Reading Time: 3 minutes How can this be? I hear you cry. He is always at the back, has mudguards and a saddle bag containing a bike shop set of tools and spares. This Tour started back in the winter of 2001-2. A change of jobs took me away from my involvement men’s lacrosse (Who knew that?).I had turned […]
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Don’t miss – The Ron Sant Memorial Ride
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s nearly time for the Ron Sant Memorial Ride Audax event! Sunday 1st May 2016 What? Audax? Well, for those who don’t know, you can check out Audax UK as this tells you what you need to know about the very idea of long distance cycling. Of course, this event is on the shorter end of the […]
Audax March
Reading Time: < 1 minute Edale 160km and Scouting Mam Tor 200km start from Winsford http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/14-951/ http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/14-950/
Eureka 200km
Reading Time: 3 minutes This is an annual event which starts in Cheadle heads out to “The Mills” then down to Bangor on Dee across to Astbury, near Congleton, and finally back to the start. I have ridden it a few times now and it always seems to rise to the challenge of making Audax events uncertain in their […]
The Biggest One – An SR Tingle
Reading Time: 3 minutes For the uninitiated completing rides of 200, 300 400 and 600km in one Audax year is recognised by being listed in the results as a Super Randonneur or an SR. Last weekend Jim, Syd and I set out to try to claim our places on that list. Along the way a number of other SRs […]
What An Adventure – A Bigger Big One 400
Reading Time: 5 minutes Jim made his own way to Poynton for the 9 o’clock start to this 400k ride. Syd picked me up at 7.30 and off we went on a beautiful morning. On arrival we prepped our bikes, picked up our Brevet cards and with Jim, went for a pre-ride coffee. As we sat in the sun […]
Me and My Shadow or World’s End 200
Reading Time: 3 minutes I believe Syd has been bitten by the challenges, and vituals, that audax provides and I believe he cajoled me into entering my second 200 of the merry month of May only 6 days after the first. I don’t think I was dreaming when he picked me up to drive to the start at Broken […]
A Little Big One
Reading Time: 2 minutes Now the longer days are here an audax man’s thoughts turn to the bigger distances working towards a series of 200k, 300k,400k and eventually a 600k. A number of our members have entered a 300 next weekend and some daft people have to check the route to make sure the instructions are ok and there […]
Mam Tor I counted them out but ……..
Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday saw the first running of a 200k from Winsford to Mam Tor and beyond. There was a good WVCC turn out, 5 at the start, Josh, Roy, Phil (who had opted for this event as their first 200) and Syd and myself. As we set off towards Macclesfield it was a bit nippy. By […]
A Mere 200
Reading Time: 2 minutes Having decided on Saturday for the helpers’ and organisers’s route check and some iffy weather forecasts it proved a good move to ride Saturday. I met a regular Auk ( jargon for audax rider) Pete Hammond at home for an 8.30 depart. We met Jim W at Hartford Co-op and picked up Syd R shortly after […]
WVCC Audax numbers double
Reading Time: 2 minutes I am pleased to report there has been a 100% increase in wvcc members taking part in 200k events in the last 2 months. The massive increase is due entirely to Jim keeping me company. Yesterday those of us with mettle ( or should that be metal and a screw loose) met at the Hartford […]
The weekend’s longest run
Reading Time: 4 minutes What on Earth possesses someone to ride 600km? A question I asked a few years ago when I first looked at the Audax website in search of a new challenge having got all the way to 50 miles on a day out. At the end of my first 150km ride, back in 2005, I could […]