Author Topic: Poor Student, 07/01/2017 (Read 35638 times)

Redlight · « **Reply #225 on:** 17 January, 2017, 10:02:16 am »

Quote from: citoyen on 17 January, 2017, 10:01:21 am

No idea why I bothered to enter it to be honest.

Because you enjoy hill walking?

citoyen · « **Reply #226 on:** 17 January, 2017, 10:51:38 am »

Yeah, that'll be it.

mattc · « **Reply #227 on:** 17 January, 2017, 10:59:00 am »

Quote from: Redlight on 17 January, 2017, 10:02:16 am

Quote from: citoyen on 17 January, 2017, 10:01:21 am
No idea why I bothered to enter it to be honest.

Because you enjoy hill walking?

Ouch!

Redlight · « **Reply #228 on:** 17 January, 2017, 12:28:27 pm »

Quote from: mattc on 17 January, 2017, 10:59:00 am

Quote from: Redlight on 17 January, 2017, 10:02:16 am
Quote from: citoyen on 17 January, 2017, 10:01:21 am
No idea why I bothered to enter it to be honest.

Because you enjoy hill walking?
Ouch!

It's all right - Citoyen (with his fixed gear) walking pretty much caught me up as I was swaying from side to side to keep upright

alexb · « **Reply #229 on:** 17 January, 2017, 11:22:00 pm »

Phil, had you thought about asking your niece to write up her piece for Casquette or Total Women's Cycling?
It seems like a piece on Audax in a women's cycling magazine might help convince some riders that there is an alternative to Sportives and charity rides

mattc · « **Reply #230 on:** 18 January, 2017, 08:25:13 am »

Quote from: alexb on 17 January, 2017, 11:22:00 pm

Phil, had you thought about asking your niece to write up her piece for Casquette or Total Women's Cycling?
It seems like a piece on Audax in a women's cycling magazine might help convince some riders that there is an alternative to Sportives and charity rides

The link below is to an article on TWC. Just FYI.

PaulF · « **Reply #231 on:** 18 January, 2017, 09:36:34 am »

Quote from: mattc on 18 January, 2017, 08:25:13 am

Quote from: alexb on 17 January, 2017, 11:22:00 pm
Phil, had you thought about asking your niece to write up her piece for Casquette or Total Women's Cycling?
It seems like a piece on Audax in a women's cycling magazine might help convince some riders that there is an alternative to Sportives and charity rides
The link below is to an article on TWC. Just FYI.

No link

jsabine · « **Reply #232 on:** 18 January, 2017, 10:57:34 am »

Quote from: PaulF on 18 January, 2017, 09:36:34 am

Quote from: mattc on 18 January, 2017, 08:25:13 am
Quote from: alexb on 17 January, 2017, 11:22:00 pm
Phil, had you thought about asking your niece to write up her piece for Casquette or Total Women's Cycling?
It seems like a piece on Audax in a women's cycling magazine might help convince some riders that there is an alternative to Sportives and charity rides
The link below is to an article on TWC. Just FYI.

No link

Matt may mean this one from an earlier post.

Quote from: duracellbunnyonabike on 14 January, 2017, 09:34:27 am

https://totalwomenscycling.com/road-cycling/technique/rookie-randonneur-diary-first-audax#kYL74tmYubbA8I5q.97

mattc · « **Reply #233 on:** 18 January, 2017, 11:50:34 am »

Indeedy

Phil W · « **Reply #234 on:** 18 January, 2017, 03:29:54 pm »

Quote from: alexb on 17 January, 2017, 11:22:00 pm

Phil, had you thought about asking your niece to write up her piece for Casquette or Total Women's Cycling?
It seems like a piece on Audax in a women's cycling magazine might help convince some riders that there is an alternative to Sportives and charity rides

She's hasn't submitted anything to a magazine before so I thought I'd keep it low key. She was too busy last weekend and so hasn't written anything yet. Hopefully something this week but I don't want to pressure her into it so she feels she has to write something. Bit of encouragement from me, but if she decides not too in the end that is ok also.

As Matt pointed out TWC already has a Poor Student article as linked upthread.

iddu · « **Reply #235 on:** 21 January, 2017, 12:42:13 pm »

Postal returns now closed, so the Validation Secs/Recorder will be doin' their thang...

Neil C · « **Reply #236 on:** 04 January, 2018, 10:43:06 pm »

Ten pages of discussion last year, nothing yet this.

Will it just be me and iddu in the carpark on Saturday?

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #237 on:** 04 January, 2018, 11:25:19 pm »

No, HK and I will be there, since the weather is looking worthwhile. Between injury and crap weather, I've missed a few editions.

You do know that the title is for last year's event, which would tend to discourage discussion for this year.

Kangaroocourt · « **Reply #238 on:** 05 January, 2018, 01:43:17 pm »

Huff n Puff and I are in too, although after a bout of pneumonia getting around might be a different matter. It's always good to make your excuses early, I find

jayteezim · « **Reply #239 on:** 05 January, 2018, 02:09:25 pm »

i am going down this evening and staying in the travelodge. never cycled this part of the world and will be my first january audax if all goes well. I don't know names however I remember LittleWheelsandBig from the Girton ride a few months ago as he kindly pulled me through the wind on his fixie.
Looking forward to it

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #240 on:** 05 January, 2018, 02:59:41 pm »

I'm not riding it but I might toddle down to Malmesbury and say hello.

Thing2 · « **Reply #241 on:** 05 January, 2018, 04:58:21 pm »

Us Things will be dns's

There's too much snot and coughing going on to spend a day outside on the bike.

Redlight · « **Reply #242 on:** 05 January, 2018, 08:22:26 pm »

Missing it this year, which is a shame as I've only ever ridden it anti-clockwise and have a point to prove after last year's P-O-P cock-up denied me a validated card

. My son has one of his secondary school entrance exams in the morning so getting him there on time has to take priority.

Hope everyone has a great ride.

mattc · « **Reply #243 on:** 05 January, 2018, 08:41:37 pm »

Please look out for ice early on, folks. I've seen (and heard about) too many people with battered limbs on this event, it seems to be an ice magnet.

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PaulF · « **Reply #244 on:** 05 January, 2018, 09:47:49 pm »

Heavy frost 15 miles South of Oxford at the moment.

Neil C · « **Reply #245 on:** 05 January, 2018, 09:50:00 pm »

Good to know others are coming - see you in the morning.

Get well soon Things.

Thanks for the good wishes Redlight.

If others can spread the grit as they go, I'll sweep from the back.

longflaps · « **Reply #246 on:** 05 January, 2018, 10:39:12 pm »

Quote from: Neil C on 04 January, 2018, 10:43:06 pm

Ten pages of discussion last year, nothing yet this.

Will it just be me and iddu in the carpark on Saturday?

And still only at 10 pages. Maybe this one will tip it over to 11.

Looking forward to the 2018 edition!

whosatthewheel · « **Reply #247 on:** 06 January, 2018, 05:18:00 pm »

It was rather frosty this morning... I went out around lunchtime for 70 km... very cold with that northerly wind. Zero envy for those still out there since 8 AM this morning...

Randonneuring in January... madness!

cgg · « **Reply #248 on:** 06 January, 2018, 06:32:26 pm »

Nice ride today, many thanks for the organization!

I had one ice moment, when getting off the train. Not much apart from that, except for some slush here and there.

NeilP · « **Reply #249 on:** 06 January, 2018, 08:11:11 pm »

Quote from: whosatthewheel on 06 January, 2018, 05:18:00 pm

It was rather frosty this morning... I went out around lunchtime for 70 km... very cold with that northerly wind. Zero envy for those still out there since 8 AM this morning...

Randonneuring in January... madness!

7am for us hardy Tewkesbury souls!!

Author Topic: Poor Student, 07/01/2017 (Read 35638 times)

Phil W

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