Back in November 2022 Fulgaz started maintaining a leaderboard of the ride count for each of my weekly challenge rides.
There have been a couple of hiccups alonmg the way which is shown by a couple of early weeks have very low totals.
The Hilltop Villages ride did have the highest number but it already had several hundred rides before the challenge started and also the Trough of Bowland has an artificially high number because it was also included in the LEJOG challenge.
Overall I am very happy with the numbers although it is hard to tell which rides will be the most popular. As an example the Col de Jambaz ride was a straight up climb and yet had over 500 participants.
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