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Any Randonneurs here? (lemmy.ca)

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I love recreational cycling 100km or so at a time, but I'm completely fascinated with Randonneuring!

Has anyone completed a brevet of any length? Please share your experience going into it, and how the event ended up for you :)

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[–] AchtungDrempels 2 points 1 year ago

I don't understand how they do it. I came across a brevet last year in france, 'le 1000 du sud', where they rode 1000 km and 20000 m in elevation in four days. That was basically what i was doing in two and a half weeks, and it felt like i was cycling a lot, haha. I met the first two people in a pizzeria when i was having dinner and over the next day a whole load of them rode towards me. Funnily, the same day on the same mountain, there was also a bunch of people riding the 'torino nice rally', but they were going my direction.

I can't really comprehend it. I imagine it must be a lot of suffering.