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Entered my First Audax - now what???
- Thread starter Fubar
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Fubar
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Ah - that would be me starting at 6am then...
Not sure yet if I could face the same finishing 50k as last Sunday at the end of a 300k
http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/16-213/
mcshroom
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- Egremont, Cumbria
it's a calendar event so you would have to start at 6am anyway as that's when the organiser will be there to hand the cards out. If you ride faster then you get bcak before 2am the following day though 
jefmcg
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That's not usually the case. Usually audaxes start with the organiser handing out cards. If you aren't there, he will go home and mark you DNS. If you get to the start late, and the organiser isn't there, and you didn't have his contact details, I would get a receipt, and head off and cross my fingers that he'd accept that. You still need to get to the other controls before they close. IE if the first control is 45km away, you still have to get there by 9am. If you unavoidably delayed, the organiser might stretch the point and accept your brevet with late controls, but I doubt (s)he would just because you wanted a sleep in.
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- TMN to @mcshroom
- I once DNS an audax as we were dumped off the first train from Victoria at Crawley or similar. Tried not to feel sorry for myself, as most of the other passengers had suitcases and there were no cabs available. People were going to miss planes. But anyway, I arrived and the controller was long gone. The ride was all receipts. I now realise I probably could have got an ATM receipt, then rode off and probably got validated.
jefmcg
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My last 300km audax
http://www.strava.com/activities/279506955
because it's was a PBP qualifier, the time was 20 hours despite it being over length. Note the start time and the elapsed time. Phew!!
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Dogtrousers
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It means you need to get a grip.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
It might just be that I am tired today, but what does this mean please?
Distance:
300 km in 20h00
Date:
Saturday 16th April 2016
Time:
06:00 to finish by + 02:00
It means you've got the bug
How about a 400km one later on - http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/16-315/
Followed by a 600km - http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/16-11/
And a 200km thrown in between November this year and October next.
Which equals a Super Randonneur medal if you're an Audax UK member: I get mine later this year
Oh, and of course there's the 1200km jaunt round the Highlands - http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/16-708/
And then I'll see you on LEL, if not before
(if I can make the Highlands one)
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Fubar
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It means you've got the bug
How about a 400km one later on - http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/16-315/
Followed by a 600km - http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/16-11/
And a 200km thrown in between November this year and October next.
Which equals a Super Randonneur medal if you're an Audax UK member: I get mine later this year
Oh, and of course there's the 1200km jaunt round the Highlands - http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/16-708/
And then I'll see you on LEL, if not before
Interestingly I was browsing the Member section of the Audax website at lunch and I noticed this:
Super Randonneur No
Does that just mean I haven't achieved that yet, as opposed to that ride isn't part of the SR series?
I did look at that 600 and the 1200, I think I will just need to give up work!
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I'm starting to see a pattern here.
200km... 300km... 600km... 1400km
That's a thought pattern, not a doing pattern...
7pm on Sunday I couldn't imagine any situation where I would want to cycle any further than 200k - funny how quickly your brain forgets.
Once you get past a certain percentage completed on a long ride IME you become focused on finishing and just want it to be over, it's probably the same effect as the one that, when you need the toilet, allows you to hold it in for ages, but as soon as you're outside your own front door fumbling with the keys it becomes a matter of life and death. Saying that I've never ridden more than 250km in a day before so YMMV
Truedat. I can put you down as a member of next year's Pyrenees team yeah?
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Fubar
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Once you get past a certain point on a long ride IME you become focused on finishing and just want it to be over, it's probably the same effect as the one that, when you need the toilet, allows you to hold it in for ages, but as soon as you're outside your own front door fumbling with the keys it becomes a matter of life and death. Saying that I've never ridden more than 250km in a day before so YMMV
Truedat. I can put you down as a member of next year's Pyrenees team yeah?
Yes it was strange how, normally near the end of a 100k I am desperate to finish, yet I was quite fresh at 100k on Sunday as I knew it was only halfway in.
Are the Pyrenees near the Lakes then?
