N.C. Permanents -- What Have People Been Riding?

Things have come a long way since Jul-01-2006, when two pioneering local randonneurs completed the first ever Permanent ride on the first ever Permanent route here in North Carolina.  

How far have things come?

According to data extracted from the RUSA data-base by IanH, augmented by a few rides late in 2012 that had not been entered on RUSA data-base at the time of the extract, through the end of 2012, a total of 359, 916 official RUSA kilometers have been credited on Permanents and Perm-Pops that start in the "Old North State".

The following is a chart by year of rides completed, official RUSA kilometers credited, and the official elapsed time to ride those perms and perm-pops (and also a couple statistics for each year).

year	rides	kms	hrs	k / ride	kph
2012	685	106,944	5,495.7	156.1	19.5
2011	711	108,899	5,559.5	153.2	19.6
2010	482	82,511	4,205.4	171.2	19.6
2009	140	28,266	1,463.8	201.9	19.3
2008	80	16,846	851.9	210.6	19.8
2007	59	12,556	588.4	212.8	21.3
2006	18	3,894	187.6	216.3	20.8
total	2,175	359,916	18,352.3	165.5	19.6

I was surprised to see that the number of completed rides and credited kilometers in 2012 were less than in 2011.
 
In coming days, I'll try to publish a report or two (or three) regarding which permanents and perm-pops were ridden in 2012, with comparison to previous years.

For the curious that may be wondering about the route and the identity of the pioneering local randonneurs mentioned in the first sentence of this post:  (1) the route was Blackbeard's Permanent, and  (2) the intrepid pioneers were a certain MikeD (RUSA #1609) and one JerryP (RUSA #3525). 
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