Lost Audaxes

[salar55]

Name 3 audaxs that only run one or two times (start towns). I will start, great times seeing different areas of the country.

1 Kilmarnock , over the Ayrshire alps into Galloway forest.
2 Girvan, South West Scotland, with a section of  strade bianche on the forest tracks.
3 Garve, over all the hills to Skye and back.

[Geriatricdolan]

Such a great game...

[Blade]

1. Telford - Aberystwyth -Telford   300k

2. Circuit of the Clees 200k  Start and finish at Wolverhampton

3. Trysull Audaxes 100k , 200k ,300k Started south of Wolverhampton. 300k went to Bala and back.

[Redlight]

The 2015 National 400 from Dingwall - most beautiful and enjoyable randonnee I've yet ridden.  Does that count, though?

[Jethro]

1. Cotswold Corker 100k from Bishops Cleeve.  A very popular early season event with a few hills!

2.  Wolverhampton 400k - A main road route south to Bristol then back to Wolverhampton before a final 100k up the A41 to Prees (Whitchurch) and back to Woilverhampton.  Organised and run by the late Harry Kimberley.

3. Exmoor 200k Grimpeur from Bridgwater (later from Minehead).  Was known as the April Fools Grimpeur as it was held annually on or near to 1st April.

[De Sisti]

1. Cotswold Corker 100k from Bishops Cleeve.  A very popular early season event with a few hills!

The Cotswold Corker was run for several years. I rode many of them.

[FifeingEejit]

The 2015 National 400 from Dingwall - most beautiful and enjoyable randonnee I've yet ridden.  Does that count, though?

Did you go down the right Glen?

[salar55]

Are you wanting me to delete this thread. 🤭.

[Redlight]

The 2015 National 400 from Dingwall - most beautiful and enjoyable randonnee I've yet ridden.  Does that count, though?

Did you go down the right Glen?

I took the organiser's advice and avoided the damaged road, whichever route that was. I think it was a few km longer. If it had been in daylight I'd have taken my chances but I have had the experience of hitting a very large hole in the dark and doing enough damage not to be able to finish an event (the BCM) in time, so I wasn't going to chance getting stuck up there with a long walk to the nearest station.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

I think this run only once or twice.  It was my first 200km calendar ride - Woldingham (S London) - journeyed around the North Downs into Kent (2003)

Also have fond memories of the Tavistock rides.

[frankly frankie]

1. Telford - Aberystwyth -Telford   300k

Hmm - I rode that one at least 5 times, always my favourite 300 - until the day the landlord of a pub in Aberystwyth came out and tipped a bottle of bleach over my bike.  Organised by esteemed veteran Ken Lightwood, who was reported to have so many date bars on his WCW 600 medal that they dragged in his soup.

I organised two events that each only ran once - a Lake District 400 that crossed every road pass (one of them twice, for topographical reasons) plus Hartside on the night loop which was a higher crossing than any of them - AAA points off the scale - awful weather on the day, 25 entered, 12 started, 6 finished.  And a Chester(field) 300, half easy half hilly, still a nice circuit I think.

[tyrelever]

Winton 100 and 200 lovely routes into the North Hampshire Downs

[3peaker]

1. Cotswold Corker 100k from Bishops Cleeve.  A very popular early season event with a few hills!

The Cotswold Corker was run for several years. I rode many of them.

You can still ride the Corker as a Perm from my list. My route closely follows Sean Graff's original; variation allow for usable commercial Controls. Big problem with many Feb rides is ice, which is prevalent on the untreated lanes of the Corker route.

[mikek]

Danial Webb's Midland Super Grimpeur 300 starting from Mere Green (North Birmingham). It was a brutally hilly ride to Holmfirth and the Peak District.  The best memories for me of any 300 that I have ridden. I might do this again as a diy ride when this is possible but would find it harder still being 12 years older.

[Feanor]

The Golden Road and Standing Stones 300 from Stornoway ran 3 times, I think.
For logistical reasons, I was only able to ride the first one.

[GdS]

The CTC National 400 they even did a badge  . My first 400 in 2002 organised by rob OTP before I was even an AUK member (and I thought at the time that would be my longest ever ride fool!). Pam Pilbeam ran the last one in 2004 which glued together her 300 via the New Forest to Blandford Forum and her Whitchurch 100 which still ran as a GdS until a couple of years ago.

Proper Z stop at Denmead with comfy mattresses to boot 

which reminds me; the Irish Mail 400 

[hellymedic]

I think this run only once or twice.  It was my first 200km calendar ride - Woldingham (S London) - journeyed around the North Downs into Kent (2003)

Also have fond memories of the Tavistock rides.

Was that Mark Waters' South Downs 200? My computer only registered 188km...

[hellymedic]

Northampton-Southampton-Northampton 400.

I think this only ran twice. It was my first 400 in 1994.

[hellymedic]

I *loved* The Daylight.

I live 400km from Dalmeny, can't hold a pen, don't drive or have a car and can only *just* dress without assistance.

Which makes me a keyboard warrior.

[GdS]

I think this run only once or twice.  It was my first 200km calendar ride - Woldingham (S London) - journeyed around the North Downs into Kent (2003)

Also have fond memories of the Tavistock rides.

Was that Mark Waters' South Downs 200? My computer only registered 188km...

I did 2 from Woldingham / Warlingham which would have been Tim W; the Surrey Kent Romp which had a cloth badge and the Roadrunner organised by Norman Lazarus also of Willesden CC

Tim also did the Tour of 3 Counties 100 of which I have a badge. Never did his Brass Monkey 100 which was similar IIRC. To Battle and Back lives on as Around Weald Expedition perm (and x2 as a calendar)

I did run Meridian Hills 200 once as a calendar in 2014 but it lives on as a very popular perm

[salar55]

The national 400 out of Linlithgow and Linlithgow ctc ran a few more. The only issue was the midday start to make one cycle thro the night,  but it had perfect weather.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

I think this run only once or twice.  It was my first 200km calendar ride - Woldingham (S London) - journeyed around the North Downs into Kent (2003)

Also have fond memories of the Tavistock rides.

Was that Mark Waters' South Downs 200? My computer only registered 188km...

It was the Roadrunner

I did 2 from Woldingham / Warlingham which would have been Tim W; the Surrey Kent Romp which had a cloth badge and the Roadrunner organised by Norman Lazarus also of Willesden CC

Tim also did the Tour of 3 Counties 100 of which I have a badge. Never did his Brass Monkey 100 which was similar IIRC. To Battle and Back lives on as Around Weald Expedition perm (and x2 as a calendar)

I did run Meridian Hills 200 once as a calendar in 2014 but it lives on as a very popular perm

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

The CTC National 400 they even did a badge  . My first 400 in 2002 organised by rob OTP before I was even an AUK member (and I thought at the time that would be my longest ever ride fool!). Pam Pilbeam ran the last one in 2004 which glued together her 300 via the New Forest to Blandford Forum and her Whitchurch 100 which still ran as a GdS until a couple of years ago.

Proper Z stop at Denmead with comfy mattresses to boot 

which reminds me; the Irish Mail 400 

The CTC National in 2004 was my first 400.  If I remember correctly, El Supremo operated the control at Whitchurch, on top of the hill.  Fuelled by an assortment of pastries I flew back to Denmead.

[andrew_s]

I *loved* The Daylight.

The Daylight was an ace ride 

The timing allowed for a proper sit down pub dinner at Acharacle once time.
It also had my favourite bit of route sheet:
R from control; R@T (40 km) ; Control on R (18 km) ; 1^st exit at RAB (60 km) ; Control on R (5 km)

Another of that vintage that I liked was the Knotty 600
Nottingham - Matlock - Snake to Glossop - Sowerby Bridge, Keighley - Kettlewell - Fleet Moss to Hawes - Appleby - Penrith - Kirkstone to Ambleside - Coniston - 100 km straight down the A6 from Levens Bridge to about Bolton - Alderley Edge - Cat & Fiddle to Buxton - Nottingham

[Feanor]

Although the Twilight 600 is consigned to history as a cal event, it lives on as DIY.
It is well worth a go.

https://www.strava.com/activities/682367417