Round The Year Randonneurs Log

[Martin]

2006           
2007       
2008         
2009         
2010           

23.2.11 Wye Wednesday 200
6.3.11 Upper Tea 200
9.4.11 Double Dutch 200
7.5.11 Taste of the Test 200 perm
4.6.11 Flitchbikes 200
3.7.11 Fairies Fairly Flat 150+50 ECE
7.8.11 LEL 200
4.9.11 New Forest On and Offshore 200
1.10.11 New Uppertea 200

3 more to go for blue Shiny Thing

[Bairn Again]

RRTY is the crack cocaine of audax.  scanning the weather forecast for every weekend in the month, trying to figure out which one will be/might be the best.  Conditions in Alba in Nov-Dec-Jan-Feb routinely life threatening.  salar55 and any other west of scotland riders would have been faced with a monsoon today while national news reports will talk of cor-phew hottes temperatures ever in October.

YRR - good servant, poor master.

[Charlie Boy]

Here's a question - I finished my first RRTY in May, but from December to June had at least 2 rides per month. So theoretically I could finish my second RRYT in November. I think that's allowed, but does the panel feel that RRTYs should be consecutive rather than overlapping like that?

Life has decided this one for me. Work has been hectic, and a last minute trip round the Dorset Coast perm today is just not possible. So September is my first month since starting this audax malarkey that I haven't got a brevet in. 

Still, the rest of the year wildly exceeded expectations, so mustn't grumble.

I'm doing the DC perm tomorrow if you fancy it Andy.

[simonp]

Rapha Round The Year? 

[Marmitegeoff]

2007 
2008 
2009 
2010 

01/11 Nips 3 100 - ECE 200
02/11 Old Squit 200 - ECE 300
03/11 DIY 200
04/11 Dorset Coast 200
05/11 Moors & Wolds 400
06/11 Seething 600
07/11 Garboldisham Grovel 200
08/11 DIY 200
09/11 Chris Negus Memorial 200
10/11 Venetian Nights 200

Hmm... so much for me giving up RRTY - I now seem to have amassed 58 consecutive months .

Take great care on the 61st as that is when I had my coming together with a moton.

But congratulations.


Geoff

[Uncle Eric]

Looks like I finally might be on track for this elusive award.

06/2011 Windmill Ride 200k
07/2011 Hereward The Wake 300k (ECE'd to 400k)
08/2011 DIY 200k
09/2011 DIY 200k
10/2011 The Anfractuous 200k (ECE'd to 400k)

[Fidgetbuzz]

2 Oct rides done - so that keeps RRTY 8 and 9 on track. An ECE this coming weekend will not only see 100 points for the year - but keep number 10 going too.

[NeilP]

Having only recently discovered the RRtY concept and entered the Upper Thames I was wondering whether or not to start a thread like this so thanks for the last poster for getting this thread onto the front page. 

[mikewigley]

Having only recently discovered the RRtY concept...

Beware, sometimes the only way off the RRTY treadmill involves plaster of paris and pain (as Phil D and Marmitegeoff will testify).  I crashed out during my month 10 ride, and although my wrist is now out of plaster it will be spring before I'm back to a 200 - all being well.

[arabella]

This time round I will give myself all of November for the November ride (unlike Jan 2010, Nov 2010 had the correct number of days, mutter, as the only w/e I could get out was hte one it snowed on etc.).  Then I'm done.
I have no intention of keeping rrty going beyond the one year.  I have done rides in Dec in other years, etc.
I told my sons I would have next year off as well (apart from SR, an arrow, and err. shhh)

[Jaded]

Updates on the AUK site are so lagged that if my Oct 1 ride is not authorised I am out after 11 months. No chance of doing a catchup now.

[Chris S]

Updates on the AUK site are so lagged that if my Oct 1 ride is not authorised I am out after 11 months. No chance of doing a catchup now.

It'll be fine, I'm sure. It often gets a wee bit laggy this time of year. Don't fret.

[Jaded]

Updates on the AUK site are so lagged that if my Oct 1 ride is not authorised I am out after 11 months. No chance of doing a catchup now.

It'll be fine, I'm sure. It often gets a wee bit laggy this time of year. Don't fret.

Bites nails...

[Peter]

Updates on the AUK site are so lagged that if my Oct 1 ride is not authorised I am out after 11 months. No chance of doing a catchup now.

JD, have you any reason to suspect it won't be authorised?  If it was a perm or DIY, and I'm assuming it was one or the other, then as long as all the receipts or proofs of passage are in order, I can't see a problem.  Quite a lot of my rides have not been ratified for up to 6 weeks after completion this year.   I think some organisers have been a bit snowed under with PBP-type pressures and so on.  Like Chris, I'm sure it will be fine.  Will this be your first RRTY?

[Marmitegeoff]

Having only recently discovered the RRtY concept...

Beware, sometimes the only way off the RRTY treadmill involves plaster of paris and pain (as Phil D and Marmitegeoff will testify).  I crashed out during my month 10 ride, and although my wrist is now out of plaster it will be spring before I'm back to a 200 - all being well.

Even when you are off the treadmill you keep thinking "this could be 3 of 12",  but at least it could get me out in the dark wet months.

Geoff

[Fidgetbuzz]

To complete numbers 8,9 and 10 - I need the ECE this weekend, then 3 in Nov and Dec , 2 in Jan and 1 in Feb -- sadly this time a trip to Oz aint going to make those Nov, Dec and Jan rides easy. So probably 9 tough rides to go.

[Jaded]

Like Chris, I'm sure it will be fine.  Will this be your first RRTY?

Yes, I'm pretty sure it will, and yes, my first RRTY.

Foolishly I have a calendar booked for next month, so could be doing it all over again. Mad.

[marcusjb]

Foolishly I have a calendar booked for next month, so could be doing it all over again. Mad.

Once is never enough.

Wish someone had told me that before I began RRtY! 

[Ray 6701]

For anyone new to this mullarkey there is a load of info on the peak audax website 

http://www.highergrangefarm.fsnet.co.uk/PeakAudax/rrty.htm

[Ray 6701]

So far so good.

March: Roses to Wrags 200k 
April: Two Battles 200k 
May: Moors & Wolds 400k
June: South then North 600k 
July: The china run 200k
August: PBP 1200k
September: Two battles permanent 200k
October: Fail 

Time to start again.

[jogler]

What's your typical time to do a 200km audax Fungus?

[Ray 6701]

I usually average 15 - 16 mph on the bike + whatever time spent faffing n stuff.  The 2 battles route usually takes 10.5 hours for 133 miles.

[Fidgetbuzz]

Todays ECE 200 went OK - subject to scrutiny, which keeps RRTY 8,9, and 10 on course. Also clocked 100 points for the year.
Now for the 3 rides in both Nov and Dec - decent weather please

[NeilP]

Excuse my ignorance but how do you get points?

[eeymsmo]

Excuse my ignorance but how do you get points?

By completing rides above 200km. 1 point for each 100km covered (ie; 200km =2, 300km=3)

March 11 - Roses to Wrags 200k
April 11 - Everyone Rides to Skegness 300k
May 11 - Lincolnshire cross 200k
June 11 - Nottingham - Alfreton - Saundby - Lincoln - Nottingham DIY 200k
July 11 - Nottingham - Edinburgh via LEL2013 route DIY 600k
August 11 - Nottingham - Bourne - Luton DIY 200k
September 11 - DIY/Perm version of Moors and Wolds 400 to make up for DNF (complete SR as well)
October 11 - Hopefully a calendar event for a change, possibly "Beware of the Plague"

September 11- 400km DIY completed (and SR completed  )
October 11 - Beware of the plague 100km + 100km ECE
November 11 - To the Races 100km+100km ECE
Decemeber 11 - Stollen 200km or Tinsel and Lanes 200km depending on when and where I am.
January 12 - No idea yet
February 12 - Rutland and Beyond 100km + 100km ECE which should complete RRTY (and my first year doing Audaxes).