Surely they will just assess it under rules in place at the time you completed the events, not when you submit your claim?
So, does this mean,
If you completed a BRM 600 in the last six years it will become valid a qualifier on October 31st?
or
From October 31st you will need to do a BRM 600 and prior to that date you will have needed to have done one of the SR600s?
I've not done one of the SR 600s but I think I have done a BRM 600 with over 8000M climbing (Kernow & Southwest . Interested as I've now completed LEL and everything else bar this 600.
The way I read the rules, ACP have now changed them, with immediate effect. And as written the option
for applications until 31 Oct to fill the hilly 600 row is either:
1) a SR600 homologated by 31 Oct 2022, or
2) a BRM 600 with 8000m of climb
From 1 Nov, the requirement is a BRM 600 with 8000m of climb,
without the option. A SR600 homologated by 31 Oct 2022 can be used for the
additional kilometres (2 x SR+ and all the mandatories adds up to 86,000): so an applicant needs another 14 'points'.
The hilly BRM, can like all the other mandatories be done 'anytime' (within the 6 years, as amended by the pandemic codicil). So mine will be the KSW (2016, but my last ride on the list was PBP 2019 - so all done in 40 months). That was certainly hilly enough, with the quality assurance of @Ian H as organiser. I am deliberately using that 600 rather than my BCMs for the climbing assurance aspect. Deano's 9000+m will crack it no probs (if BRM).
The challenges 'going forward' (ugh) are:
1) many foreign BRM calendars don't list climb
2) the only UK 600 next year which might be hilly enough is not yet on the calendar: Bryan Chapman Memorial (organised by . . . .?)
3) How many organisers are going to organise a hilly calendar 600 (40 hour time limit)? With checkpoints able to provide PoP. How many riders will choose those rides?
