05/11/2011 200 Upper Thames
04/12/2011 200 DIY Perm based on Upper Thames
01/01/2012 200 DIY Perm based on Upper Thames
25/02/2012 200 Kennet Valley Run
24/03/2012 300 The Dean
15/04/2012 200 DIY Perm based on Upper Thames
05/05/2012 400 Brevet Cymru
17/06/2012 200 DIY Perm Portsmouth
01/07/2012 200 DIY Perm Portsmouth
05/08/2012 200 West Bay and Back
15/09/2012 600 DIY Perm teethgrinder's September Sociable Sixhundred
13/10/2012 200
DIY Perm based on Kennet Valley Run Tragedy
Well that was an interesting first full year of audax. The idea was to complete a RRtY using calendar events starting close to home and GPS DIY Perms. This would provide an incentive to get out on a ride every month. Things turned out rather differently, and I had much more fun than the original goal would have offered (longer calendar events in different parts of the country and a group ride).
The month twelve RRtY failure was a tragedy whose root cause, in the best Shakespearean tradition, lay in a fatal character flaw of the protagonist. I forgot to turn on GPS tracklogging until 20km into the ride
. Ironically it was the most audacious of the rides - I started out in the aftermath of 'flu (needing frequent decongestion breaks) and finished the last 30km of the ride in torrential rain with a puncture 4 miles from home.
Now off to enter the Upper Thames again - definitely on the treadmill...