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Penzance X-Rated Events – 11 June 2017

Posted on 26 June, 2017 by Margaret Aldis

 

Audax 200km Badge207km AAA Gold Grimpeur Medal3.75 AAA Four Hundreds 200
AUK id 17-326
4 Riders listed
Audax 300km Badge308km AAA Gold Grimpeur Medal5 AAA Even More Rivers
AUK id 17-327
2 Riders listed
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X-Rated Events, Penzance 5 June 2016

Posted on 6 December, 2016 by Margaret Aldis

A belated post to add the links to the results for these events.

Congratulations to all the riders, especially those who took on the 2016 Many Rivers to Cross route, which offered extra explorations of Bodmin Moor due to the A30 crossing closures.

Audax 200km Badge207km AAA Gold Grimpeur Medal3.75 AAA Four Hundreds 200
AUK id 16-326
2 Riders listed
Audax 300km Badge309km AAA Gold Grimpeur Medal5 AAA Many Rivers to Cross
AUK id 16-327
5 Riders listed
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Easter BRMs from Penzance

Posted on 8 April, 2015 by MartynA

5 April, 2015
Starting from Penzance Organiser Martyn Aldis

The Many Rivers to Cross and Four Hundreds 200 X-rated events have something of a history of attrition. Gales, deluges, heatwaves and hills have produced a fair proportion of DNSs and DNFs over the years. This year looked promising, with good weather forecast and the PBP qualification timetable probably contributing to a reasonable start list for events of this type, but illness and logistics still managed to reduce the starters to a total of ten hardy locals and two “furriners”.

Many Rivers Rider at Lands End Sunset

Chapeau to all those who took part in these challenging rides.

 

Audax 300km Badge307km
Starts 06:30		 AAA Gold Grimpeur Medal5 AAA Many Rivers to Cross
AUK id 15-327
6 riders validated
Audax 200km Badge207km
Starts 08:00		 AAA Gold Grimpeur Medal3.75 AAA Four Hundreds 200
AUK id 15-326
1 rider validated
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Four Hundreds 200

Posted on 10 January, 2014 by Margaret Aldis

19 July, 2014
Starting from Penzance Organiser Martyn Aldis

A varied route visiting the four ancient Cornish ‘Hundreds’ of Penwith, Kerrier, Pydarshire and Powdershire.

Note that this is an “X-rated” event, which means there are no manned controls or specific facilities. You attach commercial or ATM receipts to your brevet card for timed controls, and post it to the organiser after the event.

Audax 200km Badge207km
Starts 08:00		 AAA Gold Grimpeur Medal3.75 AAA Four Hundreds 200
AUK id 14-326
Details and entry from Audax UK site
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Blasts from East then West

Posted on 25 April, 2013 by MartynA

The opening events of 2013 from Penzance were notable for the very fresh and cold wind from the East. The two brave starters of the Many Rivers to Cross 300 called it a day at Camelford when it was clear that finishing in time was no longer a realistic hope. The Four Hundreds 200 next day was a more practical proposition with four finishers. I found the slog around West Penwith and especially from Lands End to St Buryan painfully slow but some rather fuzzy mental sums suggested I could finish in time and after catching up another rider who had lost me before Zennor, enjoyed the final run past Sheffield and down to the lights of Newlyn.

Martyn mends a puncture on The Cornish Hundred April 2013The Cornish Hundred from Falmouth took place under threat of Westerly gales with gusts of 48mph on the forecast. In fact it was windy but not that windy. Making use of the excellent cross-wind stability of my small wheels I made quite a brisk start. Thoughts of an early arrival at Long Rock were rewarded with a loud bang from my back tyre and I was able to review nearly the entire field as they passed me bent in a gateway fitting a new tyre and tube. Caught on camera too.

Things soon looked up with an end to the rain, some fun with the route sheet and the arrival of sunny spells and the pleasure of riding without the waterproofs. Falmouth Wheelers’ cake and savouries spread didn’t disappoint and I made the most of it.

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