Adventures in riding far

    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

Hills, more hills and a bit of the Alps:  600 km round Bavaria 612 km  5769 m altitude 35 hours (max time 40 h) Strava files here and here To complete my Super Randonneur Series for 2022, and as my last long audax before LEL, I entered ARA Nordbayern’s 600 Brevet, organised by Karl and Heidi Weimann, which took place over the weekend of 2 and 3 July 2022. This looked like a particularly nice audax for me because it effectively covered home territory.  The start was in Treuchtlingen in the Franconian Jura (Fränkische Alb). From 8 am the 80 of us who turned up to ride were set off in groups, a few minutes part. It was a slightly cool, misty morning but the forecast for the weekend was hot and mostly dry. Unfortunately there was also a strong breeze from the south-east, though it was forecast to switch back to a westerly direction by Sunday.  Kilometerfresser is ready for his Bavarian adventure At the start in Treuchtlingen The first leg took us on a loop eastwards, crossing the rollin