Is randonneuring really about accumulating riding miles?
I just did a search for 300k rides for 2022 on the RUSA Web site. If you cut out CA and TX results, then there were 99 total offerings nationwide. I live in NJ, so for me the local RUSA regions (MA, MD, NJ, NY-long island, PA-eastern, and VA-northern) combined offered 15 of those 99. My question is: Why are so few 300k brevets offered by RUSA's RBA's? And if you think they offer plenty, then why are there so few 300k perms listed in the RUSA Permanents Program? Currently there are a total of 40 perms in the perm program catalog that vary in length from 300k to 310k. That's for the entire country including CA and TX.
Is randonneuring really about accumulating riding miles, or is it about participating in long rides? The scarcity of 300k ride offerings indicates to me that randonneuring is really about accumulating riding miles. What do you think?