Barry Monaghan (reimagined) battling Covid-19
Photo: Little biker guy designed by Dan McGuire, covid collage Eric Fergusson

Permanent Stats 2020
by Eric Fergusson (permanents coordinator)

Here are the main stats from this past season's permanent brevets:

Total permanent distance: 19,712 km
Total number of rides: 95
Total number of riders: 22
Number of BC-12 award recipients: 11
Longest Permanent: Mike Hagen (306 km)
"Perma Butt" (most permanent distance): Barry Monaghan (3617 km)

Here are the 11 riders who earned a BC-12 pin for riding a brevet or permanent brevet in 12 consecutive months, ending in 2020:

Gary Baker
Eric Fergusson
Mike Hagen
Étienne Hossack
Dave King
Barry Monaghan
Jeff Mudrakoff
Mark Payten
Karen Smith
Roxanne Stedman
David White

Calculations were a little trickier this year because of the covid-19 pandemic, and the accompanying shut down months - riders could eliminate shutdown months to prevent interrupting their streaks. Fortunately all riders with on-going streaks still had enough "room" in 2020 to earn their 2020 BC-12 pins. Two riders (Eric and Dave) barely squeaked in with their final credited months being in December instead of September. The formula going forward may be altered, to accommodate on-going uncertainty, but for the moment the BC-12 rules under covid-19 are elsewhere in the newsletter - HERE.

Here's the full list of riders with their 2020 permanent distances:

 3617  Barry Monaghan      17  200, 200, 228, 257, 201, 201 ,200, 301, 200, 200, 206, 210, 210, 200, 200, 203, 200 
 3010  Mike Hagen          14  200, 200, 203, 213, 204, 207, 201, 257, 202, 306, 201, 201, 213, 202
 1827  Karen Smith          9  203, 203, 203, 203, 203, 203, 203, 203, 203
 1223  Gary Baker           6  204, 203, 204, 204, 204, 204
 1207  Dave King            6  200, 200, 200, 202, 202, 203
 1203  David White          6  200, 200, 200, 201, 201, 201 
 1018  Eric Fergusson       5  204, 203, 203, 207, 201
 1002  Mark Payten          5  200, 200, 200, 201, 201
  813  Daniele Reda         4  200, 211, 201, 201
  619  Étienne Hossack      3  206, 213, 200
  612  Jeff Mudrakoff       3  204, 204, 204
  601  Roxanne Stedman      3  200, 201, 200
  419  Nigel Press          2  206, 213
  405  Murray Tough         2  202, 203
  404  Chris Cullum         2  200, 204 
  400  Vincent(Sandy) Szabo 2  200, 200
  303  Matt Lee             1  303
  213  Anna Bonga           1  213
  213  Kiersten Hagen       1  213
  201  Bernard Barreyre     1  201
  201  Erin Sparks          1  201
  201  Gary Sparks          1  201

Perma Butt 2020 Barry Monaghan in front of Vancouver City Hall
at the start of permanent #35 "Wack & Back Express" (228km).

December 30, 2020