Audax rides

Fair enough, if you can enter, and are not bothered about not being able to list all the rides, and accumalate the points on the AUK website then it is not really worth it.

I personally quite like have the list of rides completed, as a palmares, though obviously thats a bit sad and the reality of actually cycling in great places shouldn't be superseded by collecting points.

I'd noticed a few times you had posted about weighing up whether or not to enter slightly longer rides, I'm not sure whether the question was about being able to do it or not - in which case my advice is just do it, if you can ride 160km without needing to call an ambulance then you could easily cover 200km/ 300km given that Audax is quite low intensity, just eat loads!

Yossarian
I'm not riding in order to have a season's achievements recorded, I like audax because it allows me to ride in this beautiful land without really having to find a route. For me, taking part in shorter brevets is an end initself, though I'm definitely interested in 200 or 300 in the future. Rode 165 or so recently, almost all of it alone (which is another brilliant aspect to audax), and I felt like million dolars at the end, could have made 200 or 250 that day with any suffering.

Thanks for your encouragement. It's appreciated. I'm only doing the Ware 100 tomorrow as I want to ride with a great friend who I don't see enough, who is really not able to ride further right now, but is def' the right temperament for Audax. I'm hoping we can ride longer together one day.

I think I'd have done another 150 if I was alone, I want to do a few til I feel I really know that distance well. Though 200 is already a distance I've done fixed, if only on Dunwich.

My tip for the top is mini pork pies. Amazing.