Originally Posted by
leaping_gnome
Thanks! I strongly believe in not driving to cycling events if it can be helped, so I ride locally or ride to or take the train to an event if possible. Along those lines I have prepared four official 200k Permanent routes and submitted them for RUSA approval just this past week. Once approved, I can ride and get R12 credit for these permanent routes that start essentially from my doorstep. Once you are a RUSA member you don't need to have a local club or organization, you just contact RUSA directly.
Oh, now that is very cool indeed! What do you know about the approval process? As for the routes you have prepared, did you ride them before submitting them, or did you just whip them up on bikeroutetoaster or the like? I'm kinda wishing you had mentioned this earlier... but January is still young... I could do this too!