Just floating an idea I first mentioned at the Awards Evening last week:
Spring Training Camp
Weekends either side of Easter:
27/28 March or 10/11 April
Possibly extra days to make a long weekend or even a whole week?
Marple Grimpeurs*:
8 x 100km with 2.25 – 3.00 AAA
Also 1 x 200km with 4.5 AAA
Organiser: Chris Keeling-Roberts
Accommodation:
Stockport South Premier Inn & Holiday Inn Express 6km
Numerous campsites & B&Bs to the east in the Peak District National Park
Shaw Farm Holidays, self-catering mobile homes near New Mills 8km - fully booked through to mid-May!
Non-Audax Stuff in Marple:
Macclesfield and Peak Forest Canals (16 lock flight) and River Goyt
Manchester 30 minutes by train from Marple Station
Train links into the Peak District
Middlewood Way Sustrans cycle route
*There are also the more benign Mike Wigley permanents and no doubt others nearby in the Peak District and Cheshire that I haven't researched yet.
There's a few dark and dreary months ahead, probably in some sort of on-going C-19 lockdown/restrictions, to dream and plan for the spring (or summer, or whenever we get back to the old normal) ...