{"id":4109,"date":"2024-02-16T14:16:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T19:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/floridarandonneurs.com\/wordpress\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2024-02-16T14:19:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T19:19:36","slug":"new-rusa-acp-rule-re-intermediate-control-times-largely-irrelevant-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/floridarandonneurs.com\/wordpress\/?p=4109","title":{"rendered":"New RUSA\/ACP Rule re: Intermediate Control Times (largely irrelevant to us)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Ffloridarandonneurs.com%2Fwordpress%2F%3Fp%3D4109&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font=arial\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p>All&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Our French overlords &#8212; the ACP &#8212; have decreed that intermediate control times are . . . no longer a thing. The control itself IS still a thing&#8211;you&#8217;ve still got to verify passage through every control, including the intermediate ones without exception&#8211;but with this change you&#8217;re now allowed to arrive and depart intermediate controls (meaning, not the start and not the finish but every other control point on the route) whenever you want.<\/p>\n<p>This really isn&#8217;t relevant to us. In 13 seasons of being an RBA hosting over 1000 riders on brevets in those years, I have never had a rider &#8220;out of time&#8221; at any control, including the finish control (one rider came within two or three minutes and several have been within 10 minutes, but I&#8217;ve never had an HD\/ DNQ rider). I&#8217;ve also never had a rider (other than someone in a velomobile on the 2016 Cracker Swamp) able to &#8220;ride ahead&#8221; of a control opening time, even to the first control (one of you came within 4 minutes once, which was impressive). So, while there won&#8217;t be opening and closing times enforced for intermediate controls, I&#8217;ll still print those times on the cue sheet and brevet card to help in planning\/pacing your ride.<\/p>\n<p>All this said, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">nothing changes with the start and finish of the brevets: You cannot start early (brevets are mass-start at the designated time) and you cannot finish late<\/span>. Doing either of those things = DNF. Otherwise, enjoy the additional freedom in how you pace yourself around the course. Personally, I&#8217;m looking forward to more rest and sleep on the 600K and longer events, especially on the last night of a 1200K. I&#8217;d rather finish in 88-89 hours with 8 hours of sleep that last night than in 85 hours because I had to leave out early to make it to some gas station at 1050km by 6am. Woo hoo!<\/p>\n<p>Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All&#8211; Our French overlords &#8212; the ACP &#8212; have decreed that intermediate control times are . . . no longer a thing. 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