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Greenbank in reply to @hippy
Yes, one SR.

You were a 400 (or longer) short of doing two SRs.

More than one SR in a season is valid (as far as I know) for a B25000. Indeed you can do everything for the B25000 in a single year (it just has to be a PBP or LEL year).

Steve A almost earned a B25000 with just his rides from 2007 but he didn't do a 1000km ride or an arrow/fleche.

http://www.aukweb.net/results/detail/2007/listride/?Rider=1223

1 x 1500
1 x 1400
2 x 1200 (one was PBP)
11 x 800
4 x 700
12 x 600
8 x 400
14 x 300
45 x 200

Only one ride over 600km was a calendar ride (PBP) the rest were all perms.

So that's 30 rides of 600km or more, 8 x 400, 14 x 300, 45 x 200 of which you can make 17 SRs.

What's frightening about that season (405 points) was he was working full time but he managed to fit in so many long rides around his shifts in the factory.
```
J71284  AU02    1223    PERMANENT 800   15 Oct  8   0   0
J71283  AU06    1223    PERMANENT 200   16 Oct  2   0   0
J71314  SS03    1223    PERMANENT 800   22 Oct  8   0   0
J71414  AU06    1223    PERMANENT 200   24 Oct  2   0   0
J71411  AU02    1223    PERMANENT 800   29 Oct  8   0   0
J71415  AU06    1223    PERMANENT 200   30 Oct  2   0   0
```
He'd start a DIY 800 early on a Monday morning (15th/22nd/29th Oct 2007) and usually finish it before the end of Tuesday. He'd then almost straight away start a 200km DIY late on the Tuesday night and finish it in time to go in to work on a Wednesday morning. He's said elsewhere that he'd come home from work after that first day and go straight to bed, sleep for ~15h and get up to go back to work again.

1000km in two and a bit days on top of a full working week, as solo rides, and then doing it again and again on subsequent weekends. Bonkers.

There are some other gems in the results:-
```
J71109  AU06    1223    PERMANENT 200   18 Aug  2   0   0
J71112  AU06    1223    PERMANENT 200   19 Aug  2   0   0
FC71165 PB1200  1223    PARIS 1200  20 Aug  12  0   11,000
J71108  AU06    1223    PERMANENT 200   25 Aug  2   0   0
J71113  AU03    1223    PERMANENT 600   27 Aug  6   0   0
```
2 x 200km rides to get to Paris, ride PBP and then a 200km ride home, one rest day and then knock out a 600.

My favourite is this bit though:-
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J70941  AU06    1223    PERMANENT 200   23 Jul  2   0   0
N10365  TT24-7  1223    TT24 700      "    "    7   0   0
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He rides a 200km DIY to get to the start of the Mersey Roads 24h TT and then knocks out a 700km+ 24 (actual ride distance was 436.56 miles).

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hippy in reply to @Greenbank

He'd start a DIY 800 early on a Monday morning (15th/22nd/29th Oct 2007) and usually finish it before the end of Tuesday then almost straight away start a 200km DIY late on the Tuesday

come home from work after that first day and go straight to bed, sleep for ~15h

How were his shifts arranged? I couldn't do that in my full-time job, I don't get that much time between 'shifts'.

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Greenbank in reply to @hippy

How were his shifts arranged?

Don't know the details, there's reference to an Arrivee article in 2007 so I'll go back and check my pile of old mags (I was a member from 2006 so I should still have it).

I couldn't do that in my full-time job, I don't get that much time between 'shifts'.

Assuming you work Mon-Fri 9-6 type work. Start an 800km DIY on Friday evening after work. Finish some time on Sunday morning. Sleep. Go to work Monday morning. Finish work Monday evening and ride an overnight 200km, grab a few hours sleep on Tuesday morning before going in to work. Repeat from Friday night...

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