Peak Audax Super Permanents

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Super Randonneur: An SR series consists of 4 Brevet Randonneur rides, all completed within the same Audax UK season: a 200km, 300km, 400km and 600km. You can now achieve an SR with Perms run from the Peak Audax area as an extension of the Wigley Perms series of rides.

For your 200 there is already a good choice of rides, all starting from Dean Row (between Stockport and Wilmslow) and heading out on the Cheshire Plains into Wales or Shropshore. Although they are not absolutely flat, there are very few big climbs and a fixed gear machine should tackle these fairly comfortably. Derailleurs would be even better (but that's just a personal opinion!)

Try the Eccleshall 200, Eureka 200 , Holt 200 , Mere 200 or Newport 200 . For a 200 with a lot more climbing, there is the Dark & White Peak Grimpeur 200 from Marple into the Peak District.

A new ride, as an extension of the Eccleshall 200, is the Full Monty 300. Like the 200, this starts from Dean Row with a first control at Helsby after the undulating ride over the Delamere Forest region. After that it's fairly flat to Gobowen and Montgomery, past the spectacular scenery around Breidden Hill. Return to the start via Wem and Eccleshall.

The Llanfair 400 might well be easier to ride than pronounce. Starting from Poynton (south of Stockport, with a large car park used fairly regularly for 24 hour events), this is an out and back ride to Holyhead, although we do vary the outward and return journeys just to make things more interesting. It's a fairly flat ride as the route keeps to the northern coatal region while managing to avoid the A55 Expressway. It's not entirely flat, with climbs of Halkyn Mountain and Sychnant Pass just to spce things up a touch.

To complete the series is To Holland Back 600 starting from either Poynton or Delph in Saddleworth. This ride features a Pennine Crossing, a trip over the Humber Bridge, across Lincolnshire and Holland Fen to Spalding, and a return via Wem.

Montgomery 300

Llanfair 400

Holland 600

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