Round The Year Randonneurs Log

[Revolution9]

2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020/21

2022 :
DIY By GPS 200 22 January 2022
DIY By GPS 200 27 February 2022
Och Hills 200 5 March 2022
Delightful Dales 200 3 April 2022
Reiver Fever 300 14 May 2022
Tour of the Borders and Galloway 600 18 June 2022
Solway Coast C2C2C 300 23 July 2022
Devils Porridge 200 28 August 2022
Lumpy Bannocks tae Spott 200 10 September 2022
ECE of Ride of the Valkyries 100 22 October 2022
The Long Dark Teatime of an Audax Soul 200 05 November 2022

One more and I'll stop at 10 years

[Bikeabilityman]

Don’t stop, Revolution9. I’ve just sent off for my ultra RRtY and Randonneur badges, and was gonna enjoy NOT doing an Audax each month, but I’m carrying on. Maybe a x15 RRtY badge will appear one day 🤣

[FifeingEejit]

Plans for #7... erm... will see how things pan out

May - Hellfire Corner
June - Snow Roads
July - Perm version of my Roamin in the Gloamin event for next year (would be 3.75 AAA but I did advisory route...)
August - North Coast Classic 600 Perm (pending validation)
September - Flattish ACME Grand
October - Moulin Muirs Org Ride

Would be rude to stop now

November - Long Dark Teatime, as always sets me up for winter weather, it never always gets worse...

[trundle]

2022
Feb - Boat Ride 200
Mar - Cheltenham flyer 200
Apr - Turing Tribute 200
May - Tour de Ricky 200
Jun - Drovers roads 200
July - Up the Downs 200
Aug - Reading Salisbury DIY 200
Sep - Elan Sprint 300
Oct - Mr Pickwicks Autumnal Outing 200
Nov - London Whitchurch Reading DIY 200

[3peaker]

1st of month always provides the 1st opportunity to crack on with RRtY. So I was awheel last Monday as last training before LEL. Couple +ves. Ride keeps RRtY flowing continuous since Jun 2003; this one completed Series  No 37.
Third +ve was a CV19 hit, so laid low late July and opted to miss Volunteer duties at LEL HQ. Hopefully clear for LEL.

CV19 eliminated me from LEL, so had to rethink my ambitions. New target to reach 100 points in year at age 75. On target if I hit 4 x 200km each month. Managed Aug and Sep and having ridden a 200km on 1 Oct, just 3 more for Oct for the magic 100! Just happens I have 4 series running and Sat completed #38. Next target will be #39 on first Dec ride and #40 next June. This RRtY project is becoming an Obsession!

Early Dec and Winter now the big RRtY obstacle. Managed to gain 102 points last AUK year and well set for this new AUK year. Just completed 1st Dec 200 on dry but cold day to complete Series 39.

[Bikeabilityman]

Series 39? Amazing! I was going to stop after getting the x10 badge, but I’m a few months into my 11th, and still thinking I can stop doing them. Still not done the perm I bought off you years ago 😁

[Revolution9]

That's all folks!

2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020/21

2022 :
DIY By GPS 200 22 January 2022
DIY By GPS 200 27 February 2022
Och Hills 200 5 March 2022
Delightful Dales 200 3 April 2022
Reiver Fever 300 14 May 2022
Tour of the Borders and Galloway 600 18 June 2022
Solway Coast C2C2C 300 23 July 2022
Devils Porridge 200 28 August 2022
Lumpy Bannocks tae Spott 200 10 September 2022
ECE of Ride of the Valkyries 100 22 October 2022
The Long Dark Teatime of an Audax Soul 200 05 November 2022
DIY By GPS 200 04 December 2022

[trundle]

2022-23
Feb - Boat Ride 200
Mar - Cheltenham flyer 200
Apr - Turing Tribute 200
May - Tour de Ricky 200
Jun - Drovers roads 200
July - Up the Downs 200
Aug - Reading Salisbury DIY 200
Sep - Elan Sprint 300
Oct - Mr Pickwicks Autumnal Outing 200
Nov - London Whitchurch Reading DIY 200
Dec - London Winslow DIY 200

One more left!

[Bikeabilityman]

Partway into my 11th RRtY. I was gonna stop after getting the ultra badge, but my club mate is on his 2nd run, so I’m dragging myself out of bed once a month to ride with him 🤣. A x15 badge would be a good incentive too!

[the straggler]

That is very kind of you to accompany and help your clubmate each month until he reaches the ultra goal. 

Big bonus is that you will also achieve you double ultra.

It's a win win. 

[Bikeabilityman]

Double ultra??? Have I not spotted another badge? I need the not so Big Saxon!

[Zed43]

In december I abandoned #8 (running from June), just too busy to shoehorn a 4th DIY in.

But today I finished #5  Numbers 6 and 7 should finish in March.

[trundle]

2022-23 DONE!
Feb - Boat Ride 200
Mar - Cheltenham flyer 200
Apr - Turing Tribute 200
May - Tour de Ricky 200
Jun - Drovers roads 200
July - Up the Downs 200
Aug - Reading Salisbury DIY 200
Sep - Elan Sprint 300
Oct - Mr Pickwicks Autumnal Outing 200
Nov - London Whitchurch Reading DIY 200
Dec - London Winslow DIY 200
Jan - Poor Student 200

Subject to validation - that's my first RRtY! The winter rides are tough - I said "Never again!" many times. So of course I'm looking for a Feb ride 

[FifeingEejit]

Got a weather window at the weekend, another 3 looper 50,60 and 90.

Overnight rain was meant to clear but it was a wet start up the dryside to Kinross for a lap of the loch before returning for lunch.

Fairly leisurely stop and now dry out, down the howe to Cupar and finally time for some reasonable climbing to hazelton, north Fife coast roads knackered again from the freeze a few weeks ago and some interesting looking patches (they look like holes and will be again soon)
Lindores Loch home

Easy 2 loops done and a stop for tea 1, feeling it quite a bit after a month off but the chips are calling.
Up on to the hills to the east by the cadgers and its smooth from there, cutting along before descending to sinimins and along to anster for those chips, lightly refuelled turned at Crail and climbed onto the hill from there before descending from peat Inn to craigton, and back along the hill hame.

Fairly easy route with wasted legs and horribly slow at over 13hrs of which only about 11 were actually moving.

Back on the turbo till Feb...

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[Wycombewheeler]

In december I abandoned #8 (running from June), just too busy to shoehorn a 4th DIY in.

But today I finished #5  Numbers 6 and 7 should finish in March.

Honestly I have trouble when I have more than 2 concurrently. I had two on the go, but after LEL didn't get a second one done in August. So even keeping three running is impressive.

I have 4 complete
aug2016-july2017
nov 2018-oct2019
apr2021-mar2022
nov2021-oct2022

I currently have two series on the go, one started in september 2022, and one started in October 2022

This year my number of RRTY should catch up to my number of SR (ignoring multiple SRs in PBP and LEL years because Ultra Randonneur counts years not SR series)

[trundle]

For a bit of fun (well - my idea of fun as a math geek) - I plotted a histogram of the number of people that accomplish a given number of RRtY series. And I 'threw' a finger in the air negative exponential model at it to highlight the incentive of badges.

I've deliberately zoomed into people that have done 10 or more to make the detail more visible. Kudus to the people that do many multiples of this!

• The blue line bars are the current number of riders with a given number of series.
• The red line is my 'finger in the air' negative expo model with some hand cranking of coefficients to suit the shape I wanted!
• The Yellow line is whether more or less people achieve the model's prediction in the real world
• The Model knows nothing about badges

Which is all a very complicated way of saying we love a good challenge and badge. And I am particularly impressed by those that do 10 and more - that is WAY above what you would normally expect without incentive IMHO.

[Wycombewheeler]

Just found out that there is a 5x RRTY and not only a 1x a 10x

[jdsnape]

I've not been logging it here as I go, but just had the email through confirming my first RRTY

It was mostly accidental in the run-up to LEL, then I realised I stood a good chance of carrying on through the winter. Oddly enough, the last ride was the one I was least motivated to complete, but glad I did it!

2022/23:
Feb - DIY 200 back home from London
Mar - DIY 200 to Ely and back
Apr - G&Y Fields 300
May - A&S 400
June - Wander Wye 600
July - DIY 600 round France
August - LEL
September - DIY 200 in Australia while on work trip
October - DIY 200 to Oxford
November - DIY 200 to Cambridge
Dec - DIY 200 Solstice ride round East Anglia
Jan - DIY 200 to Kings Lynn

[trundle]

Well done - that's an impressive list of rides for a first RRtY!

[trundle]

2022-23 

2023
Feb - Spring Tonic 200

[FifeingEejit]

Plans for #7... erm... will see how things pan out

May - Hellfire Corner
June - Snow Roads
July - Perm version of my Roamin in the Gloamin event for next year (would be 3.75 AAA but I did advisory route...)
August - North Coast Classic 600 Perm (pending validation)
September - Flattish ACME Grand
October - Moulin Muirs Org Ride
November - Long Dark Teatime, as always sets me up for winter weather, it never always gets worse...

December - Ride to Bridge of Orchy
January - 3 looper from home
February - Testing out a possible 100 with it's organizer.

Which since I need to test ride my March event the last week of this month, means #8 might be starting if I can be bothered with 2 DIYs in March

[L CC]

For a bit of fun (well - my idea of fun as a math geek) - I plotted a histogram of the number of people that accomplish a given number of RRtY series. And I 'threw' a finger in the air negative exponential model at it to highlight the incentive of badges.

I've deliberately zoomed into people that have done 10 or more to make the detail more visible. Kudus to the people that do many multiples of this!

• The blue line bars are the current number of riders with a given number of series.
• The red line is my 'finger in the air' negative expo model with some hand cranking of coefficients to suit the shape I wanted!
• The Yellow line is whether more or less people achieve the model's prediction in the real world
• The Model knows nothing about badges

Which is all a very complicated way of saying we love a good challenge and badge. And I am particularly impressed by those that do 10 and more - that is WAY above what you would normally expect without incentive IMHO.

That assumes everyone had claimed everything they're entitled to. I certainly haven't.

[FifeingEejit]

But with claiming the award being part of audax, does those not claiming count?

Someone could have done a 200 every month since 1980 but they're not an rrty because they've never claimed it.

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[Lightning Phil]

I note Chris Whitty has completed one. Likely not over the period 2020/21.

[Zed43]

Completed #5 last January, #6 yesterday and #7 today