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Old 09-14-22, 06:16 AM
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One must have a Certificate to Qualify for a 100 miles.
Where is yours?

Local Club gives Jersey if one can ride a Century Each Month for a year. I have THREE.
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Originally Posted by Barry2
I set the DISPLAY OPTONS (under the thread listing) to show stuff in Thread Start Time order.

As a new Thread comes up, I either subscribe or move on. That Thread just drops to the bottom never to be seen again.
I have a shortcut on the desktop that already has the Display Options set.

Works for me.

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Originally Posted by cxwrench
And end up with another thread that's at least 5 pages long because everyone has to argue about it. Forever.
No we don't.
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Originally Posted by livedarklions
If it's in the same day, it's a century. Walking 24 miles isn't a marathon because a marathon is a running race. A century is a 100 mile bike ride, not a race, who cares if you cut it up in segments? Actually, who cares what you or I or anyone else calls it? I call it a century to give myself a mileage goal for the day, I'm not putting it up on some Galactic scoreboard.
This is exactly what I think. Who cares if there are long breaks in between riding time? If you want to call it a century, then call it a century. It neither breaks my arm nor picks my pocket to say that several different rides throughout the day which add up to 100 miles are a century or not. The way I see it is that riding 100 miles in a day is something to be proud of, whether you call it a century or not.
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Originally Posted by livedarklions
A century is a 100 mile bike ride, not a race....
With Larry, every ride is a race. Even when the other person doesn't even know it.
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Old 09-14-22, 07:58 AM
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Originally Posted by PeteHski
What you did there Larry was 4 distinct, separate rides in the same day. That's not a single "Century" ride regardless of the total mileage. A "Century" ride is a single ride with the specific intention of completing a 100 mile route. It might involve multiple breaks along the way, but it's all part of the same ride and end goal. What you did was a bunch of disconnected rides for different purposes that just happened to total 85 miles. So yes it would have been weird to add anther 15 miles and call it a Century ride!

Nah, that just makes it a complex question of state of mind that basically says you can do pretty much the exact same amount of riding on two different occasions and one will be a century because you decided it was beforehand and the other isn't because you didn't decide that beforehand. And deciding to add the 15 miles to make it 100 is exactly the same thing as deciding to ride 100 miles from the gitgo--riding miles to meet a distance goal, so what's weird about it?

I've been doing a weekly solo century or two-day weekend riding that totals 150+ miles for the past several months. At some point, the magic of the term "century" has worn off.

I think people tend to take labels of solo rides too seriously. Unless there's a specific training program involved, it really doesn't matter how you ride the 100 miles in the given day.
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Originally Posted by wolfchild
That's not a century ride...All you did was three separate shorter rides in a day...A century should be done uninterrupted by anything other than maybe few short stops to eat or drink...I highly doubt that most cyclists have enough stamina and endurance to do a 100 mile ride uninterrupted.

My guess is that I've done as many or more solo centuries compared to any other person on this thread as I've probably averaged about 30 such rides per year for the past 4 years. I've done it uninterrupted several times especially during the COVID shutdown when there was nowhere open to stop. Usually, though, I take a hour or two break for lunch or sightseeing or whatever, Frankly, the difference in stamina and endurance required really isn't that much, I just find the no-breaks ride incredibly tedious, and the break in the middle is usually to do something I will enjoy. It's a way of motivating myself to ride the distance.

Psst--guess what? There's no official "what's a solo century" rule.
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Originally Posted by GamblerGORD53
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Going home after 50 miles for lunch does not qualify either. IMO....
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What if it takes another 50 miles to get home?
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It neither breaks my arm nor picks my pocket to say that several different rides throughout the day which add up to 100 miles are a century or not. The way I see it is that riding 100 miles in a day is something to be proud of, whether you call it a century or not.
I like this line of thinking...I'm going to start telling people that I can bench-press 2,000lbs. (after I do ten reps of 200 lbs.)
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I thought it was 100 nautical miles.

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Originally Posted by BCDrums
When is that Ignore Thread button going to be available?
In fairness, this thread is much preferable to so many I have seen lately. This one is actually answerable, and sort of understandable from a personal curiosity standpoint.
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Originally Posted by kwb377
I like this line of thinking...I'm going to start telling people that I can bench-press 2,000lbs. (after I do ten reps of 200 lbs.)
That analogy doesn't work even as a joke. The distance (100 miles) and the time to complete it (1 day) are the same, so I can't figure out which of those you're equating to a different magnitude of weight. I think this is like people arguing whether you can say you did 10 reps of 200 pounds if you took more than x time between lifts. Actually, it's even worse--it's people arguing that one guy doing the lifts 30 seconds apart is doing 10 reps because he intended to do that while the other guy who is doing the same number of lifts 10 seconds apart isn't doing 10 reps because he intended to just do 5, but then when he finished the 5 decided to keep going up to 10.
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Originally Posted by hazetguy
please define a "day".
a calendar day?
a designated 24 hour period?
what if someone lives near a time zone line, and they can easily pass between, cross, or begin and end in two different time zones? how does that time discrepancy play into the "day" designation?
and what if said person who lives near a time zone line is riding during the time where clocks are changed (daylight savings/standard, forward in spring, backward in fall)? how do those clock changes affect the "day", especially if that time zone lies on an area where one "side" observes the clock change and the other doesn't? there are multiple hours that can be gained or lost in that "day".

Please define your exacting parameters, otherwise your quetion is unanswerable.

Why stop there--define "ride".
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Originally Posted by hazetguy
what about "mile"? nautical? imperial? statute? other? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile

and why just 'guys'? are 'gals' not allowed to "ride" 100 "miles"?


THESE ARE THE TOUGH QUESTIONS THAT BEG TO BE ANSWERED!

If you ride a century in the forest and knock yourself out instantly by hitting a tree, does the crash make a noise?
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It all depends on whether, when you're doing that non riding stuff in-between, you're still on a ride.

I do multi-day brevets, and I consider them a single ride because the clock is ticking. Even if I'm in my overnight hotel sleeping, I'm still on the ride. Because during that whole time, the ride is what life is all about. If I'm eating, it's to fuel the ride. If I'm sleeping, it's because I need sleep to carry on or because supplies are not available at night. But if I decide to DNF at the overnight, and ride home the next day, that was two rides. It's a state of mind.

I once did a 1000k brevet that was such a stupidly fast course that on the 2nd overnight, we had a campfire with hotdogs and marshmallows, then time for 8 hours of sleep. I call that one pretty marginal about being a single ride. The clock was ticking, but there was so much off-bike time it felt like multiple rides.
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Originally Posted by _ForceD_
I thought it was 100 nautical miles.

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A nautical mile is one minute of latitude. 1/60th of 1/90th of the distance from equator to pole. This is a reason why naval people still use it and haven't fully adopted kilometers. It allows some clever arithmetic and trig tricks, and a kilometer has no relation to a degree. But in fact there is also a metric degree, or gradian, 1/100 of a right angle. A kilometer is 1/10,000 of the distance from equator to pole so a kilometer is one centigrad. It does not have the same arithmetic and trig tricks, but it has others... like +100 is on your right, +200 behind you, etc, and it's easier to use in a digital calculator.

Metric has now been all redefined to various atomic properties, so it's not dependent on the Earth, but that doesn't defeat the usefulness of the way it was scaled to begin with.

Both of these are linked to time by the Earth making a rotation in a day, but not directly enough. 15 seconds of longitude go by in a second of time, because there are 360 degrees in 24 hours. The second of time has been 1/(24x60x60) since it was defined during the Enlightenment. It's pretty useful and satisfying size being equivalent to about a heartbeat, or a beat, or a phrase. It did not get a satisfactory metric replacement during the Revolution though there were some stabs at it.
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For Larry:
Feel free to use the round-up rule. If you're over halfway, you can round up.
A 25 mile ride is halfway to a 50-mile ride, so round up.
Once there, a 50 mile ride is halfway to 100 miles, so round up.
There ya go! 25 miles = a century!
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Originally Posted by livedarklions
Why stop there--define "ride".
What do I mean by the word 'mean'? What do I mean by the word 'word'? What do I mean by 'what do I mean'? What do I mean by 'do' and what do I do by 'mean'? And what do I do by do by do and what do I mean by wasting your time like this? Good night.
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Originally Posted by BobsPoprad
You all have good ideas....but I have the real answer.

If you got/bought a t-shirt/jersey for the "event," then it was a century (distance covered of course). If there is a cutoff time, then you need to be in by that time.

If not, it was just a long ride.

Same with marathons.

Done plenty of both.

You're welcome 😁
This is terrible news. I have done a bunch of centuries but only got one t-shirt. Looks like they are all nullified. Thanks a lot!
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Originally Posted by hazetguy
please define a "day".
a calendar day?
a designated 24 hour period?
what if someone lives near a time zone line, and they can easily pass between, cross, or begin and end in two different time zones? how does that time discrepancy play into the "day" designation?
and what if said person who lives near a time zone line is riding during the time where clocks are changed (daylight savings/standard, forward in spring, backward in fall)? how do those clock changes affect the "day", especially if that time zone lies on an area where one "side" observes the clock change and the other doesn't? there are multiple hours that can be gained or lost in that "day".

Please define your exacting parameters, otherwise your quetion is unanswerable.
Do you really exist? How do you know? What evidence other than your sensory perception do you have? Do you exist in parallel universes and how do you know if this one is your actual reality?
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Originally Posted by genejockey
What do I mean by the word 'mean'? What do I mean by the word 'word'? What do I mean by 'what do I mean'? What do I mean by 'do' and what do I do by 'mean'? And what do I do by do by do and what do I mean by wasting your time like this? Good night.
I depends on what your definition of ‘is’, is.
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Originally Posted by downtube42
It all depends on whether, when you're doing that non riding stuff in-between, you're still on a ride.

I do multi-day brevets, and I consider them a single ride because the clock is ticking. Even if I'm in my overnight hotel sleeping, I'm still on the ride. Because during that whole time, the ride is what life is all about. If I'm eating, it's to fuel the ride. If I'm sleeping, it's because I need sleep to carry on or because supplies are not available at night. But if I decide to DNF at the overnight, and ride home the next day, that was two rides. It's a state of mind.

I once did a 1000k brevet that was such a stupidly fast course that on the 2nd overnight, we had a campfire with hotdogs and marshmallows, then time for 8 hours of sleep. I call that one pretty marginal about being a single ride. The clock was ticking, but there was so much off-bike time it felt like multiple rides.
If your significant other joins you for an overnight hotel stay and things get romantic, is it for the ride or is the brevet off at that point and you have to start over?
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It really comes down to the spirit of riding a century. Someone who rides an unsupported 50 mile loop that starts and ends at home, eats lunch and goes out and rides it again should constitute a century. Eating at home is no different than any place else, especially unsupported and not an organized event.

Riding the 50 mile loop early in the morning, coming home, getting a massage, hooking up an IV, and taking a couple hour nap might be pushing it.

Likewise, finding a 25 mile primarily downhill and riding it 4 times in a day, being shuttled up to the top, just to get 100 miles is not really in the spirit of riding a century. Though technically being in the saddle for 100 miles with the occasional movement of the cranks.

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