Ride 'Round Rhondda doesn't work as a perm. It has secret controls and manufactured infos to ensure that riders benefit from the hilly goodness.
RRR takes a lot of work for an individual who does not drive to set up. I am happy to do it but I simply do not have the time next weekend. If I had the entries I would have visited the controls last Saturday and hung little signs up to create infos, bully someone into being a secret control and order an excess of Brevet cards for the late entries. Without any entries I can not second guess the number of entries I might have or not.
It may be for the best. This ride would have been BRM this year as we wanted to make all our Cardiff Byways rides qualifiers. Some people would have found RRR a really big ask at standard Audax speeds. It is generally regarded as tougher than the British or Plynlimon Polka.
RRR will not be run at all next year. I plan to run it and the British on alternate years. The main problem RRR has with entries is its date. Particularly this year when the strong South Wales riders are trying to qualify for PBP. The past couple of years the Brevet Cymru is on the first week, The Bryan Chapman is now in the third week. So there are three hard rides on consecutive weeks, few riders want to do all three and others will not get three weekend passes from swmbo. So RRR suffers for numbers. Add to this the vandalism done to the AAA competition so RRR does not currently have a place in calendar.
You can try and ask IanH my regional boss in the Audax hierarchy to order me to run the event. I do not have time to setup the event on Saturday or Sunday but next weekend is a bank holiday.
