AUK 1000 CLUB

[LittleWheelsandBig]

AUK badly needs an Archivist (I'm not volunteering).  This is not the same thing as the Recorder, who is mainly concerned with maintaining the current results.
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(It was I who first gave her that title by the way - but not to her face and I understand she doesn't much like it.)

The Marmite Queen prefers that to a later title. No names, no pack drill.

I have quite a bit of non-riding time available in the next couple of months. While I wasn't riding brevets in the '70s or even the '80s, I am meeting up with Barry Parslow about weekly at the moment.

I'm pretty sure the ACP maintained computerised records well before 2000. Is that an avenue for early AUK event records that has been explored?

[LittleWheelsandBig]

Incidentally, I don't know who put the awards on Wikipedia but it's an excellent summary of what could seem to be a confusing mixture.   Is that LWaB's work?

No, somebody else has put in the hard yards.

There is a minor error as the table containing Randonneur 5000 and 10000 awards incorrectly suggests that sub-200 brevets can be counted towards them.

[Whitedown Man]

All this talk of the wrath of The Marmite Queen has clearly got Tesco rattled

[frankly frankie]

Liz will be stockpiling as we speak 

I'm pretty sure the ACP maintained computerised records well before 2000. Is that an avenue for early AUK event records that has been explored?

No it hasn't.  And of course AUK did as well, for results and in a sensible format (ie database) from about 1992 I think.  But those files are lost, they were always seen as ephemera required only to tot up the year-end championships - with the paper results sheets being preserved as the true records.

[Delph Cyclist]

... To achieve this you either have to be a more-than-averagely active randonneur for a very, very long time ...

I'm one of the long term plodders working towards this.     Fortunately I have all my pre-computer brevet cards.  My score is 770 points over 25 years and I'm working towards crossing the 100,000km finish line on my 65th birthday.  I might even organise a Calendar 200 for that day.  This would be in 2021 so there's no need to put the date in your diary just yet.

[simonp]

386 points, average 35 per year. That makes it a possible goal.

[Ivan]

I'm one of the long term plodders working towards this.     Fortunately I have all my pre-computer brevet cards.  My score is 770 points over 25 years and I'm working towards crossing the 100,000km finish line on my 65th birthday.  I might even organise a Calendar 200 for that day.  This would be in 2021 so there's no need to put the date in your diary just yet.

If it's on Sept 11, I already have: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=99454.0

[LittleWheelsandBig]

There is at least one pre-2000 AUK who qualifies for the 1000 club that hasn't been mentioned yet. No doubt he'll raise his hand eventually.

Personally, I have over 750 AUK points listed since 2000. One of these days, I'll have to add up my Audax Oz brevets ridden last century, though it likely isn't quite enough to push me over the line. There weren't many events available and perms didn't exist in that part of the world back then. That archaeological effort will have to wait till I can dig through some shoe boxes over there. Then there are the various UAF Audax brevets ridden in three countries that aren't counted.

[postie]

Anyone we know?

[LittleWheelsandBig]

You'd know him, postie. Have a look at some of the championship riders around the time of the Marmite Queen.

[Delph Cyclist]

You'd know him, postie. Have a look at some of the championship riders around the time of the Marmite Queen.

Is it just me who doesn't know who this Marmite Queen is?  Nor the rider alluded to above?  I'm not even sure who Delph Cyclist is for that matter.

[mattc]

You'd know him, postie. Have a look at some of the championship riders around the time of the Marmite Queen.

Is it just me who doesn't know who this Marmite Queen is?  Nor the rider alluded to above?  I'm not even sure who Delph Cyclist is for that matter.

Don't YOU live near Delph? You probably know him, if he really is a cyclist.

[LittleWheelsandBig]

You'd know him, postie. Have a look at some of the championship riders around the time of the Marmite Queen.

Is it just me who doesn't know who this Marmite Queen is?

FF's reply #44 gives the answer. She was the first to receive a 100,000km award from AUK.

[Somnolent]

http://www.aukweb.net/results/fame/r100k/

If anyone would like to participate in the 'historical researches' alluded to on that page, a DVD of several thousand scanned event results sheets (1987 -2000) can be sent on request.

[LittleWheelsandBig]

Good to see that list.

Checking the DVD might be useful, after checking ACP's database for early AUK records. Alain Collongues is probably the best person to ask for that. I and several others helped him sort out discrepancies in ACP's PBP records several years ago. His English is much better than my French.

[frankly frankie]

Jim Hopper should undoubtedly be on that list.  His running total of points for the 17 years since 2000 is 534, and during the 18 years '82-'99 as a younger man he was certainly more active before 2000 than after, including 18 SR years, 5 PBPs, 4 trike championships (points unspecified) and 2x Brevet 5000, all documented online in that pre-2000 dark ages.

[LittleWheelsandBig]

You are certainly correct FF. Even though in the early years, I think Jim was fitting SRs around ship voyages, he had quite a few high mileage years last century. Don't forget how many Easter and Summer Arrows Jim has ridden (more than any other AUK?). He racked up 300,000 miles on trike many years ago and a fair number of those miles would have been during brevets.

[LittleWheelsandBig]

FF and I have scans of all of ACP's records for AUK's events between 1976 and 1987. Now to start the tedious task of data entry. I've already started that task for AUK's scans of their own records for events between 1987 and 2000. The AUK calendar was a bit bigger by then.

[frankly frankie]

And I have identified 16 more SRs in 1983, raising the total from 84 to 100, there are probably still another few not yet found.  This was one of 3 years that the published SR lists are known to be incomplete (the others are 1979 and 1987)

[bikey-mikey]

Just saw this post, but it doesn't seem quite up to date from my understanding, so here is a bit more 'stuff'...

On the AUK website we have a page about our range of Randonneur awards

http://www.aukweb.net/results/randonneur/

And at the bottom an award called     Randonneur 100,000

and the description says

Randonneur 100,000
Created in 2016, the Randonneur 100,000 is awarded to those who, within any period of time, complete BR, BRM, ACP or RM events comprising a total distance of at least 100,000 km at randonneur standard.

It seems to me that 100,000 kms in BR etc events is the same as 1,000 points, but using the same generic descriptive as R5,000 and R10,000 i.e. a certain number of kilometres, seems more logical and understandable.

Indeed we gave out quite a number of awards simply engraved as
100,000 kilometres
A N Rider
at last year's awards presentation, and I had to order another THREE for this year's reunion....

I haven't had any official confirmation that these will in future be RANDONNEUR 100,000 but it seems logical, and in accordance with the official website awards page....

Incidentally there is also a hall of fame page:-
http://www.aukweb.net/results/fame/r100k/
This has a fairly long list, but obviously it would be great if errors and omissions could be identified and reported back.

Note also the old and new Badge designs still are at the generic name stage... I particularly like the new Badge graphics, with the zeroes looking like bike wheels...

[Somnolent]

I haven't had any official confirmation that these will in future be RANDONNEUR 100,000 ....

I refer the honourable gentleman to http://www.aukweb.net/official/aukregs/   Appendix 13.2.4 (ix)
The italics would seem to indicate that it is an amendment yet to be ratified at AGM.
Official enough?

[bikey-mikey]

Cool

Ta

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