Originally Posted by Crashtest
Very nice report - please keep them coming. I'd like to get into randonneuring but I don't know if I've got the stamina. My longest rides ever have been century rides on three occasions, and I found them difficult. I'm very impressed with people that can do the 200, 400 and 600 km brevets.
Have you ever done the 1200 km Paris-Brest-Paris ride? I understand that's the Holy Grail for randonneurs.
I've done three 1200K rides:
The Rocky Mountain 1200 in BC/Alberta, Canada (2002)
The Paris-Brest-Paris 1200 in France (2003)
The Great Southern Randonnee in Australia (2004)
And I've signed up for two more this year:
The Gold Rush Randonnee in California (July 2005)
The Last Chance in Colorado/Kansas (Sept 2005)
(See my website in my signature line for more details.)
If you've done three centuries, you can do a 200K ... and once you've done a 200K ... you can do a 300K ... you just sort of build up. AND most important, if you start thinking of a ride like the 600K, for example, as SIX HUNDRED KILOMETERS, you'll have difficulty with it, but if you think of it as six 100 km rides, it goes much better. You just ride 100 kms, like you do on a regular training ride, and when that's done, you ride another one ... six times till you're done.
