Northern Virginia 1000km/1200km

Registration Opens Early Summer. Add your name to Interested Rider list

Event description: The “Richmond Clover” is brand new event that it has been brought to you by Hamid & Shab Akbarian. They were the ride organizers of many 1200km events in Northen Virginia and Northeast Florida. Shab is the winner of 2017 American Randonneuring Award for her dedication to the Randonneuring sport and the riders. People call her “Queen of Volunteers”. The Richmond Clover has been designed to be a cloverleaf format. Ride starts by Richmond airport and traverse through cycling trail to James town ferry which it operates 24/7/365 days non-stop. Ferry is free of charge. After the ferry, route goes south ad cross North Carolina and back to Richmond. Day2 will be a scenic 300km around Richmond, day 3, takes riders north to historic Fredericksburg, and day 4 is a 200km loop in Richmond countryside. Event provides discounted room block on the event hotel and riders may arrange their own lodging. This allows less risk of financial loss to the riders. 

Event date: Thursday Oct 08, 2026 – Starting at 4am EST. 

Event Host Hotel: Hampton Inn Richmond – Airport  **Read below for discounted room block.

1-Registration link: It will be posted here soon.

2-You must sign the online waiver to be able to ride: https://waiver.smartwaiver.com/v/rusavanorthern

Important note: Once you have signed the waiver successfully, you will receive an email confirmation. In that email, there is a link to download a copy of your signed waiver in PDF format. You have only 3 days to download a copy before the link gets expired.

Please download a copy and email it to info@cyclingforever.com. You can NOT start the ride if I did not receive your signed waiver. It is rider responsibility to make sure that I have their waiver. You must sign two waivers for 1000km+200km.

3-The Event Fee TBD is per rider (x2 for tandem) for either 1000k, or 1200k. Payment instruction is below. *The registration Fee is non-refundable and non-transferable. *

  • If paid, by August 31, TBD
  • If paid, by September 23: TBD

Note: If you register and not pay until Sep 01 then your event fee will be calculated based on September.

Event Cancellation: If we have to cancel the event, riders will get a full refund minus a pro rata share of expenses we can’t recover – for example, lodging we can’t cancel, supplies we can’t return, etc.

Payment Instructions:

  • Pay the event fee(s) via https://www.zellepay.com/ by using the info@cyclingforever.com email or 561-843-3770 phone number
  • Check or Bank wire transfer (contact me for inctrsuction).

No PayPal or any other 3rd party online payment methods and cash will be accepted. 

Note on Zellepay.com: Check with your bank if they have this service in their online banking system. Most of American based banks do have Zellepay service. 

Event fee Includes: 

  • A custom souvenir medal.
  • No drop bags since the route is a Cloverleaf.
  • An electronic Brevet Card.
  • RideWithGPS link.
  • An electronic cue-sheet generated from RideWithGPS.
  • Post-ride party food/drink.

​Event fee does NOT include:

  • Riders accommodation before/during/after the ride.
  • Riders food/drink during the event.

**There will be a discounted block of rooms from Wednesday Oct 07 to Monday Oct 12, totaling 5 nights. There are only limited discounted rooms, and they are based on first come, first serve as riders registered & paid in full, the discounted rate will be expired after September 23rd.  

Use this link to make reservation:

Qualification: None, riders should assess their ability to ride a long distance of 1000km or 1200km. 

Please Note: Riders are responsible to get back to the start/finish on their own if they DNF.

Route Draft: The final route will be published here and will be emailed to registered riders https://ridewithgps.com/routes/54762958

Please call me 561-843-3770 or email me info@cyclingforever.com if you have any questions about qualification.

Interested Riders (This list will be updated periodically)

  1. Frederic Perman – Quebec-Canada
  2. Kirsten Walker – California 
  3. Frank Geilen – Illinois 
  4. Todd Peterson – NJ
  5. Samuel Leadholm – Massachusetts
  6. Matthew Cole – Maryland
  7. Colin Moy – California
  8. Chris Argo – Alabama
  9. Jason Reibold – Virginia
  10. Francis DiCarlantonio – Maryland 
  11. Harriet Goers – Washington DC
  12. Erin Fulton – New Jersey 
  13. Cheng-Hong Li – New Jersey
  14. Lydia Trott – Indiana
  15. Kris Lucius – Chicago
  16. Razvan Buciuc – NY
  17. Chon – Illinois 
  18. Luciana Santo – Sao Paulo – Brazil
  19. Raniel de Lima – Sao Paulo – Brazil
  20. Elly Winer – Ohio
  21. Scott Cowan – United States
  22. Benge Ambrogi – New Hampshire
  23. Rob Gauthier – Maine
  24. Dan Diehn – Wisconsin
  25. Heather Diehn – WI
  26. Mitchel Estridge – KY
  27. Christian tatu – Massachusetts
  28. John D’Elia – CT
  29. Koester – Maine
  30. Jason Spitzer
  31. Francis Lim – Australia
  32. Peter Rajcani – Texas
  33. Andrew Adere – United States
  34. Dan Hallman – Washington, DC
  35. Charlie Martin – California
  36. Lydia Ellen Trott – Indiana 
  37. Mark Rada – Indiana
  38. Kent Beernink – IL
  39. Ben Urbanke Berlin (GERMANY)
  40. Diana Stoen – United States
  41. Thomas Southwood – Indiana 
  42. Todd A Peterson – NJ
  43. Aliya Weise California, USA
  44. Sakthi Raja – Virginia
  45. Chris Gross – Washington DC
  46. Georgi Stoychev – Virginia
  47. Paul Donaldson – Virginia
  48. Mike Sturgill – Arizona
  49. Giovanni Prosperi – Ohio
  50. Yonnel Gardes – WA
  51. Elizabeth Salesky – Seattle WA
  52. Michael Tomcho – California
  53. Jose Blanco – Maryland
  54. Hamid Akbarian – Florida

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