Awards guide

Awards mark a season’s riding, a year without a gap, or years of long rides. None of them needs a separate ride: the ones you’d ride anyway count, often towards several awards at once. Each award has its own page with the full rules.

The awards

In one season, November to October

Super Randonneur
A BRM of each of 200, 300, 400 and 600 km. Permanents don’t count, and a longer ride can’t stand in for a shorter one.
From
ACP
Claim
Audax Ireland lists you from your results. The medal is €6, ordered through them.
Brevet 2000 and 5000
2,000 or 5,000 km from Irish events and permanents of 200 km or more, and BRMs abroad. You get the higher one.
From
Audax Ireland
Claim
No form and no medal: Audax Ireland lists you. Tell them about rides abroad.
4 Provinces
A calendar event of 200 km or more starting in each of Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster. One can be a permanent, outside your home province. Counted over the calendar year.
From
Audax Ireland
Claim
Claim form, filled in by the tracker. The medal is free.

Twelve months in a row

RRTY and RRTY 100
A ride of 200 km or more in each of 12 months in a row, starting in any month. RRTY 100 takes rides of 100 km or more.
From
Audax Ireland
Claim
Claim form, filled in by the tracker, within two years of finishing. The medal is free. RRTY 100 needs an annual Cycling Ireland licence.

Over several years

4 Nations Super Randonneur
BRMs of 200, 300, 400 and 600 km, each in a different one of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, within four seasons, from 2024/25.
From
Audax Ireland and Audax UK
Claim
Claim form, filled in by the tracker. The medal is optional, €5.
ACP Randonneur 5000 and 10000
5,000 km in four years or 10,000 km in six, including set rides such as Paris-Brest-Paris and a Flèche. Permanents don’t count.
From
ACP
Claim
Form filled in by the tracker; apply through Audax Ireland by 31 October.
International Super Randonneur
A 200, 300, 400 and 600, each in a different country, with no time limit.
From
Les Randonneurs Mondiaux
Claim
Apply to LRM; the tracker lists your rides for its form.

One ride

The Easter Flèche
A team of three to five bikes riding at least 360 km in 24 hours to a shared finish.
From
Audax Ireland, validated by ACP
Claim
Nothing to claim: finish with your team.
SR600
A 600 km ride with serious climbing: a Super Randonnée permanent with 10,000 m or more in 60 hours, or a BRM 600 with 8,000 m or more in 40.
From
Provence Randonneurs, or ACP for the BRM
Claim
Nothing to claim: the ride is the achievement.

One ride, many awards

A ride counts towards every award whose rules it meets. One June 300 can do a lot:

300 kmA BRM starting in Leinster, in June

Super RandonneurThe 300 in this season’s series
Brevet 2000 and 5000300 km towards the season’s total
4 ProvincesLeinster
RRTY and RRTY 100June
4 Nations SRThe 300, ridden in Ireland
Randonneur 5000 and 10000300 km towards the total

A few limits apply:

Brevet 2000 and 5000 are one award: you get the higher.
A ride fills one place in an award, so a 400 can’t be both the 300 and the 400 of a Super Randonneur series.
A ride counts once for each award: it can’t go into two Super Randonneur series or two 4 Provinces claims.

Claiming

Most Audax Ireland awards are claimed with a form from the award’s page on Audax Ireland’s awards pages, emailed to the recorder named there. The medals are optional and currently free, but only come if you send the form. The Super Randonneur medal is €6, and the Brevet 2000 and 5000 have no medal: Audax Ireland lists you on its roll of honour.

ACP’s distance awards go through Audax Ireland by 31 October, and the International Super Randonneur goes to Les Randonneurs Mondiaux directly. Their pages have the steps.

Planning a season

Choose a main award, then look for rides that help another at the same time. The season runs 1 November to 31 October; RRTY carries across it.

Super Randonneur and Brevet 2000The series is 1,500 km. Add 500 km from rides of 200 km or more, a BRM or a permanent. Shorter events don’t count.
Super Randonneur and RRTYSpread the series over four months, then find a 200 for each of the other eight. The Easter Flèche covers March or April.
Super Randonneur and 4 ProvincesPick series rides that start in different provinces: the start is what counts. One permanent can fill a 4 Provinces gap, but not a place in the series.
Brevet 5000 and RRTY5,000 km is about 420 km a month. A summer of long rides builds the total but leaves gaps, so keep a 200 in every month.
RRTY 100 firstA ride of 100 km or more every month: a 100 or 120 km event, a permanent, or anything longer. The gentlest way into a streak.
Towards ACP 5000 or 10000Permanents don’t count, and Paris-Brest-Paris and 1,000s are rare, so plan those first and fill in around them.

Two rides in one month can’t make up for a missed month of RRTY. The exception is a calendar event that’s cancelled, when Audax Ireland’s committee may allow a ride the following month instead. Plan winter permanents early.

In the tracker

Signed in, your progress page has a card for each award with its rules, and the calendar shows which awards an event could count towards. Plan a ride from the calendar, then turn on projections to see what your planned rides would complete.

Super Randonneur, Brevet and the Flèche are recorded for you. The rest appear on Claims when you finish, where the tracker fills in the claim form for you to send. Find Past Awards, on Achievements, checks your earlier seasons. One difference from Audax Ireland: once a ride is in an RRTY claim, the tracker won’t use it for RRTY 100, and the other way round. Tracking awards shows each step.