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Make this the year you spread your wings and challenge yourself to ride further! t’s a great feeling. The computer ticks relentlessly on, and with every mile you’re setting yourself a new benchmark: the furthest you’ve ever ridden. It doesn’t matter if it’s 12 miles or 112, the sense of achievement is just as real. You’ve challenged yourself, and you’ve risen to the challenge. Now’s the time to plan for that big ride. You could just go out and ride... and ride and ride until you’ve bagged a new best, but if your legs start to turn to mush and you’re a long way from home you’ll be glad of a few encouraging words and a kindly wheel to sit on to shelter from the wind until you get your breath back. Riding in a group can save you between 15% and 40% of your effort over going it alone, and the bigger the group the less
“Riding in a group can save you between 15 and 40 percent of your effort over going it alone...” time you have to spend at the front! So if you’re looking to do a longer ride than ever before then an organised event is a great place to do it. Not so long ago all mass-start distance cycling events had a single name: Audax. From the Latin for ‘courageous’, Audax rides are all about self sufficiency: riders are expected to navigate the route by themselves and take everything they need with them. If you want to do a really long ride then the Paris-Brest-Paris, a 1,200km round trip with a 90-hour limit, is the oldest regularly run cycling event, it’s been going since 1891 and it’s legendary toughness and large field means that it only takes place every two years. In the last few years the focus for big organised rides in the UK
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