How does the sleeping work for 300k and 400k. I'm pretty sure I'd need some shuteye, especially for a 400k, as I'm a full value 200k rider. Audax hotel for 15 minutes followed by a thousand yard stare?
How does anyone actually do a 200 Km ride in one day ??
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Not sure sleep is needed for a 300 or 400.
I've only done one 300 Audax, with @Trickedem . We left control at 6am and got back 10pm the following evening. With cycling to and from the start it was a 350km ride over all. I left at 4.30am and got home just over an hour after leaving the control that night So with an extra 50km's, I would say that a 400km is also easily* doable in a full day.
*well maybe not that easy....but doable
Ian H
Ancient randonneur
Under AUK rules you have 20 hrs to complete 300k, so no need for sleep (at least for me). The allowance for 400k is 27 hrs. A flat one could take much less than that. On a very hilly one you might be near the limit.
The 300 I organise ran last week. The first rider back took just over 14 hrs; the last just over 19.
mark st1
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Never done one or understood what they are admitidly also never looked. However reading this thread they sound good is there a reliable national website that you folk use ? Or is it all local to each of you ?
AndyRM
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jefmcg
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http://www.aukweb.net/events/
Edit: Damn, too slow.
I agree no need for sleep on a 300. On my 400 (the longest completed ride) I put my head down for 1/2 hour at the Membury services Starbucks, leaving myself about 15 minutes in hand assuming a slow 20kmh back along the A4. Most people didn't do that. I doubt I actually fell asleep at all, but closing my eyes helped.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
AndyRM
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Honours even I reckon - it says "1 minute ago" for both of us.
@Dogtrousers can join us on the top step too!
mark st1
Plastic Manc
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Thanks (all of you)
jefmcg
Guru
Sleeping on a 600: I've attempted 3, one had a horsebox (yes really) by the side of the road you could kip in, one had a church hall, with proper inflatable mattresses and blankets and one was x-rated (ie completely on your own), so depended on your capability at sleep at Exeter services.
London-Edinburgh-London (on again next year!) had sleeping rooms at most of the controls, so every 80-100km. They also supplied ear plugs
London-Edinburgh-London (on again next year!) had sleeping rooms at most of the controls, so every 80-100km. They also supplied ear plugs
Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
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[QUOTE 4274825, member: 43827"]Blazed would do all three in a day, and hardly break a sweat.[/QUOTE]
Don't go there. Seriously...
Don't go there. Seriously...
Dayvo
just passin' through
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[QUOTE 4274825, member: 43827"]Blazed would do all three in a day, and hardly break a sweat.[/QUOTE]
He's so serious, I doubt if he even breaks wind.
He's so serious, I doubt if he even breaks wind.
Spinney
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Mod note this thread has only just got on-topic again - please do not start on Blazed, it only leads to more OT posts that will end up having to be deleted.
AndyRM
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Sorry. In my defense it was too good an opportunity to miss!
jefmcg
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Warning, I'm off down another rabbit hole.
vs
(random image, but typical of my experience of audax starts)
You know, when you use a word enough times, it loses it's meaning? By the time I finished writing this, I had exceeded my average annual usage of "palaver" by quite a bit. The word had ceased to have any meaning for me. Now I am wondering if it's a contronym. Because stopping at a cafe, or mini co-op or petrol station every 60 km or so seems like a nice way of breaking up a ride. This is my definition of palaver (back when I still thought I know what it meant).
vs
(random image, but typical of my experience of audax starts)
