Am I reading this correctly, and if using a mandatory route for the ECE, the preferred file submission before the event would include both the ECE and the calendar route? Presumably deviations on the calendar ride would not impact on validation.
correct; in order to allow a shorter ECE I need to see that the intended total route is over n300km; but the calendar route is not mandatory.
Two follow on questions then.
Firstly, on AUKWEB the advise given is "Alas only the nominal distance of the Calendar event counts, so if your 200km Calendar event is actually 215km ‘on the road’, alas only the 200km will count towards your ECE total." So doesn't the ECE part need to be added to the nominal distance of the Calendar event?
Secondly, assuming that is a correct statement regarding the nominal distance, is the preferred approach to submit a file with both ECE and calendar routes combined before the ride, or is that only in the circumstances described here where the over-distance calendar event is being counted as over-distance?