Audax rides

Most will already factor in a number of people not starting so don't have one, WCW definitely doesn't have a waiting list.

Committing early.

I don't want to make calls on this kind of thing until I know what TCR are planning.

didn't realise these things sold out

PBP Panic

Brimstone clashes with the Ben Tour ride in Wales which I've already entered. Hmm. I've done the 300 and the 400 already. Hmm.

Do any of these rides have a waiting list?

Very rare for Audaxes to have waiting lists. I think Liam did it for LWL last year but that's the only one I recall ever having seen. However, if you contact the organiser politely and ask at the right time, you might sometimes get a place if there have been a load of cancellations.

Doing it just after the ride had sold out would be a bad time, so I'd leave it a few months. If you lurk on YACF and find someone saying that they have entered but had to drop out, that might help. NB you can't ride in someone else's place, places not transferable without other than by org, but at least you know that one has just been made available.

Not a waiting list, but the org for WCW has emailed entrants saying that if they were a bit premature, they can cancel their entries up until some date. So, in effect some people may get in later.

"Many thanks for entering Windsor Chester Windsor, Audax UK's first ever 600km event. I will send over more details about the event early next year. However I wanted to let you know now about what to do if you decide not to ride.

Entries to Audax UK events are non refundable, and this event is no exception. This policy, along with a generous subsidy from London Edinburgh London, allows me to keep the price of the event low.

However as the event is now almost sold out, I am able to offer a limited cooling-off period for your entry. If you change your mind before 1 January 2019 and decide not to ride, send me an email and I will refund your entry fee in full. After this date, I'm afraid you will not be able to cancel your entry, nor will you be able to transfer your entry to another rider.

Hopefully I'll see you in Bray next June. I have a cracking route planned, and many of the 2017 LEL controllers will be ready to look after you at the five controls (and two secret controls) along the route. If the weather holds, it should be a corker."

Hmm, I've entered but I didn't get that email.

Not that I'm thinking of not riding, though.

Maybe he saw my name and thought "quitter"? ;)

I entered quite early. Email was sent 7th Sep.

Takes me ages to get my affairs in order - trains, hotels etc.

The only thing slower than my admin is work confirming time off. For instance, my next holiday starts in october. I won't find out if it has been approved untill October. Its bollocks.

Plus - I don't suppose they are going to be a lot of peoples go to rides for PBP qualifying, so I'm doing the honourable thing and not filling up the less lumpy rides!

I'm the opposite. I don't ask for time off, I just disappear...
But organising other shit, that, I leave until last minute.

I'm just doing rides I've not done before that fit in with my schedule. If you can't find a single 600k to ride to qualify for PBP perhaps it's not your edition! :P

Brimstone wasn't available when I last looked so that's a little annoying. I guess I got excited about rides again as some were going up early. Probably should've waited. Maybe I could pull out of Ben Tour and enter Brimstone instead. £16.50 penalty.
I could also do the Perm version of Brimstone but I think it'd be a bit less fun.

Funnily enough, I sent off Wessex perm entries last Friday because I started to get a bit impatient.

BC and WCW sold out too quick - I hadn't been paid. That left Benjamin Allen, which looke like it was going to clash with Brimmers (which ot does), Wander Wye on my wifes birthday or The Buzzard, which I still might enter. Dunno yet.

I'm not doing PBP, so any old BR event will do for me. I'm still not sure what I want out of next season. SR, SR(H), AASR(H) or maybe just 50AAA to complete the set. I do have a Garmin now though, so that opens up a lot of non PBP options for me - Surrey Hills are a lot closer than Kent and Sussex for quick AAA points.

I might enter Wander Wye, but I've done Buzzard twice(ish) already. The Edinburgh one was cancelled so I could make Brimstone my first 600. That would make WCW seem pretty easy.

I'm wanting to qualify for PBP because it gives me PBP as an option if everything else falls through. Plus it's a handy motivator to do stuff. Hyper SR series or whatever it's called? 4x600s all with AAA points?

Just got home and opened my post.

Them new AUK stickers are a lovely shade of blue.

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Go for 100 next year? Can I be bothered?
It's tricky with 40-50 points worth of TCR invalid right in the middle of the year.

I'm not going for 100 again. If it happens it happens, but it'll be incidental to something else. Like the RRTY, R5000 and Wessex SR was to the 100.

I've done RRtY already, not bothered about repeating. What's the R5000 involve?

I should probably try and do a Fleche so I can look at the other awards. Also interested in some international long ones if I'm not taking off a month for TABR I'll have spare time to "waste" riding somewhere else.

I still need a 1000k as well.

I think doing an SR might be my goal for next year.

50points - I'd be surprised if you haven't at some point already.

Easter Arrow - thats gonna be on my list. This gun's for hire.

Forum Fleche?

Anyone doing Dinner Darts to/from the Reunion in November? It'll be taking place in Stirling.

Also, this was just announced as a 400 coming up next year in Scotland. Lovely roads and a night start.
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=109601.0
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/28616231

Do they count as a Fleche?

I don't think so. Fleche are 400s the dinner darts are 200s.