Re: Back to waiting in lines...

["Whitney Bass" <bass@bigsky.net>]

Well said.  However, it still doesn't hurt to be considerate of others in
certain situations.
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> From: guest@endurance.net
> To: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RC:  Back to waiting in lines...
> Date: Monday, January 31, 2000 11:57 PM
> 
> Nina Vasiliev rides4fun@hotmail.com
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Since, we really don't know how a rider is feeling that day,
>  they may think they have priority over us, 
> they may not be having a good ride, or sometimes we don't really
> know how long they have had to wait already,(at my first ride,
>  people kept stepping in front of us 25 milers since they were 50's, they
just pulled up and said they had priority.  But we
>  had been waiting for our turn for 20 minutes with pulses now in
>  the 30's...we were not happy with how we were being treated...)
>  Anyway, it seems to me that waiting our turn is a part of the
>  competition.  I know that it's frusrating sometimes, all the
>  things that can go wrong during competition.  But those things
>  are a part of the ride.  Those other people are a part of the
>  ride, a part of the factors which slow or speed us along. Lines
>  are one of the variables.  
> 
> So, I think we're stuck.  Waiting for our turn,is a part
>  of the competition. We have to take it as it comes. 
> Endurance requires skill in rising above the obsticles and
>  finishing well.  Not in trying to explain away why
>  we should be able to cut ahead of someone else's turn.
> 
> My 2 cents...
> 
> Nina Vasiliev
> Davis, CA
> 
> 
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