RE: https://c.im/@wlukewindsor/116079367566282810
This was a good ride but I think I’ll be riding a less aggressive bike for my next event (an overnight 300)!
Here’s a nice picture of a typical HQ at the arrivée and a famous fellow rider and also his more traditional bicycle as pictured at the start.
Waffling on about the 200k ride I did yesterday. There's more detail than I foresaw about Audax UK regulations, DiY rides and the RRtY awards. It's mostly in the footnotes. What have I become.
I started my first RRtY1 series in October 2023, the second in October 2024 and the third and fourth in October 2025. I’m now doing two years simultaneously because… well it seems manageable and I don’t want to take ten years to get the Ultra (x10) RRtY Award. If I keep going with two a year I’ll get that in 2029. Why you may ask does it matter. Getting the award does not matter at all. It’s what goes into getting it and what I get out of that which is what really matters. I suppose that’s not so different from any endeavour.
Route and instructions received, hoping my cold and the weather forecast improve for a week tomorrow! Going to ride this one on a lighter bike this year with less stuff. As we are in a pre-qualification year for Paris-Brest-Paris it is being run as a BRM so we need to present a physical brevet card at the finish (BRM rules rather than BR don’t get me started) even if we don’t have to fill it in because we’ve used eBrevet (which I use despite missing the ritual of receipts and/or stamps). ACP like to keep things old school.
Just entered my first Audax UK Brevet of the year, seems like an impossible task at the moment given everything in my life but if I don’t enter definitely it won’t be possible!
One of the nice things about Audax UK events is if you enter and don’t start you don’t lose too much money and the organiser gets a little donation.
#audax #brevet #AudaxUK #PeakAudax #BR200 #cycling #BikeTooter #LongDistanceCycling
Dealing with the last day of the holidays by shopping for audaxes, because there's a reminder in my phone to enter Barry's Bristol Butt Buster 🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 after seeing @wav3ydave 's write up last year.
Didn't sleep well last night but I've still been fairly productive this morning.
I've tidied the kitchen and sorted out the bags in the front garden that had the tomatoes in them.
The postman brought my London - Floris - London tee shirt!
He also brought a thumb brace I ordered on Sunday - not so useful though now my thumb is healing but already I can feel the benefit.
#arthritis #LEL #lel2025 #cycling #stormFloris #audax #AudaxUK
This weekend is going to be odd.
I'm volunteering on Sunday at the Northstowe control of the London Edinburgh London Audax cycling event.
But I've got to deposit my wife at her sister's place and collect her afterwards.
On Sunday night we're stopping in a Premier Inn near Cambridge to avoid the drive home when I'll be exhausted!
Luke
Alexander
Jon Roach
Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺