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Originally Posted by Rowan
I am disappointed we weren't able to get our SR series, but there is always next season. The disjointed nature of our local Audax calendar meant we had to hunt down rides in other states to ride, and I am sure that imposed some additional pressure.

And an interesting observation from Machka on doing SRs in other places. She is used to doing the rides in a three or four month window in Canada; once the rando season is finished, it's time to do other cycling stuff such as tris, racing or touring, or simply other stuff off the bike. The local (Tasmanian) season was somewhat limited this past year, and there is an increasing reliance on permanents (which don't qualify for BRM brevets), so we have spent basically eight or nine months doing our series (as well as doing it over the aforementionted winter). I have to admit that my very first season of randos was to qualify for PBP; we started the process in December, including a 200 and 300 over one weekend) and we had the qualifiers finished by February... and that was a very compact and efficient way of doing it, which I would like to emulate again at some point.

To assist in the process, Machka and I are organising a series next season so we know exactly what to expect when we ride them, too. And that will include a weekend of a 200 and 300 together!
There is definitely something to be said for doing your qualifiers relatively close to each other, so that the fitness and conditioning builds for each subsequent ride. I know some riders who do a brevet of some kind every weekend so they're always in good shape, but I certainly can't do a 600k without working up to it first!

There are even clubs around me that do a "brevet week" -- 200k, 300k, 400k, 600k within a week's time. It would sound crazy if we didn't regularly discuss rides totalling most of that distance in much less time.
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