To me the interesting part of publishing times is not necessarily the finish times, but the intermediate times so you can look at how riders managed their sleep stops, etc. It's useful information.
I believe that Danial is looking to publish an anonymised set of control time checkin data for every control once it has been collated. However, there's a reasonable percentage of this data that only exists on 400 odd brevet cards and has to be manually entered.
I sometimes wonder why AUK publish so little information - not just times for LEL
(Lack of) Finishing times is because of a AUK regulation:-
Aug Regulations 5.x"
5.11 Results: AUK events are not races and no timed results list or placings list of any AUK event is to be published.
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If you want to change that you'll need to propose a change to the regulations and go along to the AGM to vote on it.
but also information on calendar and permanent rides as well (it starts and finishes at 'A' and goes 200km doesn't help much). Is it down to some strongly held belief or is it just an inability or unwillingness to put the work into making the information available?
Much of it has never been published in the past, and many people gladly entered the rides without knowing the full details. Much would have been passed around by word of mouth, or through chatting to people on other rides. As the number of rides/perms in the calendar increases the amount of information that can be passed around by word of mouth is diluted.
I used to want to know as much detail as possible about a ride before entering it, now I've mellowed to the point that I don't really care. If I didn't prefer using a GPS for navigation I'd be inclined to turn up at the start of the ride and pick up a copy of the routesheet and ride to that and let the mystery unravel as I go along.
And possibly because people are somehow afraid of asking the organiser, or someone else, about a particular ride. In days before email and cycling forums on t'Internet people will have written letters to each other asking such questions and, more than likely, the post office wouldn't have regularly been on strike to disrupt this. Nowadays people grumble about how they can't even be arsed to enter an event if they have to "faff around" finding two C5 envelopes, their cheque book and 3 stamps.
A polite "can I ask for some information about your perms?" letter to the organiser might not go amiss, along with a "have you thought about updating your perm info on the website to give a rough outline of each route?"
Something like
The Dean 300 Perm is all that's needed.
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Oxford - Stow - Newent - Chepstow - Malmesbury - Membury - Oxford (approx 3900m climbing)
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