Originally Posted by
SapInMyBlood
Cool! I'm guessing a 300 or 600 would count in lieu as well ?
That's an impressive accomplishment, especially in the cold states...
Anything 200K or longer counts, either a scheduled brevet or a permanent route. There's a P-12 for 12 consecutive months of populaires; 100k or longer. One big positive of the R-12 is that I come into spring in 200k condition.
I had a streak of 5 consecutive R-12's going through January 2019, at which point I ended it intentionally. In Indiana, the winter months were a challenge. Of those 60 rides, one time I drove south to Tennessee due to weather. We had inches of snow on the ground, and I decided even with studded snow tires I would not be able to complete my route in the allotted time. Tennessee was no piece of cake, as the temp was in the 20's at the start. IIRC, that was a 200k on the Natchez Trace parkway.
Dan Driscol (Texas) has a streak of 17 continuous R-12s going back to 2005. That's no small feat; central Texas has extreme heat, humidity, extreme storms, and it's own cold weather.