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That is quick! Very interesting to hear how things are done elsewhere. It depends on who is riding and what they want to do, and local laws and customs, I suppose.
But a lot of events do run on that basis of 'it's not a race but you came xxth'. It's a theme in ultras where some events started off wanting to be races but then pulled back from that.
Does ACP not have a maximum speed? Didn't know that.
frank9755-
Actually they do have a 34kmph max
Overall time limits vary for each brevet according to the distance.
These are: (in hours and minutes, HH:MM) 13:30 for 200 KM, 20:00 for
300 KM, 27:00 for 400 KM, 40:00 for 600 KM, and 75:00 for 1000 KM.Additionally, riders must arrive at each checkpoint between the
opening and closing time for the checkpoint and calculated as follows:
Opening: 34 km / h (km 1 to 200); 32 km / h (km 201 to 400); 30 km / h
(km 401 to 600); 28 km / h (km 601 to 1000); commercial rounded by the
minute. Closing: 1 hour + 20 km / h (km 1 to 60); 15 km / h (km 61 to
600); 11.428 km / h (km 601 to 1000); commercial rounded by the
minute.
motoko
When I was in the Phillipines they went out as a team for the record with the peloton a stream of lead out men. The flat 200 was done in 5:56! Like ACP, Audax PH don't have a max speed rule.
https://audax.ph/content/files/uploads/978e8ab9-9753-4755-afd1-ce5da286a055.pdf
I'm not a huge fan of organisers publicising and celebrating course records or publishing result times, it makes it more like a sportif, but each culture develops its own and our view of audax doesn't necessarily need to be universal.
Saying it isn't a race, but then publishing results in order of finish time is a bit contradictory...