300 km Centenary Audax in upstate New Jersey
300 km Centenary Audax in Upstate New Jersey 301 +17 km 3774 m altitude 14.5 hours (20 h max time allowed) Strava file here 11 June 2022 was the hundred-year anniversary of the first 300 km audax event, so audax clubs all over the world held centenary 300 km events on that day. I happened to be in New Jersey in June, visiting a friend whom I hadn’t seen since before the pandemic, and when I saw that the New JerseyRandonneurs were organising their 300 Centenary Brevet to start from Princeton, I knew I had to enter. This required me to also become a member of Randonneurs USA, so now I’m a proud dual member of RUSA and AUK. We set off at 5 am from a parking lot, heading through Princeton in the grey light of dawn. There were only 20 of us, and this time, sadly, there was not a single woman apart from me. It was lovely to be back in Princeton where I’d spent four happy months on sabbatical in 2015. The route then took us north into upstate New Jersey. As I cycled through the ear