thanks for the replies;
extensions are just that; a means of creating an extra distance that will take advantage of a nearby calendar event; I've done the advantages of this to death but here they are again;
1. You don't end up driving miles (as most winter 200s are on Sunday and inconvenient for trains) to keep your RRTY and points up
2. The organiser doesn't suddenly have riders disappear off his / her results sheet (which may already be depleted) due to riders doing a DIY out of it.
3. You don't sacrifice AAA's from a hilly ride by extending it
4. You don't sacrifice calendar points to the 50% rule
the ECE system has been approved and devised with the input of many of the AUK committee and also people here and elsewhere; and I hope you enjoy the new facility;
if you don't there is an AGM next week where you can go and have the rules changed
(and if you do; please find a secret roving inspector to find out if every rider on a calendar event has also entered an ECE and make sure they go back out and ride home)
What if you completed a 200km extension cycling to the event but DNS'd the calendar event.
You'd have to do a DIY for the 200 beforehand and not incorporate the cal event. Sorry; someone has to administer all this stuff and we can't allow for every single possibility.
You've entered both though. I never liked the DIY+Cal for that reason.
but how would anybody know you had entered the DIY bit if you just handed in your card at the end of the calendar event? you've also entered 2 evnts for that.
on a tangent; on one extremely hilly ride the organiser gave riders the option of cutting short and getting validated for the shorter distance event (still worth a shed load of AAA's) how does that work with "declaring your intentions"?