Brevets are randonneur rides and for a whole bunch of information go to www.rusa.org for a history of randonneuring, what brevets are, etc. etc. etc.
At the ripe old age of (mumble..mumble..mumble...) I figure it's time I created a bucket list of brevets I want to do. Bucket list? You didn't see the movie with Jack Nicolson and Morgan Freeman? Rent it. Netflix it. Buy it. Whatever....but enjoy it.
So here's my bucket list of brevets (as best I can remember before me BJ Blog was destroyed...what a sad day that was.)
Any 200km brevet here:
Texas with Dan Driscoll and his randonneurs.
Santa Cruz with Bill Bryant and Lois Springsteen, two stalwarts of RUSA and just good, fun people.
OrRando, the Oregon Randonneurs Group. My home but not there as much as I wannabee.
Washington State with Don Bootby or Raleighdon as he's known on BJ
PA or NJ.
North Carolina
Colorado
Wisconsin
At least two more 600km brevets and I don't care where
England, France, Germany. I'll take a brevet any time over there.
And maybe a 1200km brevet.
Paris Brest Paris: The olympics of rando rides. Year 2011 next one up.
Great Southern Randonee: Australia Oh my yes. Even if it takes me 120 hours.
Colorado just becuase it's the "Last Chance Randonnee".
Don't know precisely why I enjoy enduro type of rides, but I do. I surely do.
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.jpg)  Did they actually change the rules to adding another qualification brevet of 800 K (I think they even discussed another 1000K-qualifying brevet as prerequisite)?
Also, you better do one of your 1,200K brevets in 2010 as they might ask for yet another qualification long-distance if you haven't done one the year prior to PBP.
Great goal you've set yourself there (great in every sense of the word) - I know only one person who has finished PBP (actually three times so far) and he's been around some 6 decades and more by now, so it is definitely doable. Will be interesting to follow your preparations, progress and milestone successes on the way to PBP 2011. You go, SloJoe!
posted by bxa on
11/3/2008
at 3:31:40 AM
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