Greetings.

Now that I be back from both the CNY vacation and a biz trip here's
an update on Randonneurs of China (ROC).

Email address: ROChina@yahoogroups.com is the new email address
for "general" email information when you want to send something to
all members of Randonneurs of China

WEB Address: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ROChina Paste this to
your web browser to view messages, files, etc.

ROC instead of ROCn: Abbreviation changed to ROC simply because the
Cn was causing a lot of confusion and questions.

OFFICIAL SANCTION FOR BREVETS: The Audax Club Parisien (ACP) has, as
they say, homologated the two brevets and I've received official
Brevet Control Cards.

April 14th: 200K and 100K on the same route.
200K: If you want the official recognition from France of having
completed a 200K, with your name placed in the record book in Paris,
the return of your brevet control card to you as a souvenir, your
option to buy a souvenir medal, and as soon as I can think of a good
one, a commerorative item for the First Ever ACP Brevet in China.
100K : For those who'd like the challenge of a 100K ride, but don't
want to do a 200K The 100K will follow the same basic route of the
200K, but severely limit the distance on the Bequing Hway to Suzhou.
200K Celebration Get Together: Since riders finish at all different
times, I'd like to hold a "Congrats" get together on some evening
after the ride. Suggestions of places welcome. I see a lot of FHL
meetings at the Blue Frog. Hopefully by then I'll have the
commerorative whatever done.
Pudong 100K: Another group is holding a 100K ride in Pudong on April
14th. So as not to conflict with them ROC moved its 100K to be part
of the 200K ride.

Future 100K Rides: Kevin Hill and I have plans for a monthly 100K
ride in Pudong or leaving from central Shanghai and going west or
both or a combination or.........

ROC Metric Century Club: More information to come in a separate
email. Simply it'll be a "club" of anyone who wants to challenge
themselves to do "x" number of 100k rides in the year. Honor system
and I'll keep the stats on a webpage.

ROC WEBPAGE: Initial webpage is being done by Adrian Hands, who will
be coming over from the states to do the China brevet. He's
volunteered space on his site to host our webpage. Thank ye Adrian.

Volunteer Help Welcome: Anyone who wants to be a regular "help Joe"
with ROC, please email me at jkeenan0407@... Figure we can
meet at a central place such as the Portman, etc.

Ride Cue Sheets: As soon as the weather clears a bit, I will ride
the 200k and "homologate" the exact distance, turns, etc. for both
the 200K and 100K ride. When I do that I'll send excel cue sheets,
post the files on the ROC yahoo group, and also on the FHL yahoo
group site.

Questions?: As always, any questions drop me a line at
jkeenan0407@...

Cheers

Slo Joe