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The Saracen Road Club Permanent 200km Audax No.1


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Along with our summer 100km calendar event we have now added a 200km permanent event to our Audax selection.

This is an event that can be ridden at a time of your choosing. Full details can be found in the following link

http://www.aukweb.net/perms/detail/SBA01/

Should any of you fancy taking on this challenge please let us know in here.

I do know Laura is considering riding a longer event like this at some stage and Dave has expressed an interest in riding a 200km Audax, although it may well get in the way of his racing programme during the summer months.  

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I've only just seen this!! I'll be up for it, although the climbs scare me....

How fast would we be doing it?

 

As Sean has already said, the group would only be as fast as the slowest rider.  That said, don't feel intimidated, ride at your own pace, if others speed up the hills, let them go and the group will reform.  Above all, just enjoy the day and the challenge!

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We just need to agree on a date, sometime in the summer.

Dave is keen but it would have to be at a time that won't interfere with his TT commitments.

 

Dave if you can throw a month into the ring we could work from that.

 

Anyone else fancy a group ride on this course? 

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I rode this today and I have to say it’s a lovely course but quite a tough one. The ride down to Tewkesbury is an easy start but it starts to get hilly after that on the run up to Ludlow via Ledbury, Bromyard and Leominster. After Ludlow it gets serious with the climb up to Clee Hill Common at 150km a particularly tough one. Finishing the route over Dayhouse Bank seemed easy after that.

 

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It should have been a good view from up on Clee Hill Common but the lower ground was covered in mist.

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2014 saw 27 riders complete this audax (even if I was 22 of them)

 

Here is the link to the 2014 finishers http://www.aukweb.net/results/archive/2014/listevent/?Ride=SBA01

 

The three unnamed non Audax UK registered riders were

 

Chris Kent

Laura Lane

John Cartwright

 

 

On the club ride Ken Haddon, Chris Pardoe and John Shelly also completed it 

 

 

Incidentally this audax was the 5th most popular permanent 200km in the UK for 2014 :)

 

 

The top five were

 

1 Great Dunmow 200 = 38 riders

2 Meridien Hills 200 = 34 riders

3 Richmond 200 = 29 riders

4 Horncastle 200 = 28 riders

5 Saracen No1 200 = 27 riders

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