Audax rides

Might have to dust off the bike for one of the club's audaxes...
http://www.willesdencyclingclub.co.uk/willesden-october-audaxes/

Entered London-Wales-London. 300s in April?

Entered for next year? Bit keen.

There's a calendar on the auk site. Just filter on 300s.

There is going to be a few. Green and Yellow Fields from Manningtree. The Dean from Oxford. Elenyth from Shrewsbury.

http://www.aukweb.net/events/?From=01%2F02%2F2018&To=4&Days=&Category=&Dist_min=300&Dist_max=&Aaa=&Region=

http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/18-269/
http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/18-146/

The Dean is just about the best long day ride in the south of England.
The 3 Down (Willesden) is not bad, easy out but surprisingly lumpy on the way back.
The other one I like, but can't remember the name of, is the one that does a lap of Kent, right round the coast.
G&YF is a night ride so the weather can be an issue if cold and wet (as it was when I did it)
Elenyth is far harder and further away but a super ride - definitely worth doing once

I'm just in the process of deciding not to enter the Flatlands. Entries close tomorrow. Just one more day to avoid entering, then I'll be safe!

Flatlands

The 600?

Here you go... http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/17-549/

Ooh, a late 600? I didn't think to look for that kind of thing happening this year.

Not sure the bike or my undercarriage is ready for that kind of nonsense.

Hmm... http://www.camaudax.uk/tom/the-flatlands-600-2017/

There's another one the following weekend too! Blackpool-Glasgow and back

Damn. So it's not like CTT where all the long stuff disappears after July. :)

Andy C event. 20000000m of climbing?

http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/17-111/

It's 2 weeks later so 600k, stag weekend, 600k - sounds like a perfect recipe for illness heading into winter :)

Oasts and Coasts maybe?

Thanks, Amesbury Amble looks good.

Oasts and Coasts maybe?

That's the one!

Yes, the perfect storm...
Maybe this time of year you need to enter two in order to get half-decent weather for one of them?
I did Flatlands last year and it was great. I did a bit of a Hippy though and misnavigated so ended up doing an extra 70km.
Actually I didn't misnavigate, but my garmin stopped working and phone batteries died in the rain just before a control, so I followed Jack Petersen, and he misnavigated for me.

There's another one the following weekend too! Blackpool-Glasgow and back

I've signed up for this one. Will be my first 600.

Printing out the BCM application now.

I'm not sure I can do that second one, my folks will be back at mine and it'd be a bit rude to just bugger off on a ride right before they fly back to Oz. Maybe I'll do what I did last time and ride them as Perms when the weather is really bad and there's no light - just to test my motivation :)

Memory lane very similar weather when we started the Belgian pub crawl exactly one year ago.

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Is that Rich in the KW jersey in the first photo?

Belgian pub crawl

The 1000 from Wachtebeke?

Might have to sneak out for a DIY 100 or 200 before the end of the year, haven't been able to do any Audaxes this year (first empty year since 2005).

Oh yes!

Anybody riding the Early Autumn 200 from the Shaftesbury CC tomorrow? Looks like a nice, fixed - friendly ride.

A similar ride was called the Golden Tints 200 and was my first 200 (and my first Audax). Happy memories (of finishing just inside 13h20m).

Always love visiting the 'Uts in Henham/Ugley and then riding in that area.

Turns out I can't do either because we're at a birthday party for the first one.

The Early Spring (or just Spring?) 200 also from Shaftesbury CC was my first audax in the UK last year :) Actually it was also the first audax I didn't dnf'd (tried two in France before moving)

Brilliant ride this time around too. I was fixed and riding with a colleague for whom it was her first audax, so was supposed to take it easy. We ended up teaming up with a guy that did the TCR this year and flying around the whole thing at 28kph. My colleague and I were a bit shattered by the end (our partner for the day just started the 50km ride back to Cambridge) but it was amazing anyway :)

My son's first Audax event on Sunday. London Sightseer. He enjoyed it I think. Stormed round with an average speed of 12.8kph. Beast. (He's just turned 13, and it's only about his 5th ride of any great length). Hopefully he'll manage a full 200 next year.
Poor lad needed some sudocream today I think.

What have I done?

I went out to a comedy gig last night and come back to find my missus, who's never ridden 100k, is emailing me lists of late season audax rides and asking if we should do them.