Tom Droege's SR 600k Ride Report
Tom Droege – RUSA #7794
Start time: Saturday June 14, 2014 – 4:00 am
Finish time: Monday June 16, 2014 – 1:52 am
Ride report for the Southern Appalachian SR600 – a Super Randonnée 600km permanent.
Tom Droege – RUSA #7794
Start time: Saturday June 14, 2014 – 4:00 am
Finish time: Monday June 16, 2014 – 1:52 am
Ride report for the Southern Appalachian SR600 – a Super Randonnée 600km permanent.
Earlier this year, I think it was April, Terry Payne asked me if I wanted to do a Super 600 down in the Blue Ridge Mountains with him in September. Recklessly I replied “WooHoo, let’s do it!” A Super 600 is a 600 km brevet with a minimum of 10,000 meters of climbing and you are allowed 50 hours instead of the usual 40 hours to complete it. Kathy Brouse and Arthur Reinstein did a Super 600 in Oregon earlier this summer. Kathy told me about her experience. She said it was the hardest thing she had ever done and that it made the Van Isle 1200 she had just completed a few weeks earlier, se