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

Previously, in this series.

Previously, I mentioned a joke JP made in the introduction of Dean "Phun Physio" F as the 2012-NC-Randonneur-of-the-Year.  Condensing, the jist was that Dean's Permanents were the most ridden in North Carolina, but maybe not if one didn't count Dean's rides, er, completed circuits.  Luckily (?), with the extract that Ian did, and knowledge of who the various route-organizers are (one can always check the RUSA website), and some other skills, we can find out.  [Warning:  I removed the route-organizer and 10K-Hound info manually, it is possible that I made a mistake or two, or three.]

The Permanents (200k or more):

		ALL			sans organizer			sans 10K-Hounds
2012 -- Route Name		circuits	kms		circuits	kms		circuits	kms
Lookin' Out My Back Door / 1468		77	15,477		66	13,266		51	10,251
Leesville-Leasburg-Leesville / 831		60	12,240		50	10,200		26	5,304
Warrenton + Egypt Mountain / 1444		26	5,548		17	3,625		11	2,343
Ammons-Whiteville / 1380		27	5,454		11	2,222		11	2,222
Tar Heel 200 / 589		26	5,200		24	4,800		22	4,400
Lumberton-Ellerbe 200K / 1391		25	5,075		14	2,842		14	2,842
OakElmOak / 1551		17	3,553		14	2,926		9	1,881
Carolina Crossroads / 1279		12	2,400		9	1,800		6	1,200
Showdown in Black Creek / 481		10	2,040		10	2,040		6	1,224
Lake Gaston 210K / 1242		9	1,890		6	1,260		6	1,260
Yanceyville Ramble / 480		8	1,664		8	1,664		8	1,664
Big Bike to Performance Bike / 803		6	1,302		4	868		4	868
Sauratown 200K / 412		6	1,284		1	214		1	214
Brushy Mountain Lassooo / 1013		6	1,236		4	824		4	824
Carthage Coffee Run / 952		6	1,206		6	1,206		6	1,206
How I ... Love the BOMB / 1290		6	1,200		4	800		4	800
Natty Greene 200 / 958		5	1,070		5	1,070		5	1,070
Kerr Lake Loop / 143		5	1,040		3	624		3	624
Siler City Express / 257		3	603		2	402		2	402
Tread of Tears / 1606		2	600		1	300		1	300
Coffeedence / 1629		2	412		1	206		1	206
Blackbeard's Permanent / 58		1	283		0	0		0	0
Wilkes Foothills 200K / 924		1	203		1	203		1	203
Triple Mountain View / 926		1	201		0	0		0	0

Total

347

71,181

261

53,362

202

41,308

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

• Dean did LOMBD 11 times and Tar Heel twice.  LOMBD still comes in as the favorite perm, and Tar Heel would move up to third on the list. 
• Byron did Triple-L 10 times.  But Triple-L would still be the second most-favored perm. 
• I did Egypt Mtn 9 times. 
• Mary did her Ammons route 16 times, and her Ellerbe route 11 times.  See additional comment below. 
• "Skinny" Joel did Sauartown 5 times. 
• No one else did any of their own routes more than 3 times. 
• Looking only at the Perms of 200+ kms, it seems that JP's joke might have been better applied to Mary than Dean (but only regarding 2012).  Additionally, Mary was not at the year-end-party, so the joke would not have been "fair".  Furthermore, I have a sneaking suspicion that the Perm-Pops (100-199 kms) might very well change the impression left by the above chart -- Mary doesn't organize any populaires; Dean does, and he rides the heck out of one of them in particular. 
• Route organizers did their own 200+ km perms 86 times in 2012, and collected just under 18-thousand RUSA kms.  

Removing the remaining completed circuits of the 2012 North Carolina 10K-Hounds gives the right-most 2 columns above: 

• 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.  Perhaps there is a lesson there:  organizing your own route(s) might be a considerable help to attaining 10K-Hound status.  (That definitely seemed so in 2010 in NC, but not so much in 2011.  More later?) 
• 10K-Hounds accounted for another 58 circuits and nearly 12-thousand more RUSA kms on routes organized by others. 
• We can see that 10K-Hounds do ride routes other than there own.  
• Route-organizers and 10K-Hounds accounted for ~ 41.5% of the circuits and kms completed / credited on Permanents (200+ kms) in 2012.  
• It's good to know that non-route-oranizers and those not infected with the 10K-Hound virus still acounted for forty-one-and-a-half thousand RUSA kilometers on Permanents in 2012. 
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• On routes they don't organize, 10K-Hounds accounted for: 
• 15-circuits of LOMBD (11 of those by MickH, 3 by me, 1 by Ricochet); 
• 24-circuits of Triple-L (16 by Ricochet, 5 by me, 2 by Mick, 1 by Dean); 
• 6-circuits of Egypt Mtn (4 by Ricochet, 2 by Mick); 
• 5-circuits of OakElmOak (3 by me, 1 each by Dean and Mary);
• 4-circuits of Black Creek (2 by me, 1 each by Mick and Ricochet); 
• 3-circuits of Carolina Crossroads (1 each by Mick, Dean and me); and 
• 2-circuits of the Tar Heel 200 (1 each by Mick and me). 
• Therefore, one can see that the K-Hounds "spread themselves around pretty well", although most of them had clear favorites. 
• [I keep flipping between referring to the 2012-NC-10K-Hounds in third person and first person.  I'm confident that I'll fail to edit them all to the same tense and "person".]   

The above seems enough for a single post.  The Perm-Pops will be addressed in a separate post.
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