End of 2012 Brevet Season

Last weekend was the last brevet events of the season and 2012 Brevet season is now officially over. Brevet season is from January to October. This is my third year of brevet riding and this year has been the busiest brevet year so far. I have accumulated 2,500 km of official finish this year and DNF three events. 

This year is also the first that I have completed a series of 200, 300, 400 and 600 km brevets in a year and I'm entitled to the Super Randonneur special medal. I will request for the medal as soon as the application starts.

Looking forward for another busy 2013 season and looks like there couple of new things next year, namely:

1. New Audax Club in Tokyo (name is still undecided and branched out of Aoba Velo Club)

2. Super Randonnee 600 évent (this is a new brevet category that are mountainous 600 kilometres with over 10,000 meters of elevation gain). 

One goal next year is to try Super Randonnee 600 and need to think of my off-season (winter) brevet training plans. 

BRM	Elapsed Time	Moving Time	Total Climb	Comment
BRM421 Shizuoka 400 Fuji	23:05	20:09	4,226m	No sleep
BRM512 Aoba 200 Kazahari	DNF	-	-	Mechanical Trouble: Right shifter lever broken at 64 km.
BRM515 Aoba 200 Kazahari	11:32	9:43	2,018m	-
BRM 519 NishiTokyo 300 Fuji	16:36	14:02	2,633m	Evening Start
BRM 526 Shizuoka 600 Norikura	37:02	30:02	7,050m	Two hours of sleep & 40 minutes loss time
BRM 602 Aoba 600 HiekawaToge	DNF	-	-	Over slept
BRM 908 Aoba 600 Utsukushigahara	37:59	<30:00?	6,400m?	-Four hours of night rest/sleep. Lost some GPS data due device not able to continuously log data.
BRM 916 Kanagawa 400 Yatsugatake	26:31	21:20	5,547m	Barely slept, twice. One of the toughest course.
BRM 1006 Aoba 600 Kanto	DNF	-	-	Sick...