Opendro's World

First of all, a big "thank you" to the Bangalore Brevet team. They have made me super randonneur . After finishing the 200 Km in January, 300 Km in February, 400 Km in March on pedal, I was skeptical of the 600 Km in April - partly because of the distance and partly because of the heat that peaks around this time in Tamil Nadu. I had not done any special training for all my previous rides. Nevertheless, I had lately kept myself fit in some or other way - be it the small distance of cycling to office everyday or tennis on the weekends whenever possible or running around the lake in Lalbagh botanical garden. I wish I was still going to roller skating classes or the football matches that my office colleagues play every weekend. Or I wish it was the Bangalore Ultra marathon season. Nothing is happening. Only 10 more days to go - countdown to the 15th of April - Bangalore Brevets 600 Km . I need to work up a bit. My best bet was run - run around the Lalbagh lake. Usually 45 m...

Even since I restarted my cycling in 2010, I would have done roughly four rides of 100 Km plus, two 200 Km plus, two 300 Km plus and I just added 400 Km plus to my list. All the rides are within 24 hours. Thanks to BBC ( http://groups.google.co.in/group/Bangalore-bikers ) which is the only reason why I get such opportunities. Bangalore Brevets I restarted my cycling with my office colleage Chirag in late 2009. I started with a mere office commute and quarterly weekend rides of hardly 50Km. I accidentally bought a Trek 4300 MTB again through Chirag. I had to use the bike now for some serious cycling. BBC gave me the right platform to kickstart that. Though I started my longer distance cycling with BBC, it is the Bangalore Brevets ( http://www.bangalorebrevets.in/TheRoute.htm ), which is the real challenging one, because here we are given a fixed time and the clock never stops. The 400 Km ride I did my 300 Km plus Brevet ride on Feb 12, 2011. It was time to test 400 for me as the ...