300 km brevet

[Manjula Sridhar]

All,

For some reason there seems to discrimination against brevets starting with odd numbers :-). No threads on that, 200, 400, 600 and 1000 are discussed in glory.

So here it is. 10 of us started at 10 PM on Saturday and I think most of us made it (unless I get updates now).

It was needlessly difficult as far as 300 KM distances go as it started at 10 PM. So sleep deprivation and heat made it very difficult in the last stretch. Most of us rode together until first control and finished 200KM around 9 PM (11 hours) however next 100 took almost 7-8 hours.

Few memorable moments :

• A police car with some senior cops in them stopped me around 1 PM and inquired what the hell was I doing at such "Odd" hours alone. I told them I wasn't alone and in fact was riding with few folks until they stopped. Of course I explained what brevet is and they had very skeptical looks :-).
• Chiddu,opendro, deepak (1000K heroes) at different point overtook me very cheerfully and I felt like jumping off the next fly-over that was negotiating at 2KM/hour. But seriously hats off to them.
• Reaching CCD for a great crowd and having all sorts of food.

Finally thanks to Parag who rallied us through-out the night. 

Others 300 KM please update how yours went.

Regards,

Manjula.

[Venkatesh N]

Great going, Manjula!

Congratulations! :)

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Manjula and 10 others,

Congratulations....

Sorry i forgot....superb ride there, riding in the night and day heat.

Hats off!!!

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Subject: [BBC] 300 km brevet

[Nalla P Konar]

Great ride Manjula..
Kudos and Hats off to Brevet riders of all series.. to finishers as well as folks who couldnt finish.

Manjula, you mean the cop stopped at night time?? 1 am or noon time 1pm ??

Rgds,
Nalla.
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[Kishan Kumar]

Congratulations Manjula! I'm going to draw inspiration from the 300 folks than any other coz that's what I would be attempting next month :) so thank you for the crisp write up!

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[Nagaraj mr]

Staturday Nit at 10.00Pm me and 9 other folks attempted 300 brm. Ride started from MG road CCD.. First check point was at Hiriyur which is 161kms away from bangalore. It was 11.30 whn we hit Tumkur road highway due to junk weekend traffic from Mg road till tumkur road. After that I got seperated from team. Me and another guy called Srikant rode till sira which is 120 kms from bangalore. we covered first 120kms at an avg speed of 32kmh although it was deadly dark in the night. As per my calculation i was supposed to reach Hiriyur(first control station) at 3.45am or 4am..But there was a big tragedy happened to me. I was hell speepy as I had office on saturday and no proper rest.. I did nt realized I almost reached Chitradurga (which is 40kms away from first check point i .e hiriyur)  until I saw sunrise.. thn I reached Hiriyur at 6am.. had a good breakfast at hiriyur and time pass till 8.30... Decided to do non-stop ride to bangalore. did nt even stopped for lunch... while riding bak got 3 bak to bak flats. Managed to fix it quickly as I was carrying spare tube wit me. Reached bangalore at 1.30 pm.. When I noticed my speedo meter it was showing 370 kms with total trip time as 12.45hrs with an avg speed 28kmph(Trust me). Whr as total time taken to complete this brevet ride was 15hrs(I would hav completed in 12hrs if I had nt missed my route which made me to cover additional 60kms) . I am happy with the performance. Planning to attempt 200, 400 and 600 which is happening to next month. 

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[Rajanikanth Puttabuddi]

Yes manjula. It was an awesome effort from your side. Surprisingly It was getting hot when i thought we would have lot of winds/rain.
Riding alone is the worst part - I took a small break to get some water and it created a gap between me and my friends.
I couldn't close the gap till the end though the pace was more or less the same as others. Most of the time it will be a km or 2.

Having said that, i agree with you when you say we all get influenced a lot by these 1000 finisher's. In fact i was spinning a lot till 130 km
but only when i met chidu i got into bigger chain ring and started riding fast. I just couldn't digest the fact that somebody who is riding
for the last 3 days comes around and overtakes the 200 km riders who were riding fresh since that morning.
I couldn't believe that somebody could attack those climbs by standing up and mashing after 900kms of riding.
If not for chasing chidu i would have enjoyed riding with you. Happy that you completed 300. Congrats again.

rk

[Basker Ramachandran]

Manjula,
You are very right.. I was wondering what happened to the 300 KM ride and there you go. your email !! :) Hearty congratulations..

regarding your comment on the cops, poor chaps.. They don't do their job and they get pulled up and they do their job and then also they get pulled up :))) I really wish I was there witnessing the fun of they trying to understand what this 'god damn ride' is all about :D

Basker
(Basker Ramachandran)
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+91 9945602485

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Manjula Sridhar <manjula...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Yogesh]

Super awesome effort Manjula! And everyone else who rode the 300!

My wife was there at CCD when I finished my 200 and she was overly thrilled to see you finish! You are an inspiration and if she does start biking now, major credit would go to you!! :-)

Cheers!

Yogesh

[Rajanikanth Puttabuddi]

Basker, apart from this cop-story from 300k riders, the funniest incident was some villagers woke up a sleeping chidu and told him
that he has a bomb behind his cycle ( His tail lamp never goes off - it always blinks ). Heard from him that he was thoroughly checked
To know what happened later we will have to wait for his blog.

rk

[anilk...@gmail.com]

Nagaraj,

Congratulations on completing the 300 kms (even though it was 370 kms...).

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Subject: Re: [BBC] 300 km brevet

[Uday]

Congrats Manjula, on completing the 300K. 

I was expecting you at the 600K start line. May be next time.

[Manjula Sridhar]

Anil, Kishan,RK, Nalla, all, Thanks.

Nalla, Good catch it was 1AM (Looks like I am still suffering from sleep deprivation).

Bhasker, :-), Yogesh, good to hear that. We definitely need more women on the circuit.

Uday, originally I had planned to 600, but intermittent flu over last week made me change my mind.

I have only 600 Pending in the series now and I am attempting this next month. 

regards,

Manjula.

[Nalla P Konar]

Thanks manjula for the clarification.. actually both 1am and 1pm are odd hours for a lady cyclist :)

As Bhasker said, wow.. cops were doing their duty.. and senior cop that too was present :)

Best of luck for the 600 FEmale, have a great one.

Rgds,
Nalla.
Rider of Cleated Warriors - Bangalore Bicycle racing team
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[mudit]

congrats to all 300k riders. it was really an awesome exp,  specially the night ride, loved it :)

-mudit

[anilk...@gmail.com]

Parag,

You did 300k right, congratulations to you, were just recovering from fever?

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Subject: [BBC] Re: 300 km brevet

[Opendro]

I think the same cops asked us to go back. We were stopping about 8 km
away from Chitradurga in post midnight and cops on the other side
flashed lights on us from the other side of the road and asking us to
cross and come. Vinay crossed and had some chat. They told him that we
should go and sleep, not riding in the night.

On Jun 25, 11:08 am, Manjula Sridhar <manjula.srid...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> All,
>
> For some reason there seems to discrimination against brevets starting with
> odd numbers :-). No threads on that, 200, 400, 600 and 1000 are discussed
> in glory.
>
> So here it is. 10 of us started at 10 PM on Saturday and I think most of us
> made it (unless I get updates now).
>
> It was needlessly difficult as far as 300 KM distances go as it started at
> 10 PM. So sleep deprivation and heat made it very difficult in the last
> stretch. Most of us rode together until first control and finished 200KM
> around 9 PM (11 hours) however next 100 took almost 7-8 hours.
>
> Few memorable moments :
>

>    - A police car with some senior cops in them stopped me around 1 PM

>    and inquired what the hell was I doing at such "Odd" hours alone. I told
>    them I wasn't alone and in fact was riding with few folks until they
>    stopped. Of course I explained what brevet is and they had
>    very skeptical looks :-).

>    - Chiddu,opendro, deepak (1000K heroes) at different point overtook me

>    very cheerfully and I felt like jumping off the next fly-over that was
>    negotiating at 2KM/hour. But seriously hats off to them.

>    - Reaching CCD for a great crowd and having all sorts of food.

[Brajesh Kushwaha]

It was a good experience. Frankly speaking the nite-out and the sunny return testing me out :)
Was lucky to ride back with Deepak and Opendro from neelmangla.

-Brajesh

[Uday]

Brajesh,

Congrats on completing the 300K. 

I saw your name on the 600K and was hoping you to be there.

+Uday

[vageesh]

hi
   I have read manjula will be attempting 600 next month.. so when is the next brevet ?? same route??? please share a link ...
thanks in advance...

Vageesh

[Manjula Sridhar]

Vageesh,

Check IISC randonneurs webpage (google);

It is same route as Feb 2012 (tristate).

Regards,
Manjula

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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:46:39 +0530

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Subject: Re: [BBC] Re: 300 km brevet

[Brajesh Kushwaha]

Uday,
Had planned but the scary reports of cross-winds got to me. Maybe next time.
Great effort on going for 1000km. Seriously needs a LOT of guts.

-Brajesh

[Shankar Shastry]

Congrats Manjula. You looked like you were riding pretty strong when we met you. I guess modesty is the best policy? ;) Its nice that most of you rode together atleast in the beginning. Good luck with the 600!

@Nagaraj : Phenomenal speed, with or without that distance!

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[S Chidambaran]

Both of you are wrong. 1 is not an odd number.

[deepakvrao]

It's not?

[deepakvrao]

Congrats Manjula. Great ride.

On Jun 25, 11:08 am, Manjula Sridhar <manjula.srid...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> All,
>
> For some reason there seems to discrimination against brevets starting with
> odd numbers :-). No threads on that, 200, 400, 600 and 1000 are discussed
> in glory.
>
> So here it is. 10 of us started at 10 PM on Saturday and I think most of us
> made it (unless I get updates now).
>
> It was needlessly difficult as far as 300 KM distances go as it started at
> 10 PM. So sleep deprivation and heat made it very difficult in the last
> stretch. Most of us rode together until first control and finished 200KM
> around 9 PM (11 hours) however next 100 took almost 7-8 hours.
>
> Few memorable moments :
>

>    - A police car with some senior cops in them stopped me around 1 PM

>    and inquired what the hell was I doing at such "Odd" hours alone. I told
>    them I wasn't alone and in fact was riding with few folks until they
>    stopped. Of course I explained what brevet is and they had
>    very skeptical looks :-).

>    - Chiddu,opendro, deepak (1000K heroes) at different point overtook me

>    very cheerfully and I felt like jumping off the next fly-over that was
>    negotiating at 2KM/hour. But seriously hats off to them.

>    - Reaching CCD for a great crowd and having all sorts of food.

[S o h a n]

Very well done and hearty congratulations on 300K and wishing you all the best for your upcoming 600K ride

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Manjula Sridhar <manjula...@gmail.com> wrote:

All,

For some reason there seems to discrimination against brevets starting with odd numbers :-). No threads on that, 200, 400, 600 and 1000 are discussed in glory.

So here it is. 10 of us started at 10 PM on Saturday and I think most of us made it (unless I get updates now).

It was needlessly difficult as far as 300 KM distances go as it started at 10 PM. So sleep deprivation and heat made it very difficult in the last stretch. Most of us rode together until first control and finished 200KM around 9 PM (11 hours) however next 100 took almost 7-8 hours.

Few memorable moments :

• A police car with some senior cops in them stopped me around 1 PM and inquired what the hell was I doing at such "Odd" hours alone. I told them I wasn't alone and in fact was riding with few folks until they stopped. Of course I explained what brevet is and they had very skeptical looks :-).

• Chiddu,opendro, deepak (1000K heroes) at different point overtook me very cheerfully and I felt like jumping off the next fly-over that was negotiating at 2KM/hour. But seriously hats off to them.

• Reaching CCD for a great crowd and having all sorts of food.

Finally thanks to Parag who rallied us through-out the night. 

Others 300 KM please update how yours went.

Regards,

Manjula.

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[Karthick Gururaj]

A measure of new found respect for Chiddu that a counter came after a
whole day? :)

Congrats to Manjula and the other 300km brevet riders!

And 1 is an odd number. But Manjula said: "For some reason there seems
to discrimination against brevets starting with odd numbers". 1000km
starts with an odd number.

- Karthick

[Manjula Sridhar]

Chiddu,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_(number) 

1 is an odd number right. 

Karthik,

Yes I was wrong about 1000 starting with odd numbers; But 1000 itself not an odd number. so I am still somewhat ok :-).

Sohan, Deepak, thanks.

Nalla, a 1 pm/am is odd time for lady cyclist huh ? Thank got I am just a woman not a lady ! What about lords ? Is it odd for them too ? :-).

-manjula.

[Shankar Shastry]

In Manjula's defense, she was counting hundreds and 10 is an even number ;). Hah.

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[S Chidambaran]

I hang my head in shame. I was confused between odd and prime numbers. So maybe doing 1000k does have an effect on you.

[Manjula Sridhar]

Chiddu,

You are a prime example of odd effects of long distance cycling. Even this too shall pass and the effects will even out :-).

MR CA shankar, thank you.

Nalla :-).

- manjula

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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:02:31 +0530

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