Round The Year Randonneurs Log

[Feanor]

6 months in on my first attempt.
Impromptu 200k ride home from Embra to Aberdeen.

Nov 200 DIYxGPS: Deeside Loop
Dec 200 DIYxGPS: Edinburgh - Aberdeen
Jan 200 DIYxGPS: Northern Loop
Feb 200 DIYxGPS: Northern Loop
Mar 200 DIYxGPS: Northern Loop
Apr 200 DIYxGPS: Edinburgh - Aberdeen

[NeilP]

Oct - Autumn Rivers 200
Nov - SP25 Perm Severn Bridge High Loop 200
Dec - SP26 Perm SE Oxford Loop 200
Jan - Mr Pickwick's January Sale 200
Feb - DIY by GPS 200
Mar - Kennett Valley Run 200
Apr - Harlequin Hack 110 ECE

[Graeme]

I was hoping to do a calendar event for my March 200k (Nigel's Yorkshire Gallop) but it was postponed because of the weather last weekend.  Instead, another DIY yesterday in nice Spring conditions, including hearing the first skylarks of the year.  I even managed to get round in daylight.  And I think I've found the best variation on a route in South Durham / North Yorkshire, a mix of main roads early in the morning before the traffic builds up; and quiet country lanes.  So number 4 sorted (subject to validation):

December - Advisory DIY
January - Mandatory DIY
February - Mandatory DIY
March - Mandatory DIY

Socks, will you be riding the Gallop on the 21st April?

[Kev Sp8]

Debut RRTY completed on the 14th April with Benjamin Allen's Spring Tonic, ECE'd to 400km.

[Socks]

Just seen this Graeme - obviously I didn't do the gallop as it was postponed because of the weather.  I did another DIY on a similar route to previously, for my April ride.  So number 5 completed.

May might be tricky, I'm away for three weeks so hoping for good weather in the last week of the month to get that ride in. 

I was hoping to do a calendar event for my March 200k (Nigel's Yorkshire Gallop) but it was postponed because of the weather last weekend.  Instead, another DIY yesterday in nice Spring conditions, including hearing the first skylarks of the year.  I even managed to get round in daylight.  And I think I've found the best variation on a route in South Durham / North Yorkshire, a mix of main roads early in the morning before the traffic builds up; and quiet country lanes.  So number 4 sorted (subject to validation):

December - Advisory DIY
January - Mandatory DIY
February - Mandatory DIY
March - Mandatory DIY

Socks, will you be riding the Gallop on the 21st April?

[RobD62]

Six months into debut RRtY:
November 2017 Upper Thames
December 2017DIY GPS (Round the back of Bristol
January 2018 DIY GPS (Woodstock Wander)
February 2018 2 X DIY GPS (Woodstock Wander variants)
March 2018 Kenneth Valley Run
April 2018 DIY GPS (Woodstock Wander yet another variant)

All bar the first have been on 65 fixed - the next will be on gears!   

[j_a_m_e_s_]

June 2017 - Ditchling Devil
July 2017 - Jack Eason Struggle
Aug 2017 - EWE Baa Perm
Sept 2017 - Greenwich Mean Climb
Oct 2017 - Aaanfractuous
Nov 2017 - Meridian Hills Perm
Dec 2017 - Around Weald Expedition Perm
Jan 2018 - Around Weald Expedition Perm
Feb 2018 - Around Weald Expedition Perm
March 2018 - Dorset Coast
April 2018 - Valley of the Rocks

May 2018 - Porkers.

Boom.

[Feanor]

Nov 200 DIYxGPS: Deeside Loop
Dec 200 DIYxGPS: Edinburgh - Aberdeen
Jan 200 DIYxGPS: Northern Loop
Feb 200 DIYxGPS: Northern Loop
Mar 200 DIYxGPS: Northern Loop
Apr 200 DIYxGPS: Edinburgh - Aberdeen

May 200 DIYxGPS: Teuchter 200, surprisingly lumpy.

[j_a_m_e_s_]

I'm back on the treadmill.

Let's see.

April 18 - The Shark
May 18 - Brimstone

[NeilP]

Oct - Autumn Rivers 200
Nov - SP25 Perm Severn Bridge High Loop 200
Dec - SP26 Perm SE Oxford Loop 200
Jan - Mr Pickwick's January Sale 200
Feb - DIY by GPS 200
Mar - Kennett Valley Run 200
Apr - Harlequin Hack 110 ECE

Just sneaked in with a DIY yesterday. Thought I'd go for something different this time, parked at Cheltenham station, rode to Newport via Ledbury, Hereford,  Abergavenny, Monmouth and Chepstow and got the train back from Newport.

[TigaSefi]

Oct - Autumn Rivers 200
Nov - SP25 Perm Severn Bridge High Loop 200
Dec - SP26 Perm SE Oxford Loop 200
Jan - Mr Pickwick's January Sale 200
Feb - DIY by GPS 200
Mar - Kennett Valley Run 200
Apr - Harlequin Hack 110 ECE

Just sneaked in with a DIY yesterday. Thought I'd go for something different this time, parked at Cheltenham station, rode to Newport via Ledbury, Hereford,  Abergavenny, Monmouth and Chepstow and got the train back from Newport.

The number for Harlequin Hack is too short or you meant 110 ECE’d to 200?

[NeilP]

Oct - Autumn Rivers 200
Nov - SP25 Perm Severn Bridge High Loop 200
Dec - SP26 Perm SE Oxford Loop 200
Jan - Mr Pickwick's January Sale 200
Feb - DIY by GPS 200
Mar - Kennett Valley Run 200
Apr - Harlequin Hack 110 ECE

Just sneaked in with a DIY yesterday. Thought I'd go for something different this time, parked at Cheltenham station, rode to Newport via Ledbury, Hereford,  Abergavenny, Monmouth and Chepstow and got the train back from Newport.

The number for Harlequin Hack is too short or you meant 110 ECE’d to 200?

Correct, if there's an accepted format for this I wasn't aware but it was definitely a 200km day.

[grapefruits]

I'm seven months into my first RRtY:

November 2017: DIY by 200
December 2017: DIY by 200
January: Newport 200
February: DIY by GPS 200
March: DIY by GPS 200
April: Man of Kent 200 + 100 ECE
May: DIY by GPS 200 (meant to do LWL but it wasn't to be)

If I'd done an October 200 I'd have been almost finished, but I had a stolen bicycle parts drama which prevented me from doing one 

[NeilP]

Oct - Autumn Rivers 200
Nov - SP25 Perm Severn Bridge High Loop 200
Dec - SP26 Perm SE Oxford Loop 200
Jan - Mr Pickwick's January Sale 200
Feb - DIY by GPS 200
Mar - Kennett Valley Run 200
Apr - Harlequin Hack 110 ECE to 200
May - DIY by GPS 200

[Folly]

Pending validation but the BCM 2018 completes RRtY#5 for me 

And the last three RRtYs were all ridden fixed gear too 

[3peaker]

Coronation 65th Special.

Rode my AUK Gospel Pass 200 Calendar on 2 Jun as an Organiser ride to complete 15yrs of RRTY consecutive rides (this was also RRTY28 No 11).

[j_a_m_e_s_]

Continuing the AAA theme......

April 18 - The Shark
May 18 - Brimstone

June 18 - Around Weald Expedition (this also happens to be my R5000 ride this season. Huzzar!)

[BeMoreMike]

Coronation 65th Special.

Rode my AUK Gospel Pass 200 Calendar on 2 Jun as an Organiser ride to complete 15yrs of RRTY consecutive rides (this was also RRTY28 No 11).

Quite incredible...that's beyond saying "well done, or congratulations". My tiny mind can't begin to compute how much bike riding that is !!



Subject to validation I completed my first RRTY a couple of weeks ago at the Moors & Wolds 400, although if i'd known about ECE's and DIY's when I started my LEL training and rode to my first calendar 100 in March last year I would've chalked this off a couple of months ago.

It went like this...

June 17 - "Avon & Nene" 200
July 17 - DIY 600 (unfortunatly 1000km of LEL didn't count for this month !!)
Aug 17 - DIY 200
Sept 17 - "Leicester Circle 160" + 40 ECE
Oct 17 - DIY 200
Nov 17 - DIY 200
Dec 17 - "The Hollies Perm" 200
Jan 18 - "A Mere 200 Perm" 200
Feb 18 - "Rutland & Beyond 100" + 100 ECE
March 18 - "Steam Ride:Quainton Express 100" + 100 ECE
April 18 - DIY 300
May 18 - "Moors & Wolds 400"

What a fantastic 1st year of Audax i've had, i wish i'd discovered it a decade ago !! I'm already 2 months into my 2nd lap of the treadmill.

[Socks]

Subject to validation, number 7 in my first Rrty completed on Friday:

December - Advisory DIY using receipts etc as proof of passage
January - Mandatory DIY by GPS
February - GPS DIY
March - GPS DIY
April - GPS DIY
May - GPS DIY

All of these using variations on a circuit in North Yorkshire, and ridden on a recumbent.  Then a one way trip from home down to Lincolnshire on Friday for my June ride.  I was down there for a friend's wedding at the weekend so a good chance to get the month's ride sorted.

[j_a_m_e_s_]

April 18 - The Shark
May 18 - Brimstone
June 18 - Around Weald Expedition

July 18 - Hardboiled Perm

[Socks]

A calendar event at last - completed the Tocky 200 yesterday so that's my July Rrty, number 8 in the sequence that has started with DIY's since December.  Nice to do the ride in company with a small group of riders.

Hot, hot hot weather and a bit of heat rash on the legs, hopefully that will ease off quickly.  An interesting route, using parts of the York - Selby railway path; and canal towpath, as well as nice minor roads.  Well worth entering if Nick runs this again next year.

[bhoot]

Hello all RRtY'ers present and future. With immediate effect I have handed over the RRtY administrator role to our new delegate Grant Huggins. He will be contactable on the same rrty@audax.uk e-mail address so no change to the process. I am sure he will be very rigorous and ensure that no dodgy claims sneak through 

For the last two and a half years, I've enjoyed corresponding with all of you and collecting those little stories and special achievements which make things interesting. Good luck to all those trying for their first series and those trying to extend their run to earn the coveted x5 and x10 badges.

[3peaker]

Hello all RRtY'ers present and future. With immediate effect I have handed over the RRtY administrator role to our new delegate Grant Huggins. He will be contactable on the same rrty@audax.uk e-mail address so no change to the process. I am sure he will be very rigorous and ensure that no dodgy claims sneak through 

For the last two and a half years, I've enjoyed corresponding with all of you and collecting those little stories and special achievements which make things interesting. Good luck to all those trying for their first series and those trying to extend their run to earn the coveted x5 and x10 badges.

As a RRTY rider I have taken a lot of pleasure boosting my totals. But it takes a lot of effort to keep the tables accurate and up to date. Many thanks bhoot for your ‘turn’; it is good that we have a delegate to continue the admin, as I am sure I echo the whole RRTY chasers with their thanks.
Just added No 28 to my collection by riding 28 no 12 today, the hottest day. July is a short month for me as I have only just returned from a 3 week trip to Slovenia

[huggy]

..... handed over the RRtY administrator role to our new delegate Grant Huggins. He will be contactable on the same rrty@audax.uk e-mail address so no change to the process.

***waves***

Thanks for your tenure and our handover session, bhoot! 
I will of course endeavor to keep up with your claims when they arrive in the RRtY inbox as I climb the admin learning curve. 

[jiberjaber]

Hello all RRtY'ers present and future. With immediate effect I have handed over the RRtY administrator role to our new delegate Grant Huggins. He will be contactable on the same rrty@audax.uk e-mail address so no change to the process. I am sure he will be very rigorous and ensure that no dodgy claims sneak through 

For the last two and a half years, I've enjoyed corresponding with all of you and collecting those little stories and special achievements which make things interesting. Good luck to all those trying for their first series and those trying to extend their run to earn the coveted x5 and x10 badges.

So long and thanks for all the validations