Randonneuring is long-distance unsupported endurance cycling. This style of riding is non-competitive in nature, and self-sufficiency is paramount. When riders participate in randonneuring events, they are part of a long tradition that goes back to the beginning of the sport of cycling in France and Italy. Friendly camaraderie, not competition, is the hallmark of randonneuring. For more information about randonneuring in the US, check out rusa.org
Registration for, and participation in, any and all events held by Ohio Randonneurs or RUSA requires an active RUSA membership and membership number. Temporary or expired membership numbers up to the date of the event will NOT work and results CANNOT be backdated. Please consider renewing or beginning RUSA membership well in advance of calendared events to avoid completing events with no RUSA or ACP credit and tracking. Join here.
You must update your Ohio Randonneurs membership for 2024 before you register for any events. Go to "Club" tab under logo > Update/Renew Membership and follow the instructions. Further details here.
Hello All! RUSA has approved our 2024 Calendar, and it is officially live! We have a ton of events in store for the next year with stuff for everyone. We have you covered if you want to enjoy a scenic pop or tackle 27,000ft of climbing.
First up, we will have our opening weekend out of Xenia, Ohio, with a concurrent 100/200. With Ohio, this could be lovely, or it could be bitterly cold like last year.
Then, we will have our ACP Series running from April through June and the Flèche ending at Chateau Buzzee. We will be dusting off some of the routes that haven't been used in a while for the Series. The 200/300 will be out of the Springfield, Ohio, area, and the 400/600 will be out of Macedonia. I need to do some legwork this winter to ensure the starting locations and controls are current. For anyone put off by last year's climbing, I can't promise flat, but they are flat compared to 2023!
New this year, we will have two Rouleur series!
A Columbus area series hosted by Dave Buzzee runs April-June. Routes TBD.
Additionally, a North East Ohio series hosted by Lynn Clark and Elly Winer runs from June to August.
Both Rouleur Series will converge with a Dart Populaire ending in Mt Vernon on July 27th.
Finally, we will return to Zanesville for another running of the 8k600k. While difficult, this ride ended up being incredibly scenic and will be run again in 2024 by request.
Between these and the events put on by our neighboring region, there is no lack of events to ride in 2024. Ensure your RUSA membership is current, and I'll see everyone in March! If you are looking for an extrinsic motivator in the short term, I highly recommend you check out Coffeeneuring (https://chasingmailboxes.com/2023/09/24/coffeeneuring-challenge-2023-lucky-13), which just started up.
Josh
This permits us to go mostly paperless.
If electing to use electronic proof of passage, you will need to upload your ride to a publicly available site (e.g., strava, ridewithgps). Please ensure your ride is set to 'public' or similar availability.
After the ride, you will get an email with a link to a page where you should fill in your finish time and provide a link to your uploaded ride (e.g., https://www.strava.com/activities/1234 or https://ridewithgps.com/trips/1234). Please do so as soon as you can so that final results may be submitted to RUSA.
You can even leave public comments on the ride from that same form.
In anticipation of potential GPS file corruption, it is recommended that you use a secondary (or even tertiary) documentation such as timestamped photos at each control and/or a completed brevet card.