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At the beginning of the 2020 season we surveyed our club members to see what they wanted to get out of the club without RUSA since they took the year off, and the findings were really interesting. The vast majority of our club members just like the challenge and camaraderie of long-distance rides with a small group. Hardly anyone cares about RUSA awards or ever rides a perm so we reduced the number of ACP rides for 2022 to exactly one SR series and added a bunch of non-ACP rides to the schedule. A few of those are double-centuries, just a bit longer than a 300k. People like those because they are long enough to be challenging, but short enough to do in one day without a hotel stay even with a few hours of travel to the start. Another interesting finding from running non-ACP rides over the past two seasons is that people actually like controls as a place to regroup with other riders. On a long ride with no planned stops, people can end up riding the whole thing solo which pretty much nobody prefers on a club ride. The best thing about non-ACP routes is that you can put the controls wherever you want and it's a lot easier to route around busy roads without adding info-controls which people universally despise.
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