Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
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Any of you knockers giving it a go?
I do over that every month just commuting to work and back. Doesn't seem too much of a challenge more a hassle with recording it all. Pff
A cunning ploy to get you to wear out all those mega expensive Super Record cassette's and 11 speed chains.
And as this is a sports cycling based challenge.....you should really be aiming for sore legs.
.....I haven't won any races, ever, but I keep trying.
Find Strava multi-day distance-based challenges a bit too much hassle myself. On the one hand you want to have decent segment results and power stats on each ride, on the other inevitably a lot of the recorded rides have to be commutes on busy London roads where full-tilt riding is impossible due to traffic levels. And at the end of them I certainly don't really feel like I've ridden a Grand Tour (as the tagline for this Campagnolo challenge goes), unless a Grand Tour produces several weeks of stressful adrenaline from dodging careless drivers. (Maybe in Johnny Hoogerland's world)
Kind of easy to fit it, 3 x 40k a in the week post work, and a 115k on a weekend.
If only I could manage the 3 in the week at the moment!
if you do any riding 'properly' you shouldn't get sore legs.
How many races have you won?
1000km in a month shouldn't give you sore legs, it's not particularly brutal.
Hence the, "If you do it properly" comment.... meaning, do it in a way that is a challenge to you; try 1000k in one day?
Errr so what do we get out of this?
Sore legs
If you do it properly....