Have you met Arya the randonneur?
The Hindu
The actor shares how randonneuring goes beyond the long road and offers valuable life lessons
Madras Randonneurs urged its members to keep September 11 free for a special ride. It would celebrate the first ever brevet des randonneurs mondiaux (BRM) organised 100 years ago to that day, by Audax Club Parisien on a 200-km loop route on French soil.
Two hundred and eighty members of Madras Randonneurs kept the date free and did the commemorative 200-km ride down Chennai’s East Coast Road. Actor Arya was one of them. As a Super Randonneur — an enviable feat by itself — Arya has made it to the prestigious 1200-km Paris-Brest-Paris (PBP) ride. Talk to him about randonneuriing and his words would radiate an immense commitment to the endurance cycling sport. The star-actor explains why he randonneurs and what randonneuring has done for him.
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