As you know, the Knighthood of Sufferlandria has for a long time been the highest acclamation possible and we would like to keep our Knights motivated and the castle growing.
With that said, we have made some updates to the training plan section to help you on your way to Knighthood with a list of potential quests. These predesigned quests will ensure that a non-approved video isn’t accidentally included in a quest and we will keep these updated as our library expands. https://wahoosystm.com/CyclingEventPrepOnlineKnighthoodChallenge
Hey Sir @Rupert.H I appreciate your efforts to welcome more CoS to the realm. So, thanks first for that!!
A couple things though, I noticed the laser goats have zapped the Knighthood Challenge card from the home page. That really REALLY ought to stay there permanently as there is little chance of folks accidentally coming across the challenge on their own, be it by surfing the support site or the forums.
As for the canned challenges, I quite like the idea but I also have some suggestions I hope you can consider:
There is no “easy” route. Whatever route is chosen is gonna be hard as SUF with easier and harder being relative to the quester’s fitness, ride intensity adjustments, strength/weakness, preparedness, fuelling etc etc. So for me, an easy fix to that would be to put quotes around “easiest” and “hardest” with a wee note of explanation if that route is chosen. The note could say that by “easiest” we mean lowest average IF if all rides were done at 100% intensity, which, of course, is impossible. A similar thing could be done for “hardest”. I see you’ve got notes in there already so a couple edits could help with that.
I do want to say that I LOVE that you’ve added some interesting combo’s like Celebrating Les Femmes and Agonian Delicacies and I particularly love the wording in #4 in the plan builder :
I will say that the Celebrating Les Femmes bit might intrigue me enough to make a second effort at some point, though the bucket list is fairly full at the moment.
#ditto. Now if only there was a suitable hill that didn’t require a half day’s drive… #thisprairielife. Eg, I’m about to head out for about a 90km ride and there’s gonna be less than 250 metres of gain
I’m noodling between this one - which would be very Alpe d’ Huez-y - or a local hill that would be like the 40-50x thing. Greylock would be a grind, but the other one might make me cry.
I remember that one. Not that I’ve ridden it. Grew up in the foothills of the Catskills. Look up the Women’s Grand Prix of Woodstock. There are some interesting climbs in it.
