WERC Holds IDEAL Ice-cream Cool Night 200km BRM
Mangaluru: The summer heat, strong headwinds, battling the sleep, night conditions challenges were galore and so were the accolades for the 17 die hard adventurists, who all completed one of the most popular 200km night BRM of Mangaluru.
Starting from one of the most buzzing locales of Mangalore PABBA’S, this ride was officially flagged off by Mukund Kamath owner of IDEAL ICE CREAM, a die-hard cycling enthusiast and an ardent supporter of team WE R Cycling, who was kind enough to join the riders in wishing them a safe ride. The riders were also treated to a super bowl of cool ice cream, MANMOH, a new flavour of the season introduced by IDEAL ICE CREAM, named after Mukund’s daughter Manya and son Mohit.
Riding on a hot summer night on the highway is always not an easy task as the humidity and headwinds catch the riders unaware. However, with full enthusiasm, every rider was crossing one hurdle at a time to reach the control stations & hydration points. Fresh veg sandwiches, vada-pav, plantains & oranges at the 100km turning point at Trasi helped riders to recuperate for their return journey. In order to keep the riders motivated a team of enthusiastic riders from Udupi Dr Bhaktha, Dr Tilak, Prof Narayan Nayak and the upcoming riders Bharat Nayak and Karthik Lagvankar accompanied the riders for a short distance. Though most of the riders were cruising to the finish point, the dark horse of team WERC Dhiraj Venkat suffered knee pain and had to be administered an injection and tablets. Deepak Hebbar another rider who was attempting a BRM after a gap of 2 years was slowly falling behind the pack. Joseph Pereira another strong rider was slowly getting into the danger zone of dehydration. However, the spirit of randonneuring, the company and never say never again attitude made them complete the ride well within time.
This unique BRM saw many firsts. The mountain goat of team WERC, Harivijay Kudva earned his second SUPER RANDONNEUR title and became the first and youngest rider from Mangalore to achieve this fete.!! A veteran of many BRMs and SRs, Venuvardhan from Goa was on his way to complete his 3rd SR of the season. Five first time riders, Sharat Gowda & Vinay from Mudigere, Anas and Dr Srinivas from Mangalore and Abhishek Bhat from Udupi earned the title of RANDONNEURES, who all graduated from BREVET POPULAIRE to RANDONNEURES.
The rest of the seasoned riders Mohibb Hussain, Ajay Khandare, Brijesh Balakrishnan, Rajesh Nayak, Navin Kotian, Dr Ramraj and D Mrinal Shetty all completed the ride pretty comfortably.
Our sincere gratitude to all the riders, all the members & volunteers for their support. Mukund Kamath of IDEAL ICE CREAM, TAJ Cycles, Antony Cycles for your association with team WE R Cycling.
Another wonderful BRM goes down the memory lane for its uniqueness. KUDOS to Team WERC.