My SR plans: 2012

[fungus]

Good news: I completed the Moors & Wolds 400k on Saturday/Sunday so subject to validation that is my SR for 2012 done

 

[PpPete]

With the National 400 at the weekend, Mrs PpP and I have completed our first SR.... and halfway through our RRTY.

 

[martint235]

I was hoping to do an SR this year as preparation for LEL. However injuries to me and to a cycling buddy have meant that so far I have done the sum total of 0 Audax. Not good.

 

[Scilly Suffolk]

I was hoping to do an SR this year as preparation for LEL. However injuries to me and to a cycling buddy have meant that so far I have done the sum total of 0 Audax. Not good.

Same plans, same result: lack of work rather than injuries in my case, so I've still done the planned miles, just not in events.

However, it's the Dunwich Dynamo soon and all I need for that is a £8 train ticket, which I have!

 

[martint235]

Same plans, same result: lack of work rather than injuries in my case, so I've still done the planned miles, just not in events.

However, it's the Dunwich Dynamo soon and all I need for that is a £8 train ticket, which I have!

I'm still toying with the idea of the FNRttC to Southend and back on the Friday and then Dunwich and back. My feeling is that if I can manage that I'm a long way through my prep for LEL.

 

[fungus]

I'm still toying with the idea of the FNRttC to Southend and back on the Friday and then Dunwich and back. My feeling is that if I can manage that I'm a long way through my prep for LEL.

LEL is a long way away yet. If you can get on the RRTY train & keep that up over winter & build up from there to an SR & then LEL you will be fine

 

[martint235]

LEL is a long way away yet. If you can get on the RRTY train & keep that up over winter & build up from there to an SR & then LEL you will be fine

I think part of my problem is that I keep telling myself that LEL is over a year away!!!

I'm fairly confident I can do it, my one day distances are fine as is my night riding. However the one thing not tried and tested is back to back days.

 

[Ian H]

If you have difficulty getting to a calendar event there is the option of riding a DIY perm, or there might be a local permanent route. More info here: http://www.aukweb.net/perms/ and in the DIY section below it.

 

[Scilly Suffolk]

If you have difficulty getting to a calendar event there is the option of riding a DIY perm, or there might be a local permanent route. More info here: http://www.aukweb.net/perms/ and in the DIY section below it.

I'd thought of that, but riding 400km and over on my own sounds like a tall order; however I might do just a 200km so I can call myself a "randonneur"!

By the way: "RRTY"?

 

[Scilly Suffolk]

I'm still toying with the idea of the FNRttC to Southend and back on the Friday and then Dunwich and back. My feeling is that if I can manage that I'm a long way through my prep for LEL.

I had thought of doing Castles and the Coast which is the same day as DD, but as I am tied to trains for getting about, I decided it was too much faff in the end.

 

[4F]

I had thought of doing Castles and the Coast which is the same day as DD, but as I am tied to trains for getting about, I decided it was too much faff in the end.

Wuss , just get up earlier and cycle quicker. The train is not till 16:09

 

[PpPete]

I'd thought of that, but riding 400km and over on my own sounds like a tall order; however I might do just a 200km so I can call myself a "randonneur"!

By the way: "RRTY"?

RandonnéeRoundTheYear.
In AUK-speak this means a ride of at least 200km in each of successive 12 months (doesnt have to be calendar year or audax season - any successive 12 months counts). Miss a month - and you are back to zero.
Some find it a harder challenge than an SR.....
As fungus suggests, regular winter 200s should give you some of the mental toughness needed - that is what I'm hoping anyway.