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The (Not Quite) Midsummer 300

When I started to audax a few years back I came up with a 300km route that I planned to do on midsummer’s day – along the Sussex and southern […]

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Meridian Hills [AAA Brevet des Grimpeurs du Sud 200km audax perm]

Meeting friends on a cold dark petrol station forecourt. Sunrise […]

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Down to Downs [AAA Brevet des Grimpeurs du Sud audax perm]

We start the climb up to Black Hill in darkness, […]

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six hundred

I can feel tears welling up. My sunglasses are in my jersey pocket so there’s no way I’m going to hide this. I drift backwards from Jo’s side. I look […]

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Cogidubnus Cheese and Cake Double Century

“Please take a banana. I hate them.” I chase wheels through the southwest fringes of London, from Richmond station over the Thames, out through Bushy Park and over the Thames […]

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Scuffing the edges

Riding on the edge. Not the ragged edge but the blurred edge of what I think is possible. Travelling along ancient ways, drove roads and holloways. Ignoring the red and […]

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a tour of Essex with forays over the border into Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Suffolk biplanes over rolling Cambridgeshire fields, skylark song the aural equivalent to the shapes of the wind […]

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The Man of Kent 300

Start, kilometre 0 – Tonbridge, Saturday 20:30 Proof of passage: Sainsbury till receipt, 2 litre bottle of Evian Preparations for this overnight perm haven’t exactly been perfect. Last night George […]

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The Shark [Brevet des Grimpeurs du Sud 2016 ride #2]

Waiting in an underground car park early in the morning […]

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Kent Invicta Grimpeur [Brevet des Grimpeurs du Sud 2016 ride #1]

A quiet, pretty corner of Kent, lanes tucked away between […]

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Greenwich Mean Climb 300km [Brevet des Grimpeur du Sud ride #6]

04:29, Dyke Road, Brighton, heading for London. Underworld are played […]

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Mid Sussex Hilly [Brevet des Grimpeur du Sud ride #7]

Sat in a village hall, with a slices of cake […]

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AAA Milne (Brevet des Grimpeurs du Sud ride #5)

Yesterday I completed my series of Brevet Des Grimpeurs Du […]

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The Reliable

It’s Wednesday lunchtime and I’m strolling to the Post Office with an envelope full of brevet cards and receipts. It seems a bit anachronistic in these days of gps recording […]

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The Return of Mad Jack

Mad Jack’s – John Seviour Memorial Audax Last year Mad Jack’s event was supposed to be my first ever audax. It didn’t quite go to plan. This year’s attempt looked […]

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The (Not Quite) Midsummer 300

Meridian Hills [AAA Brevet des Grimpeurs du Sud 200km audax perm]

Down to Downs [AAA Brevet des Grimpeurs du Sud audax perm]

six hundred

Cogidubnus Cheese and Cake Double Century

Scuffing the edges

Kingdom of the East Saxons

The Man of Kent 300

The Shark [Brevet des Grimpeurs du Sud 2016 ride #2]

Kent Invicta Grimpeur [Brevet des Grimpeurs du Sud 2016 ride #1]

Greenwich Mean Climb 300km [Brevet des Grimpeur du Sud ride #6]

Mid Sussex Hilly [Brevet des Grimpeur du Sud ride #7]

AAA Milne (Brevet des Grimpeurs du Sud ride #5)

The Reliable

The Return of Mad Jack