{"id":19823,"date":"2019-12-23T06:22:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T06:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/?page_id=19823"},"modified":"2019-12-23T06:22:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T06:22:40","slug":"rudolph-does-dirt-road-8-december-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/?page_id=19823","title":{"rendered":"Rudolph Does Dirt \/ Road – 8 December 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our fourth annual Audax FNQ Christmas ride had something for everyone.\u00a0 Well, at least a road and<\/strong> a dirt option.\u00a0 The lure of a bar-b-que brekky afterwards at the pub brought everyone to Tolga for a not-so-early kick-off on a reasonably warm FNQ summer’s morning.\u00a0 Roughly 130 riders headed off into the hills, some even in the right direction, and then found their way back to the pub in time for brekky and associated refreshments.<\/p>\n

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The result was a breath-taking piece of Strava art, with FNQ Audax riders creating their very own topographical bauble chart.\u00a0 Check out the live version.<\/a>\u00a0 Hint – click on the box to the left of “athletes” to select all riders, then watch from 6.26.00 (the slide on the left).\u00a0 Vary the speed to about 470x (on the top right – ) to see how Rudolph riders lit up the Tablelands.\u00a0 (Thanks Keith).<\/p>\n

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Thanks to all of our volunteers – Kim and Karen (Control 1), Kathy and Mikey (Control 2), Frankie (on-road guidance and check-in) and Ivor (bar-b-que chef extraordinaire).\u00a0 As always, an FNQ Audax ride needs many hands on board to make it work.\u00a0 Thanks team.<\/p>\n

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The experience has left some locals feeling the need to wax lyrical – with Lloyd creating a poetic ride report (below) and Jimmy assembling\u00a0another spectacular video of the ride.\u00a0 (And even better – saving this RO from the task).\u00a0 Many thanks to Lloyd and Jimmy for their work.<\/p>\n