N.C. Perms -- What Have People Been Riding?, # 5b

The Previous blog-post looked at the Permanents (>= 200+ kms) that were ridden in 2012 if the circuits by the route-organizers on their own routes were ignored, and also if the remaining 2012-10K-Hound circuits were removed from the data.  This post will do the same thing for the Permanent-Populaires.

Part of the reason for looking at the data ignoring "own-route-circuits" is because of a joke JP made at the NC-year-end-party.  Other reason(s) include examining what the non-organizers / non-10K-Hounds randonneurs rode in 2012.

The Permanent-Populaires (100-199 kms): 

		ALL			sans organizer			sans 10K-Hounds
2012  --  Route Name		circuits	kms		circuits	kms		circuits	kms
Get 'er Dunn / 878		141	14,382		77	7,854		18	1,836
Bahama Beach / 1404		66	6,798		44	4,532		10	1,030
Eureka 100 / 1651		32	3,232		0	0		0	0
Howling Grits Populaire / 770		26	2,678		15	1,545		15	1,545
Hope Springs Eternal / 1636		17	2,380		7	980		2	280
Sauratown Lite Populaire / 977		19	2,318		2	244		2	244
Bunn Warmer / 1583		9	972		4	432		2	216
Cameron-Carrboro-Cameron / 1399		7	791		5	565		3	339
Ham and Yam Populaire Jam / 1178		5	540		0	0		0	0
Hillacious 100+6.5 / 1554		5	530		0	0		0	0
Benson Mule Pull / 792		4	420		4	420		0	0
Natty Greene Lite Populaire / 966		3	318		3	318		3	318
The Whirligig / 1006		2	200		2	200		2	200
L'Societe d'Adrian Hands Pop. / 1377		1	102		1	102		1	102
Capitol Bailey Pop - 102km / 1289		1	102		1	102		1	102

Total

338

35,763

165

17,294

59

6,212

Removing the route-organizers from their own route stats gives the middle set of above columns; note that:

• Dean did G'eD 64 times in 2012 and the Mule Pull not-at-all -- poor, neglected Mule Pull.  That's 45% of all G'eD circuits in 2012.  G'eD still comes in as the favorite perm-pop.  (No additional comment regarding the Mule Pull -- except:  I like that course, even if I've always ended up doing it slowly.)
• I did Bahama Beach 22 times.  That's 33% of all BB circuits.  But BB would still be the second-most-favorite perm-pop (third after removing all 2012-10K-Hound-Klub circuits). 
• Al P did his Eureka 32 times -- all since mid-September.  That 100% of all the Eureka circuits.  I'm confident that is only because the route became available late-ish in the year, and it is a little bit of a commute for Raleigh / Durham residents.  I do know some people say they are trying to figure out when to go do the route. 
• JP did his Howling Grits 11 times.  That's 42% of all HG circuits in 2012.  Hmmn -- Jerry's joke almost turns back on him.  :-o 
• Mick did his HSE 10 times, Bunn Warmer 5 times, and CCC twice.  59, 56 and 29 percent of total circuits, respectively. 
• Joel did his Sauartown Lite 17 times -- 89% of the circuits.  Would he have done the route another 16 times to get his third consecutive 10K-Hound if "life" had not gotten in the way?  I shudder to think of it. 
• In total, route-organizers (riding their own routes) did almost one-half of the circuits (and over one-half the kms) that were ridden on the NC perm-pops in 2012.  That certainly supports the idea that it is good to have a convenient route to ride. 

Removing the remaining 2012-NC-10K-Hound circuits gives the 2 right-most columns: 

• There were five NC 10K-Hound-Klub members in 2012.  In order of kms:  MickH, Dean, Mary, Ricochet Robert, me.  Only Robert is not a route-organizer. 
• 10K-Hounds accounted for another 106 circuits and 11-thousand more RUSA kms on perm-pops organized by others. 
• Route-organizers and 10K-Hounds accounted for ~ 82.5% of the circuits and kms completed / credited on NC Permanent-Populaires (100-199 kms) in 2012.  [Dean once told me that it would be a lot easier to get 10K-Hound status if one has their own "recovery populaire".  That has been the case for at least some of the NC 10K-Hounds in each year we've had some 10K-Hounds -- 2010, 2011, 2012.]  
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• On routes they don't organize, 10K-Hounds accounted for: 
• 59-circuits of G'eD (55 of those by Mick, 4 by me); 
• 34-circuits of Bahama Beach (24 by Mick, 10 by Ricochet Robert); 
• 5-circuits of Hope Springs Eternal (4 by me, 1 by Dean); 
• all 4 circuits of the Mule Pull (3 by Mick, 1 by me -- each was a solo effort); 
• 2-circuits of the Bunn Warmer (1 each by Dean and me); 
• 2-circuits of Cameron-Carrboro-Cameron (1 each by Dean and me). 
• In contrast to the Permanents of 200k or more, non-organizer 10K-Hounding was concentrated in, well, essentially two perm-pops.  

Big conclusion to these two posts? 

It appears that North Carolina randonneurs, other than route-organizers and 10K-Hounds, prefer riding a 200k-plus route over doing a perm-pop. 


Further posts to come? 

I think so. 
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