Re: RC: LDs and 50's

["Truman Prevatt, Ph.D." <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

Now Howard, go back and read your post about the Far Out Forest. LDers
have it pretty dog gone good. They get to sleep in. They get to tack up
in the daylight and most are still finished by lunch!

If you remember at the FOF, the LD's were started with the 100's in the
dark and the 50's got to sleep in, tack up in the daylight and have a
more relaxed start. Boy I have never heard so many LDer whinning in my
life. Most were whinning about those idoit 50's catching up and running
them into the woods!

There is really no real good way I can think of to the handle this.
There are racers and turtles in both distances and the racers will catch
up and pass the turtles. Seems that separating the starts by an hour
works pretty well in keeping them apart on the trail. One other
situtation to explor would be to start them at the same time and run
them different loops first. Of course that would have maximum impact on
the vets.  At Hahira last Nov, the LDs were started 90 minutes behind.
The front running 50's actually caught the turtle LDs in the last 5
miles. 

The the long run a bit of courtesy and common sense has to be part of
the answer.

Cheers
Truman

Howard4567@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 5/4/00 10:29:26 AM !!!First Boot!!!, rides2far@juno.com
> writes:
> 
> << No LD's passed me that day, but a few sure blew me off the
>  trail at Hahira.  Santini and I decided to just take to the woods till
>  the 10 or so front runners had charged by.
>   >>
> 
> I think I actually have a solution to the mixing of 25's and 50's.  What if
> the LDs started 90 minutes sooner than the 50's?  What a concept!  My guess
> is it would eliminate the gaggle at the vet checks cause the 25's would be
> through the first vet check by the time the 50's came in from their first
> loop.
> 
> The 25's wouldn't be done but most of them should be on their second and
> final loop.  With the longer daylight hours now I think something like this
> should be considered at the larger rides.  Don't you think it might be a good
> idea?
> 
> cya,
> Howard
>
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