Audax rides

Willy Warmer conflicts with CTT Champs Night so I thought I'd get my 200 out of the way early with this.

Damnit @hippy - I was hoping you were going to be on the Willy Warmer. I still have a huge piece of glass to give you.

Good work to all those out yesterday. Not an easy day at all. I did a route check for my proposed event in August (a 200 running out of Richmond to Chichester through the Surrey hills and South Downs) and it was certainly a testing day, lots of water from above, lots from below (including a river that had burst it's banks). Front light playing silly buggers due to the rain, eventually giving up (before coming back to life) and me shelling out for a spare in cranleigh.

January/February 200s really do have the potential to be about the hardest rides of any distance that you do all year.

Thanks for grabbing that. Any other events you're likely to be doing? You at the Willesden dinner?

@hippy hope you had loads of apple crumble and beer afterwards. Need to keep that weight up so we can keep riding together.

Haha yep plenty.

Although I'm 3kg down on my Xmas peak. Should be under 90 again by end of Jan and if I can get to my normal operating weight by Mar, I'll be lower than ever in June. cracks another tinny

Well done everyone. I was planning a short ride yesterday with a friend but DNS'd that and had a long lunch with a bottle of wine instead. But got an email to say that I'm on the rrty list. Fame at last. I'll book on the Willy Warmer though. Last year rode it fixed and will probably do it fixed again.

I just had a thought... imagine catching up to all these 10x RRtY peeps by doing 2x200s every weekend (or other days you have free) for 12 months.

Too much admin.

Just imagine how many RRTYs Steve A would have if he went to the faff of registering each of his HAMR rides as a DIY by GPS Audax.

By my reckoning he'd have 25 concurrent RRTYs on the go (starting in August 2015). December was the most attritional month as he had 6 rides < 200km.

If you just pick one Perm and ride it 8x a month then you'll catch up quick.

I think he's already on 10x RRtY isn't he?

Yes. But just one niggle which could turn you into badlands when you ride and shouldn't as all the bases are loaded.

8x a month would mean no way of avoiding rainy days and would also mean dropping loads of other things. I was thinking that realistically I could manage 2 x 200km a month. Three at a push but don't think I could keep that up for 12 months.

Increased risk, increased reward.

If I was retired.. 10-15 a month, if you just wanted to get up the list quick?

Even now I could probably do 200ks in the dark after work and survive. I'm not sure having a (10x) next to my name is enough motivator though. Still mad enough that people would remember it.

If I was only doing audax and not racing it would be much easier.

Probably, my next claim to fame.

http://www.aukweb.net/results/fame/b5000/

Nice rides unlikely to finish in time limit one: 7.-10.9

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Nice rides unlikely to finish in time limit two: 25.-29.7.

Sounds like a nice challenge. 24hr team arrow could be interesting.

Nice rides unlikely to finish in time limit one: 7.-10.9

Sophie Matter's 1000 du Sud?

Ever since I saw this.

Doing a 200 after work is what Steve Abraham used to do when he set his audax points record. And you know what that has led to...!

Ever since I saw this.

I saw that a lot on PBP 2011, pretty much at some point between every set of controls. She was on a similar (possibly the same) bike similarly adorned and most of the time wearing a big billowy skirt.

Looking at the results (http://pbpresults.bikeaholics.org/pbp2011/frame/5653 and http://pbpresults.bikeaholics.org/pbp2011/frame/6500) she finished faster than me by 1 minute (albeit with a later start time) but we rarely got to controls more than an hour apart. I remember chatting to her in the queue to get the cards stamped at some control, and from the timings it looks like that was at Carhaix on the way out.

You were on fixed.

I've already ridden a recumbent around a velodrome so all I need to do now is ride 220mi a day for an entire year. I think we can both agree I've done the hard part...