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But then what's the gap? 24hr? If I ride a 100 in the morning and then another 100 in the evening they're clearly two different rides but it sounds like they'd not quite be in the spirit of things. But if they are treated as two separate 100s, how small a gap between the two rides before it becomes 'loops'?
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This is being discussed on the AUK forum at the moment.
The regulation talks about avoiding repeating circuits. So no doing 19 laps of Richmond Park for a DIY 200. No doing 2 laps of an existing DIY 100. No doing two laps of a 5km loop at the end of a ride in order to get it up to the required distance.
Riding one loop one way and then the same loop the other way is ok.
The regulation should be read as: "don't repeat roads unnecessarily".
So if you do reuse a control on your ride (which is generally fine) then you may need to reuse some of the roads near the control, that's ok if you plan to minimise the reuse, i.e. take the first sensible turn off to get on to unridden roads.
I'm still not sure whether it's possible to ride two DIY rides on the same day, i.e. you ride a DIY 50 before work and then a DIY 100 after work. Will ask about that.