Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Audax => Topic started by: andyoxon on 15 August, 2014, 02:14:56 pm
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What would you consider your usual Audax ride pattern to be, what perhaps you're doing this year (if it differs), and what's next. So, you know, 'minimalist SR', RRTY 200s, only if it's officially hilly, etc., etc...
For me, having been going at Audax for about 18 months, it's probably:
Currently, 'Several 100k, and perhaps a few two 200k'.
Next the same, perhaps with a few more 200k, and maybe a 300.
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"If there's a ride I can get to and stand a reasonable chance of completing, I'll enter."
So far this year that's been limited to a handful of local 100s :(
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SR, RRTY, and (sadly) havn't got time for BP
Oh yes, and 2015=PBP
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every year since 2011 i do an sr, one long event (over 1000k) and a few shorter audaxes; sr and pbp next year
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I expect my Audaxing will settle into a pattern of 3 years of the occasional 200 followed by a mad 12 months of 200/300/400/600 leading up to a PBP.
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For the past few years, 3 x 1000+km brevets in various parts of the world and at least 1 x SR each AUK season. Usually a UAF brevet, often an Arrow and RRtY most years. Rarely ride BPs. Aiming to limit next year's long brevets somewhat.
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Becoming less schizophrenic
Currently do early SR, usually at the business end of vertically challenging events mixed with approximately one 100k ride a month with CET Junior done at a more leisurely pace. Try to get in a 1000k+ ride most years but haven't done for the last two.
However, the way CET Junior keeps improving may have to convert to a RRTY approach.
Next year SR, probably with unfinished business on the Pendle, and PBP.
Given that I get limited time for events - pick ones I think I'm going to really enjoy - hence the Wessex SR series this year
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Not over yet.
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It's an SR for me as a minimum, then it depends how enthusiastic I feel.
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Currently, 'Several 100k, and perhaps a few two 200k'.
Next the same, perhaps with a few more 200k, and maybe a 300.
That pretty much sums me up! Been at it just under a year now.
Family commitments generally mean that I can get out at most once a month. This year I have done a 100, 150, 200 and with another 200 booked in for next month and a DIY 100 to do sometime after that.
If it's 100 I generally like it to have some hills for the challenge, longer than that I prefer a bit flatter.
Next year I would like to do more 200s with a smattering of 100s and possibly a 300 or hilly 200 (or two).
I like to keep challenging myself and testing the boundaries of what I'm capable.
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Whatever adamski can
bribe persuade me to do.
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Only recurring goal is an annual SR every year since 2010. Then various rides and goals year
by year depending on motivation, time available and health.
Last year it was LEL, Essex SR, 2 RRTYs, hyper. This year goals are Wessex SR (done), R10000,
Easter arrow (done), Mile Failte 1200 (done), Essex SR, hyper (done), 50 AAA point badge,
finish B5000 (maybe done depending on if one can substitute the 1,000 for a 1,200).
Next season finish 3 RRTYs I'm about half way through right now, SR (Welsh maybe), PBP,
finish AAARTY, finish B25000, start another RRTY when the current ones finish. Probably no
more stupid points chasing, but more regular shorter harder rides to try to get quicker for PBP
to have a good margin to cope with the crowds and time lost in controls.
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1. Event on weekend when Mrs Marton isn't working (someone has to look after the children).
2. Event I can get to without car (family will undoubtedly need it).
3. Event I can get back from without children staying up till unreasonable hours to welcome papa back.
(These basically mean local 200s or my very local 300.)
4. Exceptions (i.e. Mille Cymru)
I don't ride too many events.
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1. Event on weekend when Mrs Marton isn't working (someone has to look after the children).
2. Event I can get to without car (family will undoubtedly need it).
3. Event I can get back from without children staying up till unreasonable hours to welcome papa back.
(These basically mean local 200s or my very local 300.)
Sounds familiar! Although replace 3 with:
3. Event I can get back from before kids bedtime and therefore avoid fraught wife.
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Foreign stuff mostly BRM for some ISR's, some 600's and a couple of other long rides. With an Irish and Danish 200 and a UK 600 to go and maybe the dinner dart if I can find someone to put up with me for a whole day.
And maybe the Schleswig clubs ride to Berlin in October if I can swing it.
Next year, who knows ?
Flèche Velocio/Nationale, not country specific yet, from somewhere to somewhere else.
A ride from St Germain is definite and maybe that other French ride. I might go up to do a 600 in Göteborg, Sweden.
Tournai in Belgium again for something or other, a 400 maybe and Ivo is running a 600 from Maastricht that I would like to do and some other loose plans to finish things off.
Short term goal: ACP 10000
Long term goal: Euro Grand Diagonale Copenhagen - Malaga 2016 and a triangle.
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UAF Audaxes, with a diagonale in 2012, ditto but crocked last year 6 weeks before diag #2, this year BRM 200, 300, 600 + diagonale. Next year will be PBP qualifiers + PBP + diagonale if I can afford it. Oh, and a flèche in April.
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Whenever I make plans to do something, they always go wrong! Was hoping to go for 100 points this year but then broke my left hand in several places which put me off the bike for about 6-weeks and lost all of my fitness. I am keeping schlump about next year!
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Its a
four two yearly cycle of pain, as they say.....[I just remembered I have a guaranteed place on LEL 2017 :)]
- Some lives are measured out in coffee spoons, for me its PBP.
SR every year, double SR in a 'Special' year. No points chasing since I once nearly got on the podium of the Fixed wheel Challenge.
Last year I managed an SR on my own events and hope to again this.
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I go for the "Randonneur once a year" approach - i.e. one 200 a year. :P I'll have a go at whatever BPs are easy to get to, as well - which isn't many. :-\
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I only started audaxing in January last year, so to an extent it's just been picking out events that look interesting and reasonably accessible from London, and giving them a go, albeit with an eye to some of the longer rides. LEL last year (though out of time), Mile Failte this year as well as DNFing the Mille Cymru.
I want to ride another 400 to get a second SR this season (didn't manage one last, as LEL was going to complete it), and am vaguely wondering about trying to go hyper: would like to break the 50 point mark. RRTY fell over in after 8 months in July as real life took up too many weekends, and though I rode a BP I didn't bother sorting out an ECE for it.
Next year - PBP will require an SR, and I'd quite like to actually manage an Easter Arrow after two failures.
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At least an SR series (two last year), and its been hilly rides for a few years, also managed first Easter Arrow. Irish MF1200 was superb. I also try to fit in a few extra rides if possible, and non-audax tours/rides as well, eg Dolomites Raid this year. Next year hoping to find local (ish) PBP qualifiers, and to ride PBP again. My cousin has opened a B&B / café actually on the route, so I cant miss it!
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Enough to keep me interested.BPs in the winter and 200s in the summer.Real life has got in the way this year though :(Oh dear,what a pity,never mind :facepalm:
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Just to provide some balance, not planning to do much next year.
A couple of early season BP's as training for road racing and a few XC mtb events.
I tend to avoid PBP years as all my favourite rides are bunched together in a short period in the PBP qualification zones.
However may do some longer rides later on as a prelude to doing the Mersey Roads 24 hr TT.
Audax provides a welcome distraction to my main ambitions for the year of gaining my BC 3rd Cat racing license and finishing in the top 10 in the Midlands XC championships.
As I live in Derby where we are about to have a brand new velodrome, will also expect to try out some track racing as well :thumbsup:
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Interested in the AAA stuff--well it`s to do with where I live :thumbsup:
So have got in second year audaxing an AAA-SR (Elenydd / Brev Cymru / Bryan chapman) and >50 AAA points (won`t get 100 though, maybe 80) ; aiming for AAARTY also. have (very vague) thoughts about trying for a second SR but clock is ticking away. Hopefully though can convert SR into SR-Cymru with a Cambrian 300.
Interested to find how after a year audaxing the 200/ 300 distances seem quite routine eg `tother half" how did your ride go (referring to Rough Diamond 300)---me "it was quite easy" --wouldn`t have said that last year I`m sure (but have 3 x 300s this year with Snow roads too). Aim also to complete CET`s 50 x 100 rides in a year--on 35 at moment.
Disappointed to have DNS Mille Cymru but other priorities at end June.
Not sure about PBP 2015 but am looking to another AAA-SR--picking rides which will take me to various part country eg Cornwall !! Audaxing has bonus of taking me to places afar for the events :)
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Jethro. ....Please add the running of WCW to your 2015 plans.....
:thumbsup:
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This has been my first full year at AUK so I have no pattern set as yet.
I accomplished about x15 50k rides over the winter and into Spring... I then sustained an ankle injury due to a fractured ankle which has saw my riding curtailed.
I was not aiming to high, I was hoping to get up to the 200k limit this year and continue this as an RRTY into 2015, I was also hoping to have my first 200 BRM for my ISR...
I have the all clear to cycle next month, so will start with small rides and hopefully finish the season with a first 100K under my belt...
Looking forward to training over the winter for the next season. :thumbsup:
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I try to keep a double RRTY going, mostly to stay reasonably fit over the winter as I don't do much other cycling. Also, at 50, I would find it too hard to start from scratch each year.
I like do an Easter Arrow, SR series and at least one 1000km+ ride each year. I prefer scenic, hilly rides so tend to accidentally accumulate a few AAA points. I am married with 10 and 11 year old daughters, so it can be a tricky balancing act at times. This year I had to miss the Irish 1200 and HBK 1500, but was happy to be able to ride the Mille Cymru and Highlands 1300, both great events.
I am also happy to have recently rediscovered the unique atmosphere of the Mersey Roads 24 Hour Time Trial and have enjoyed riding the last two. I hope to ride again next year to test my fitness prior to the PBP.
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Big goals, that are stymied in alternate years by Real Life Events.
Sometimes it all goes to plan, sometimes we end up in A&E and/or on antidepressants.
Next year it's due to go to plan. I will get that 1000k ride done before I die, dammit. At this rate I'll need another arrow. :facepalm:
O, and despite loathing the championships, I still like to win something :facepalm: :facepalm:
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I've only approached an audax year once. There was a year planner on the wall, lots of rides entered and paid for. It was a great plan, it was my SR and my biggest ever riding year, planned out to perfection, with the love of my life right behind/beside me. It was gonna be so great.
On January 25th of that year a 19 year old girl in a Nova t-boned me, killed my fixie, my mojo, and my face, all at once. Great muti-tasking that woman. Respect.
I don't make riding plans any more.
I've achieved 2x100km calendar events this year, thanks to mcshroom and SlowCoach of this parish. I won't be planning anything else.
I really enjoy watching other people achieving their riding goals, and other people's riding reports are the thing that makes me smile more than anything else. I don't plan for me though :)
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A basic season for me will be RRtY x 2 plus at least one SR.
I need the RRtY's to keep it all pumping properly as I ride few non Audax miles.
DIY x GPS with favourable weather (mostly with Mikey) over the winter months came in handy this year, balls to risking my neck on ice and riding in lousy cold weather.
Enjoyed the 1000k in France very much so hope to do more overseas stuff.
Also enjoyed riding Blacksheeps Silk Run 100 with Mrs B, so might do some more BP's with her next season....as long as she doesn't keep asking the orgs for a point. :facepalm:
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Hmmm as pointed out above this year has a way to run.
Next year
1. Keep going through the Winter: RRTY '200's and lots of them'
2. Try to get fit for PBP even if I end up not riding it '200's and lots of them +
3. For 2 above SR
4. Try to keep the rest of my life intact= lots of DIY/perms mid week
But then planning much kind of spoils the adventure
L
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A way to run yet, yes. This year's target is now ten days behind me, and finding motivation for the next months is hard: I tend to go out and get fed up in 30 km. I'm laying on a 200k tootle for our Audax pack at the beginning of September - haven't got a route yet but I know the restaurant for lunch already - and there's the Diagonalistes' concentration in Bourg mid-September - I might ride down from here and come back by train. It's all up in the air, though: right now I've got that back-in-the-cowshed feeling.
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I only started in April this year, but have managed to do 100, 140 and 200k rides and a night ride. If you had told me in March when I bought the bike that I would go out all day and enjoy it I would have thought and probably said "don't be ridiculous"
I have had a lot of pleasure out of the rides and some pain. The general plan now is to build on fitness and hill climbing and try to get at least one 200k in a month. Plus I would like to aim for a 400 or 600 next year.
Anyway next ride is a perm through new forest and Wiltshire in 2 weeks. First perm so I will have to see if I can do this on my own. Although won't be different to calendar events as I usually LR them.
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Never done an audax until this year. Entered the Seaham Sircular and a couple of 200s to keep me motivated whilst training for a Pyreneean C2C.
That training saw me get down to the same weight I was at 18 years old. I really enjoyed the events so I'm planning a full year of events starting from now, including some of the longer distances.
I'm a little concerned about night riding though, having failed on a FNRttC through utter boredom. I get a lot of pleasure from moving through ever changing scenery and at night it just doesn't change. Well, it does but you just can't see it.
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For me there's been a clear difference between years of progress, and of plateau!
You can see this here; the veterans have found or decided their limits, and just choose which rides (and how many) appeal. The 'improvers' will change their ambitions every year, so don't yet have much of a pattern.
I'm trying to do different things each year, but I'm inherently more cautious than most, and tend to gravitate back to old favourite s quite a lot. I need to be shoved into new stuff.
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I'm trying to do different things each year, ................... .................... ............... I need to be shoved into new stuff.
Funny you shold mention that Matt, I have somethng lined-up for you :demon:
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Plans are for other people. I have to be opportunist and ride what's near me when days off without children and rides coincide. So I've managed just a couple of BPs this year (so far), plus a couple of sportives, and might get a 200 next week. But that's more than last year!
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I'm trying to do different things each year, ................... .................... ............... I need to be shoved into new stuff.
Funny you shold mention that Matt, I have somethng lined-up for you :demon:
Last time I thought I should try something new and different I ended up riding a ludicrous 600* through the scoggiest, most vertical lanes in Wales.
*Thoroughly enjoyable, but don't tell the organiser.
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Four of the last five years have been excellent and while this year started off well, it sadly went a bit pear shaped after the Bryan Chapman due to Real Life stuff. :facepalm:
Still, I now have a green light for PBP 2015 so there is something to look forwards to.
H
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Audaxing is secondary to touring for me, and to be honest my minimum target is just to do at least one 200 a season, so I tend to just pick rides a few weeks out when I know there's space in the calendar, pick rides in places I really fancy riding, or pick rides that friends are riding.
2013 I did plan out a year to try and get to LEL, and though having a plan in advance got me to ride further than I have ever done before, I'm not sure I enjoyed the longer rides as much as the BPs and 200s.
That being said, PBP year will have many more longer distance rides than other years, an they are more likely to be before peak hayfever period, so I may just have a shot at an SR next year :facepalm:
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My audaxing plans have been going swimmingly for a few years now. I have planned to do no audax and stuck to those plans assiduously.
I'd like to do more touring though.
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I go for the "Randonneur once a year" approach - i.e. one 200 a year. :P
I like that. Sounds deliberate rather than disappointing. I suppose it means I should attempt the Tamworth 200 in September...
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The last 3 years have been great with a double SR and a 1200+ ride each year. This year I've only done a handful of events as I've focused on other things. Next year will be an SR and PBP. After that I may change direction a bit, it's taken up over 20 years of my life.
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I understand that WCW is down for 20th June next year.