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02-24-23 | 02:27 AM

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jlippinbike

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Antimonysarah said: I think the not-including motels in the fees is more because prices have skyrocketed in some areas.
Yes. I think that is part of it. Higher motel fees being added into an event budget certainly imposes a larger BURDEN on the organizer of any such event. I only mentioned the lack of motels in event budgets in my "question" because I like the fact that riders are not required to stay at a motel in order to complete such events. They can bikepack the event as though it was a long permanent route. Whenever I have done a 1000k or 1200k RUSA calendared event in the past I have always stayed at motels for the overnights. But after doing basically a 1000k RUSA perm without staying in motels (and having fun with it), I doubt I would want to pay for motels ever again unless I was doing the ride as a social thing and probably helping a newbie randonneur complete it or something.

The first 1000k RUSA calendared event I did was a cloverleaf design. And I thought it was a wonderful experience. And yes, they are a lot easier for an organizer to put on. I've found them much easier to design, too. Just pick a nice overnight location and then design a 400k route, and two 300k routes. Voila, you've got a 1000k route. Unfortunately, cloverleaf routes seem to feel more like training rides than actual long distance events. But what the heck.

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