[Leica] IMG: yesterday's brevet, or 200 km on the bike

[Don Dory]

Your time would have allowed time for a tattoo....

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 2:50 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> Yesterday, I participated in a 200 km brevet, organised by a local cycling
> club. The route is here:
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> https://www.openrunner.com/r/9304251?fbclid=IwAR0U5RYln7CnKY1WKGpH_f409pWAnSjILfWHOvaeLJ2mKRE8TO6caX0-48Y
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> A brevet is a type of bicycle race that is not a race. It does not matter
> who comes first. You get a medal as long as you check in at the checkpoints
> within the defined time windows, and you have to complete the ride within
> the maximum time, which for a 200 km ride is 13.5 hours. There are other
> rules; for example, you are not allowed to receive any assistance along the
> route except from other participants (so no spouse following you in a car
> with tools and refreshments). The rules of the sport are regulated
> world-wide by the mother club in Paris, where this flavour of cycling was
> defined more than 100 years ago.
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> Usually, a route sheet (the brevet) is handed out before the ride, and you
> are expected to have it stamped in the villages that are defined as
> checkpoints (usually at a gas station or convenience store). But in these
> Covid times, we were supposed to use selfies instead, so there are a couple
> of cheesy photos of me in the gallery. The first 100 km of the ride were
> quite hard because the terrain was hilly—but also pretty. The second 100 km
> were easier because it was flat.
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> I took a few pics along the way besides the required selfies:
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> https://www.greatpix.eu/Brevet-200-km-Alicante-Sur-2021/
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> Alicante, Spain
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