Kiwi Brevet

Zoom · *by **Zoom** on Wed 17/Feb/10 12:44pm*

Finally finished my write up. It is quite long and has really been written so I can remember the good and the bad in the future

http://charlotteireland.blogspot.com/

RHR_Rob · *by **RHR_Rob** on Wed 17/Feb/10 3:26pm*

I feel like a real 'armchair' cyclist reading about this.......

sifter · *by **sifter** on Wed 17/Feb/10 3:46pm*

Zoom wrote:Finally finished my write up. It is quite long and has really been written so I can remember the good and the bad in the future

http://charlotteireland.blogspot.com/

Primo! I'm forgive me for copying my facebook comment all over the place... :blush:

Charlotte - what an incredible story! As I've said, I thought about your nightmare start (without knowing how easily you'd got your tyre sorted) and wondered how I'd have coped with it. I reckon you (and all of the Brevet finishers) should be pretty damn proud. BTW - something I saw which really made the Brevet worthwhile for me, was "Charlotte Ireland and Jeff Lyall are now friends", and knowing that was in more than just the Facebook-friend-sense. Nothing quite like the bond built over sharing 200km days together! Respect

sifter · *by **sifter** on Wed 17/Feb/10 5:03pm*

Day 5 finally.

http://sifter-writes-bikes.blogspot.com ... day-5.html

E Dogg Capizzle · *by **E Dogg Capizzle** on Wed 17/Feb/10 5:43pm*

Terrific stuff!

Oli · *by **Oli** on Wed 17/Feb/10 6:24pm*

sifter wrote:Day 5 finally.

http://sifter-writes-bikes.blogspot.com ... day-5.html

Incredible. Thanks bro.

dented · *by **dented** on Wed 17/Feb/10 9:13pm*

Hey I have a question for the Breveteers.

It arises as I have on a few occasions been involved with the Dunlop Targa. Kind of completely different, but maybe a bit the same too. The thing is, what happens is after you have been swanning around for a week, breezing through towns like a celebrity, with friends and well-wishers following your progress online, and pretty much completely swept up in the event from dawn to dusk (and even beyond), it gets to the end, and BANG, its all over, you go home, you go to work, you go back to reality, and for almost everyone I know (service crew included), you spend about a week right down in the doldrums. There is even a term that describes it; "Targa Blues".

Anyone get a case of the "Brevet Blues"?

sifter · *by **sifter** on Wed 17/Feb/10 9:20pm*

dented wrote:Hey I have a question for the Breveteers.

It arises as I have on a few occasions been involved with the Dunlop Targa. Kind of completely different, but maybe a bit the same too. The thing is, what happens is after you have been swanning around for a week, breezing through towns like a celebrity, with friends and well-wishers following your progress online, and pretty much completely swept up in the event from dawn to dusk (and even beyond), it gets to the end, and BANG, its all over, you go home, you go to work, you go back to reality, and for almost everyone I know (service crew included), you spend about a week right down in the doldrums. There is even a term that describes it; "Targa Blues".

Anyone get a case of the "Brevet Blues"?

I was expecting them, but got the opposite. I have a sense of relief that it's over...!

thelivo · *by **thelivo** on Wed 17/Feb/10 9:43pm*

dented wrote:Hey I have a question for the Breveteers.

It arises as I have on a few occasions been involved with the Dunlop Targa. Kind of completely different, but maybe a bit the same too. The thing is, what happens is after you have been swanning around for a week, breezing through towns like a celebrity, with friends and well-wishers following your progress online, and pretty much completely swept up in the event from dawn to dusk (and even beyond), it gets to the end, and BANG, its all over, you go home, you go to work, you go back to reality, and for almost everyone I know (service crew included), you spend about a week right down in the doldrums. There is even a term that describes it; "Targa Blues".

Anyone get a case of the "Brevet Blues"?

I think its the same any time you get over a big goal - if you don't have another goal already in your head it can be a real downer. A guy i know did Marathon des sables - and the depression after that was pretty epic.

mrpotatohead · *by **mrpotatohead** on Wed 17/Feb/10 9:49pm*

Strange! All I felt like doing the next day was getting back on the bike! Of course I never actually did.. did feel a bit flat after all the activity though.

Simonk · *by **Simonk** on Wed 17/Feb/10 10:00pm*

I had a bit of post-event depression after the Great Divide Race (and used to get it after Nationals or Worlds) but not this time. Have been loving reading all the stories; also super busy at work and home, so no time to let the rolling stone gather moss. Did feel the need to 'decompress' for a couple of days after finishing - city life is so busy, even when you are still and it's happening all around you. Reminds me of the only bit of poetry I remember from school.

The world is too much with us
Late and soon
Getting and spending
We lay waste our powers
There is little we see in nature that is ours.

(apologies to Wordsworth if I butchered that)

jo · *by jo on Wed 17/Feb/10 10:02pm*

Simonk wrote: Maybe run the Kiwi Brevet every second year and alternate with a shorter regional brevet (somewhere like Taranaki heartland or Central Otago).

What did you consider the major time factor in organising this one Simon? :eh:

Private land permissions?

Simonk · *by **Simonk** on Wed 17/Feb/10 10:22pm*

Organising the SPOTs, probably (could have been done much easier). Followed by course design and cue-sheets (a one-off), then answering general questions and clarifying/developing the rules. The private land permission created some stress around trying to get every single rider a SPOT, but the permission itself was fairly straight-forward. Most of it should be easier the second time.

Paul did a lot of work keeping the blog running in my absence and sorting the call-ins (very nice to have, but not essential).

Course design could be a lot easier if you were less fussy about everyone taking the exact same route into and out of towns (which revolved around avoiding busy highways).

sifter · *by **sifter** on Thu 18/Feb/10 8:21am*

sifter wrote:
dented wrote:Hey I have a question for the Breveteers.

It arises as I have on a few occasions been involved with the Dunlop Targa. Kind of completely different, but maybe a bit the same too. The thing is, what happens is after you have been swanning around for a week, breezing through towns like a celebrity, with friends and well-wishers following your progress online, and pretty much completely swept up in the event from dawn to dusk (and even beyond), it gets to the end, and BANG, its all over, you go home, you go to work, you go back to reality, and for almost everyone I know (service crew included), you spend about a week right down in the doldrums. There is even a term that describes it; "Targa Blues".

Anyone get a case of the "Brevet Blues"?

I was expecting them, but got the opposite. I have a sense of relief that it's over...!

That said, I did experience a bit of culture shock when I got home.

Afrer something like74 hours on the bike, with most of this in my own little world, dealing with so many people again was almost freaky...

DogsBollocks · *by **DogsBollocks** on Thu 18/Feb/10 8:46am*

dented wrote:Hey I have a question for the Breveteers.

It arises as I have on a few occasions been involved with the Dunlop Targa. Kind of completely different, but maybe a bit the same too. The thing is, what happens is after you have been swanning around for a week, breezing through towns like a celebrity, with friends and well-wishers following your progress online, and pretty much completely swept up in the event from dawn to dusk (and even beyond), it gets to the end, and BANG, its all over, you go home, you go to work, you go back to reality, and for almost everyone I know (service crew included), you spend about a week right down in the doldrums. There is even a term that describes it; "Targa Blues".

Anyone get a case of the "Brevet Blues"?

Reminds me of a story about Craig Green after the AB's won the 1987 World Cup. They won the cup on Saturday arvo, got on the large that night, he flew back to Ch-Ch on Sunday and was nailing down a roof in the rain and cold in Belfast at 7.30am on the Monday morning.

Wasn't too happy so signed with an Italian club and left the country as soon as he could !

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