can say that as of today I am 54km in front of the line to make my 10k for the year

Great work

[warthog1]

My first post in for ever.

I can say that as of today I am 54km in front of the line to make my 10k for the year

Great work

Ditto. Good to see you on here again SSS

[jasonc]

8k with 112k of up

[g-boaf]

I’m through 11,000km with 93,000m+.

Elevation will probably go up massively next month.

[ningnangnong]

Lagging behind everyone else with 6071km, 46,754m of up.

Happy to be where I am though, considering the start to the year was not promising!

[AndrewCowley]

9,025km with 132,769m of elevation.

Back on track for 15k.

[jasonc]

9,025km with 132,769m of elevation.

Back on track for 15k.

you'll get close to 16 at current pace

got my 1000kms for the month. that's 48 in a row

Distance 8,705.7 km
Elev Gain 121,446 m

[Mr Purple]

Just gone through 8000 - 8023km/113,446m.

Almost 2000km on the gravel bike since April - it's definitely slowing my numbers down (speed, elevation, distance) but I'm enjoying it more so I don't care.

Probably have to put a power meter on that one as well - I suspect Strava greatly underestimates the amount of watts to climb on gravel.

[warthog1]

I'm at 8454k and 78445m, a bit behind my ambitious 15k target.
Ditto on the gravel, doing much more than road and it is slower.
Still, once you have been away from cars for a while it is not enjoyable to be back around them.
Got vector3's on both and another shout out to JasonC for the heads up

[jasonc]

got my 1000kms for the month. that's 48 in a row

Distance 8,705.7 km
Elev Gain 121,446 m

[g-boaf]

11,700km with 103,500m+.

I’m also doing a fair bit of physio work at the moment.

[AndrewCowley]

jasonc and g-boaf you guys are amazing. Well done.

[jasonc]

jasonc and g-boaf you guys are amazing. Well done.

Excuse me. You're ahead of me for both distance and elevation

[AndrewCowley]

Excuse me. You're ahead of me for both distance and elevation

Not over 4 years!

[jasonc]

Excuse me. You're ahead of me for both distance and elevation

Not over 4 years!

consistent, but slow

[jasonc]

9k with 126k of up

[trailgumby]

I've just eclipsed my 2022 total (~6,000km) so maybe 10,000 for the year is still within reach.

[jasonc]

I've just eclipsed my 2022 total (~6,000km) so maybe 10,000 for the year is still within reach.

Less than 1k/ month. You can do it!

[warthog1]

As the weather warms you are there TG

[trailgumby]

As the weather warms you are there TG

I've just eclipsed my 2022 total (~6,000km) so maybe 10,000 for the year is still within reach.

Less than 1k/ month. You can do it!

Considering I lost most of mid-May to mid-June to a nasty and persistent post-viral upper respiratory tract infection cough, and then a couple of weeks in July with soft tissue strain to my lower back possibly instigated by the steroid medication taken for the cough softening those soft tissues, I'm feeling optimistic.

I'm going to stay away from air travel to Melbourne for awhile I think, until I can work out a strategy. Last two times I've done that I've ended up with Covid and then this URTI. Maybe not getting the aisle seat, which is my usual preference (I'm just shy of 6'2"). I've managed to avoid getting seriously sick over the last 3 years apart from those two episodes.