Paris-Brest-Paris
1200km, quadrennial, epic. Almost without argument the greatest amateur event in cyclesport.
You may want to take a look at the general audax articles too.
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9 November 2011
PBP via Tweet
Paris-Brest-Paris, the pinnacle of amateur cyclesport, boiled down into forty-four text messages of at most 144 characters each. High points in green, low points in red.
Now this is a ride report that isn’t too hard to get stuck into! 
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22 September 2011
PBP: Going Faster
There are four years and myriad assumptions involved in getting to PBP 2015, but I’d like to think I’ll be back and angling for a much faster ride.
At times the only thing that kept me going was the surety that the only thing worse than what I was enduring would be to fail to endure it!
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16 August 2011
Paris-Brest-Paris: Kitlist
The following is an account of the stuff I took to Paris-Brest-Paris 2011, what went wrong, what went right, and general musing.
Originally I wrote this as a thought process for myself, but for the benefit of posterity I thought I’d publish it (and hey, 2015 will come around sooner than any of us expect!)