Randonneur Round the Year (RRtY) Award By Grant Huggins, RRtY Secretary Welcome to another Randonneur Round the Year Award – the prize for riding at least one 200km (or longer) Audax ride at BR/BRM pace per month for 12 consecutive calendar months. It can be started at any time, and riders can have more than one RRtY series running concurrently, starting in the same or different calendar months. This consolidation report of the last two years of RRtY series additions and updates brings the received claims up to the start of the validation
223 new Randonneur Round the Year (since Arrivée Winter/ Spring 2018) Mark Agar Paul Alinejad Margaret Allison Will Armitage Tim Arnold Christopher Ashford Roy Ashman Edwin Bartlett David Baston Les Bauchop Phil Beed 2 Charlie Beresford Dean Bicknell David Bishop Paul Bolton Gary Bray Vanessa Bridge 2 Keat Brigham Clive Brooker Andy Bruce Julie Bullen Paul Bullen Tim Burdon Paul Burnip Asif Choglay Nick Cleaton Stuart Clitherow Phil Collard Laura Collett Claire Cooper Peter Crawley Kate Culleton Matthew Cunningham
suspension period due to Covid-19. The last two years have seen more records broken for RRtY claims. Since Arrivée Winter/Spring edition 139 we have 223 new names (members claiming their first, in some cases multiple series) and 152 who have completed one or more additional series, in a total of 605 validated series. This brings the total number of award holders to 952. For the full roll of honour see https:// audax.uk/results/rrty-roll-ofhonour/ where there is also a
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link to the claim form. The validation is based on individual rider results lists, although “special adjustments” are permitted. For example, by default a ride spanning more than one month is taken as belonging to the start date month, but can be claimed by request for the finish month as long as at least 200km at BR pace has been completed in that month. LEL 2017 triggered that adjustment with 23 members requesting LEL to be counted for August. Of course, we can’t
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Mark Kowalski Adrian Lai Richard Lake Grace Lambert-Smith David Lane Spenser Lane Gary Laver Nigel Leech Clare Liley Carl Lister Peter Lockey Peter Loveridge Ron Low James Ludlow Paul Mabley Daniel Mahler Andy Martin Robert McCready Jake McCreedy-Evans Sara McLoughlin Helen Millier Richard Mitchell Jane Moore Allen Morgan Julian Morgan Keith Mount Geoffrey Mowatt Kelly Murphy Jo Nevin Mark Nicholson Denise Noha Colin Norcup Debbie Norcup Jonathan Nunney Simon O’Gorman James O’Neill Richard O’Sullivan Tony Oakley
escape the impact Covid-19 has had on Audax and ride validation. I hope that by the time you read this report we will once again be riding at least 200km validated rides and beginning to accumulate months to your next or first RRtY series award. To view latest news about the RRtY validation resumption and rules see this page https://audax.uk/ awards-pages/randonneurround-the-year/rrty-andcovid-19/
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Clare Parkinson Jamie Pearson Sarah Perkins Ian Perry Andrew Phillips Hugo Pile Antony Pollard Nic Pow Julian Pring Julian Prokaza Graeme Provan Sharon Puleston Tim Puleston Ian Pullen Matthew Radford Edwin Raj Jonathan Reed Kevin Reed James Rees Chris Regan Cheryl Reid John Reynolds Phil Richards Mark Richardson Fiona Ridley Jocelyn Ridley Marcia Roberts Craig Robertson Neil Robinson Andrea Rodgers Peter Rogan Jeff Rowell John Rye Mark Sadler Richard Sanderson Moritz Schick Stephen Scott Dave Sharpe
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