audax super randonneur

I just like cycling

I have been bicycle touring in Europe and the US the past few years. Ultra distance racing is new for me, enthusiastic about it though! I’ll be participating the RATN and the Round Denmark Bike Race. My goal for the RATN is to finish within the given time. You might be looking at your Lantern Rouge though.

Transcontinental 2015 was my first ultra distance race, did OK, was doing well in the Trans Am in 2018 before I was run over by a truck! Looking forward to getting back to the racing with some friends from the UK.

I started cycling when I was 12 years old, as training for speedskating. The first years I cycled with my skating club or my family. A few years later I joined a cycling club for 2 years and tried some road races. Soon I found out that this was not really something for me, as I didn't like the chaos of riding in a peloton. I continued with cycling with friends, especially with my best friend Wendy. Together we rode a lot of cyclo's in the Netherlands. In 2016 we had our biggest cycling adventure so far, cycling up the Mont Ventoux 3 times on 1 day with 'Klimmen tegen MS'.

After following the Transcontinal race in 2016 we both got interested in bikepacking. A lot of dotwachting followed and this year we made our first small bikepacking trips! I made a 4 day trip in the Netherlands and Belgium and together we cycled coast 2 coast in England. I also cycled my first BRM, 200km. Now we're ready for our first race! I'm really looking forward to this new challenge! It will be an awesome adventure!

As everybody can see I am wearing a Rapha Brevet Jersey. With it I should be able to do something bigger than your typical afternoon ride. 😉
To be honest, I actually wanted to ride Paris Brest Paris in 2019. But long distances without aerobars I can not imagine anymore. So I am here and looking forward to the more varied route. I also have more references to the Netherlands than to France, as my grandfather comes from the Netherlands.

Love to ride bicycles, did some traveling on the bike, and will try this time for an adventure on a bike packing race. It is something new and i am very curious

My name is Ed Bos and was born in February 1952 (Amsterdam).  I think I am the senior of the riders, not fast anymore but eagerly to finish in a nice senior timelimit.
I live with my partner in Delft and started biking again somewhere in 2016/2017.
Biking is something out of my past, started racing at my 16th, quit racing later on and switched to bikepacking around Europe.
For lots of reasons I stopped biking the long rides, started karate,swimming, running and did some quarter and half triathlons
Somewhere in my end twenties I stopped this all, but …….. As said started a couple of years ago with my first love: Biking.
Looking forward now for participating the RATN!

Was following some events for a while, but once I did couple of them on my own (HardCro and NorthCape4000 - both in 2018), got hooked for life in this sightseeing trips that you call ultra distance cycling races. So, now I am getting ready for the flats and the winds in the Netherlands

No speed to see here, just a heavily loaded dude who just loves the ultra endurance racing family. Will the red mist take over or shall I just enjoy seeing this country in daylight, we shall see. Will be riding to and from the event from England.

In a recent personality check at work I was : friendly and social, resourceful, positive,communicative...that was the good part of course but it should be sufficiant to get me trough this adventure 🙂 along with a good preparation and some nice weather if possible.
As a cyclist I started as a mountain biker. This resulted in marathon mountain biking which made me participate a lot of events througout Europe like the Transalp for example. The best one was the TransBelgium mtb in 2012 were I discovered the world of bikepacking/ultra riding and also the adventure feel of being out on the road all day. So now I'm back hoping to get that feeling again!

I've been riding bikes for over 40 years, but never raced until last year, when I entered and finished the inaugural Race Around the Netherlands. I've ridden two Super Randonneur series, and I first got the distance bug (after being a fixed gear cycle commuter in London) whilst living in Sheffield, although I did a fair bit of cycle camping before that. I once worked and lived in Nijmegen, right on the race route...

I live Hebden Bridge right now, although I spend a lot of time in Leeds and Manchester.

Riding since 2017 // Dready on bike // For Cake and Glory // looking forward to a great adventure with Marc who is one of my best bike buddies // looking forward to our ride around the Netherlands and meeting like-minded people

Ramping up to an Arch to Arc triathlon (London to Paris) in 2020.

As an experienced ultrarunner and long distance hiker I'm more of a pedestrian than a cyclist. Most of my life my bikes were used to take me to the next icecream shop, not for serious riding.
In 2018 I decided to try something new. With only a few shorter rides under my belt I went all the way from Bonn/ Germany across the Alps down to Nice/ France in completely selfsupported bikepacker style. With a riding time of 54 hours I thought "Well, that was fun! What's next?".
The RaTN will be my first official bike race. Due to my background as an adventurer I'm not much of a racer. But that doesn't mean I'm not used to kick myself to go long and fast.

I have been competing in Adventure racing for a number of years. This year i decided to try a different discipline; "endurance cycling" and so this is my first year and my main 1st event.
Bought a new gravel bike in order to train and attend events

Fell in love with bikes at 7 y.o. when I received my first one. After I moved to Denmark I started to cycle longer distances. Did some bike touring in Norway, Sweden and Germany no longer than 1000 km though.
It's a nice feeling of freedom when you wake up in the morning and you have a blank page in front of you.

Bought my first road bike in 2014. Went for a bike tour in 2017 in Australia, Thailand and Europe on the Salsa Fargo.

I did the French Divide in 2018 and finished 18th. Also on the Salsa Fargo.

My endurance bike is the Canyon Endurace I'll be using during the RatN 2019. The compass 35mm tires will provide some nice comfort. See you'll say the start.

My name is Wendy, I am from The Netherlands. I got my first roadbike when I was 7 years old. I cycled a lot with my dad and my brother. The last 6 years after I learned to walk again and an ankle operation I became more active in cycling. I started to ride longer distances and made a lot of cycling friends. Together with Aukje I started to get more interest in bikepacking and endurance racing.

Last summer I rode my bike to the Mosel River, 700km in 6 days. This was my first step into bikepacking and I had heaps of fun. End of September I rode coast2coast with Aukje. 200km headwinds, hopefully that will be a bit better when we race in May. The Race Around The Netherlands will be my first race and a new big challenge for me. My biggest challenge so far was becoming Cinglé du Ventoux for Klimmen tegen MS.

The 2nd day of the race will be my Birthday