NC Mondial Awardees

Several days after my Memorial Day rescue of my (recently restarted) R-series, I realized that the kilometers credited for that ride put me over 50-thousand credited kilometers for all RUSA events.  Although 50-thousand is 10-thousand more than the Mondial, surpassing 50K-kms got me to thinking about the entire North Carolina Mondial Awardee peloton.

I don't have much to type, except maybe a comment or two for some of the 16 North Carolina residents plus the 3 Tidewater randonneurs.  [Tidewater RBA Keith used to do almost all his brevet riding at the Raleigh Region brevets, before he created the Tidewater Region.  Ron has done a fair number of Raleigh brevets; even Jacob, too.  Additionally, as I understand it, many of the Tidewater area Permanents have more distance in North Carolina than they do in Virginia, so most of the Tidewater randonneurs are likely spending more time in North Carolina than in Virginia on many or most of their rides.]

 
First North Carolinian to Mondial?  Mike Dayton, of course, late in 2010.  Certainly every NC rando, perhaps most RUSA randos wherever they live, and many randonneurs from around the globe know Mike.  So many firsts in NC rando history.  Although I personally have not seen Mike on the bike since Feb-20-2016, I know that he has done some "get back in the saddle" rides, some rando rides (perm-pops), and that he has registered for a local, large, non-rando ride in mid-August. 

			Kms as of
Name	RUSA #	State	07/02/17		First Ride		Mondial
Mike D__	1609		82,809		4/13/2002		12/23/2010

 
Dean and Jerry attained Mondial status in 2012.  Joel and Rex in 2013.  Dean was tackled by a dog in late 2015, which resulted in the breaking of his K-Hound streak, and it appears that Dean is now mostly concentrating on a couple other hobbies that he loves, esp. chess.  Jerry seems to have backed off this year on collecting a lot of rando kms.  Joel has backed off on his rando riding -- a couple years ago he did five Super Rando series in one year -- crazy.  Rex seems to be taking a bit of a hiatus since earlier this year.

			Kms as of
Name	RUSA #	State	07/02/17		First Ride		Mondial
Dean F__	4070		76,909		2/23/2007		6/16/2012
Jerry P__	3525		77,107		4/8/2006		8/29/2012
Joel L__	692		68,346		4/3/1999		3/9/2013
Rex C__	4015		50,736		3/31/2007		8/21/2013

Mary, Tim, Mick, and Ron all attained Mondial status in 2014.  Mary and Mick each appear to have retired from rando.  Tim and Ron each appear to have recently cut back on their rando riding. 

			Kms as of
Name	RUSA #	State	07/02/17		First Ride		Mondial
Mary F__	3459		44,400		4/15/2006		3/15/2014
Tim L__	6016		66,458		2/6/2010		5/3/2014
Mick H__	6169		54,100		11/5/2010		6/1/2014
Ron M__	2916	VA	50,074		9/24/2005		9/20/2014

Lynn, Jacob, Ian, Bob, Keith and I all attained Mondial status in 2015.  Lynn is riding again, subsequent to being bashed into on Feb-20-2016; however, she says she has no plans to do any randonneuring in the future.  Jacob has been sidelined since late last year due to a multi-use path encounter; but I hear that he may be getting back into the swing of things, cycling-wise.  I don't know what to type regarding Keith.  Ian is a riddle wrapped in an enigma -- reduced rando riding with a one year old child the focal point of his life -- but I suspect that he might rip off a few 1000-k brevets any time, anywhere -- or some other silly, long ride or combinations thereof.  Bob continues to accumulate rando kms, training for PacTour tours.  As for me:  no comment, except I cannot recall whether I planned it, or if it was just serendipity, but the ride that put me beyond Mondial status occurred on my birthday. 

Okay, I do know something to type concerning Keith.  If one carefully looks at his history, one can see that he arranged his rides such that when he completed the ride that got him to Mondial status, his Lifetime RUSA kms came to exacly 40-thousand. 

			Kms as of
Name	RUSA #	State	07/02/17		First Ride		Mondial
Lynn L__	5519		52,789		4/4/2009		5/23/2015
Jacob A__	7199	VA	48,295		12/4/2011		5/30/2015
Ian H__	6176		54,677		4/10/2010		6/6/2015
Bob B__	5843		64,133		1/2/2010		6/19/2015
Martin S__	6218		50,999		4/10/2010		7/9/2015
Keith S__	3721	VA	49,301		3/15/2008		9/5/2015

Robert, Byron, and Bryan all attained Mondial status in 2016.  Bryan arranged Perm rides in order to get to exactly 40-thousand kms, and then go on hiatus as he spends time as a father for his one year old child.  Byron has been doing this rando thing longer than any of the others mentioned in this post, but he has always had a rational approach to time spent randonneuring.  Byron is also the second youngest mentioned in this post.  Ricochet Robert, along with Byron, is planning to do the Land's End - John O'Groats ride in Britain this summer.

			Kms as of
Name	RUSA #	State	07/02/17		First Ride		Mondial
Robert B__	6628		46,097		1/15/2011		3/6/2016
Byron M__	621		43,642		2/6/1999		7/9/2016
Bryan R__	5746		40,000		11/1/2009		12/3/2016

Geof is the only North Carolinian so far in 2017 to attain Mondial status.  Geof seems to have been hibernating of late, but appears to have recently gotten back on a rando bike at least once or twice.

			Kms as of
Name	RUSA #	State	07/02/17		First Ride		Mondial
Geof S__	5350		40,259		5/24/2009		5/7/2017

Of note is that six of the above mentioned randonneurs are members of the NC-2010-rookie-class.  However, only four of us are currently active.

I don't know who might be the next North Carolinian(s) to Mondial.