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with a bit for AUK to invest in is long term beer fund
They need to keep a bit of it in the bank for various reasons but quite what they are going to do with the bulk of the rest of it I'm not sure.
I know they're properly investing in a new website, one that doesn't look like a Geocities site from the late 90s. Something that gives more visual idea of the routes and calendar/perm starting locations would be nice[1], also something that is designed with GPX files in mind.
- Currently it puts a pin on a google map based on the postcode of the organiser's address (which can be hundreds of miles away from the actual starts, especially for Perms).
- Currently it puts a pin on a google map based on the postcode of the organiser's address (which can be hundreds of miles away from the actual starts, especially for Perms).
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Can you ECE a perm and if so, for only 50km extra?
http://forum.audax.uk/index.php?topic=273.0
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It is a ride that a rider can do from anywhere to and / or from an AUK calendar event in order to extend the total distance for validation. The ride may not be used to extend a permanent event, please use the DIY option for this purpose
My guess is that you'd enter a DIY ride and give them the entire route (including the AWE perm), so you'll have to pay twice (once as a courtesy to the AWE organiser for their route and again for the DIY).
- What is an ECE?
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Yeah, but doing a 1000 means getting to start of 1000 then starting and finishing a 1000.
That's quite different to getting to start of 400, completing the 400, getting to other 400 start and finishing second 400, getting home then getting to start of 100 or 200 and doing that.
I know - just wondered if you'd fall for it!
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Well it's still in my diary so I haven't written it off completely but I was being a bit sensible (he says after entering back to back hilly 400s after having done a single 200). Will there be any EOL chances? It's possible I fail to get in to the second 400 so I could end up doing this anyway.
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So anyone else riding the Brevet Cymru 400 followed by Porkers 400? I have a terrible feeling I may have bitten off more than I can chew but there's one way to find out...
Not sure yet if I'll drive over or train then ride between them and train back to London from Poole. Also not sure if there's a train between Chepstow and Poole if I'm too caned to actually ride it.
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Good luck. People do do it so I'm sure it can be done. And if it can be done, I expect you'll manage!
I think people do sometimes get the train between, but no idea of details. If it was me, I wouldn't drive it. Still have bad memories of driving back from Chepstow after Bryan Chapman in 2011 when I got the full on dozies on the M4.
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I can do anything, if I want to, but the question of how much I want to will no doubt be asked a few times during the weekend. It's the lack of long rides that I'm a bit worried about.
I won't push it. I tend to jump in the car quick while adrenalin still up, get as much done as I can then pull over and sleep when I need to. One of the 400s I did out west I wasn't feeling like making it to the next services without a challenge so I just exited and parked off one of the exit roads for a powernap and was fine after that.
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Porkers 2pm start, so you'd want to be in Poole at 1pm latest I guess.
From Chepstow is jokes. 4 changes and 14 hours to get there before 2pm.
Chepstow (00:08)-> Gloucester (9 hour wait for the 09:37) -> Swindon -> Reading -> Basingrad -> Poole (13:50).
Bath Spa is a lot better, one or two changes. 09:44 from Bath Spa changing at Dorchester (cycle from Dorchester West to Dorchester South) and you get in to Poole at 12:31. 30 mile ride from Chepstow to Bath.
09:00 from Bristol Parkway Station (13 miles from Chepstow) to Bristol Temple Meads (09:13). 09:25 from BTM to Dorchester West (11:40). Dorchester South (12:00) to Poole (12:31).
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Cheers. I can understand trains being less time efficient if you're going to unconnected places (thanks for killing all the lines Highways!) but to be less efficient AND cost more is double bullshit.
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Thanks for the inspiration, rode the AWE today. You're an absolute certifiable nutter for doing it fixed!
Lovely lovely lovely route though.
Was definitely ready to head for home by Swanley and to head back down was tough to do. Absolutely shagged by the time I got to the top of Sundridge, and got finished finished off by the Titsey / White Lane combo. I may or may not have walked up the second half of White Lane. The ride that keeps on giving. Loads of Bluebells out and those yellow flowers that make the rapeseed oil all out too.
Thought about calling it quits at times but glad I didn't.
Keep the suggestions coming!https://www.strava.com/activities/1525368745/
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Anyone doing The Snow Roads in June?
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Haha - it does hurt at times!
That last little climb back up into Selsdon looks like a brick wall as you drop down Old Farleigh Road.
The first time I rode, I came close to packing at Langton Green, but its well worth the sweat carrying on.
Well done.
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When you put it like that it sounds a lot, but if you were going to do a 1000 you'd be able to manage it no problem...