I don't know how it makes me feel, it's all a blur.
I have some vague recollection of nice scenery, some nice cafes, being very cold and having cramp in my neck but I may have been dreaming.
I'll never write a ride report for Arrivee because I can never remember much about the ride.
"I set off from Chepstow one morning, then I think I was stood in a place called Bedgellert in the rain some time after that. There was a Youth Hostel and a bunk bed up a very steep road next to a beautiful stream, an ungodly long hill with night time views of a power station, my body started to hurt and then I was in Chepstow again."
Does that constitute a ride report?
Audax makes me feel like I'm having an adventure, even 200k rides.
There's a small lane, between Hay on Wye and Builth Wells, parallel to the A470, that I have cycled along 3 times now, once at midnight (on that occasion I cycled there from Sussex ferchristssake!). It's a lane that I doubt 99% of the residents of Hay on Wye know about. Finding myself on that lane now makes me realise I'm having an adventure, a long way from home. I like that.
I like the feeling that I could cycle all the way back, from that Welsh lane, to my home in Hampshire if I needed to.
I like that, since I started Audaxing, I will now regularly cycle to my parents' house for a cuppa after work, in the dark, in the rain, in the cold..whatever. It's only a 27 mile round trip on pitch-black country lanes, just half of a London-Brighton Charity ride.
Audax makes me feel I'm a proper cyclist