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  • markn🚲markn
    Oct 6, 2026, 6:34 AM

    12 of a possible 12 hurrah!

    RRtY is an award for completing one 200km (or longer) ride in each consecutive month of a year.

    That's my third series, but the Audax website tells me I can't have a new sew on cloth badge till I've done 5. The feeling of mild jeopardy always increases on the last couple of rides in a series.

    Today's loop felt more like June than October in the afternoon sun.

    A nice non dramatic way to finish riding the first DiY loop I ever plotted & possibly still one of the nicest.

    Hops, vineyards, very moneyed horseracing studs below Newmarket and a homebound leg North across the fen past Ely cathedral.

    The cycle "paths" from Wicken to Ely are sorta disintegrating back into the earth. So that bit is quite gravelly nowadays.

    A view across the fen towards Wicken. Flat marshy grassland and a big open sky. There's a white dirt cycle path in the middle of the frame.
    Image of a cycle loop round Norfolk, Suffolk & Cambridgeshire in the uk
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  • Kevin CunniffeBlackhound@mastodon.ie
    Oct 6, 2026, 7:50 AM

    @markn Congratulations. I only managed the one series over 10 years ago now. I am thinking of going again, I did a 200 in September, but wondering if I might aim for a Super Ranndoneur series instead next year. I seem to get too many distractions.

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  • markn🚲markn
    Oct 6, 2026, 8:09 AM

    @Blackhound thanks & good luck whatever you decide. I think you should have a bash again. I'll cheer you on.

    I find RRtY easier than SR, even a grim winter one. Mostly that's because of the flexibility around when you ride & the fact you can draw your own route and ride from home. But, the flip side of that is it's easier to not let it happen - because you have a less solid commitment.

    I've done a few SR series, but I find the longer ones tough on my own. I think the novelty of the new (in a different part of the country) helps with motivation for those too. The problem with that is the travel. And bikes on trains in the UK are a bit of an inconsistent 'mare.

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  • Kevin CunniffeBlackhound@mastodon.ie
    Oct 6, 2026, 10:22 AM

    @markn I agree with all of that, the last few years I have got worse at putting stuff off and run out of time. In part it is too many little challenges I have set myself.

    I have done a diy 400 but balked at a solo 600. Over the last few years I find myself riding on my own anyway but it is nice to know someone might be at a control or at the finish. ( 5 audax points this year, the same as last year)

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  • markn🚲markn
    Oct 6, 2026, 4:05 PM

    @thechildofroth great to see all your rides together like that. I think your light blue one almost goes past our house.

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