Re: RC: AERC Revenue/Expense (was: Happy New Year)

[Laney Humphrey <laneyh@mbay.net>]

BMcCrary27@aol.com wrote:

> " ALL of our members receive the
> Endurance News, but only a few receive year-end awards."

> Here's another way to look at it: ALL (presumably) of our members participate
> in rides but only a few receive year-end awards.  As a fairly active
> participant but never a top-tenner, I get more than a little tired of all the
> focus AERC puts on the top-10 finishers with never any reward or credit or
> acknowledgement given to those of us who also participate, racking up miles at
> a slower pace.  If AERC's motto, "to finish is to win," is to continue to be
> meaningful, I think even the top-tenners should get nothing more than their
> name in EN (maybe in slightly bigger print).  I don't like feeling I'm paying
> big bucks as part of my annual membership dues for awards I'll never win.  And
> I think the emphasis on awards takes away from the force of our motto, making
> endurance like all the other prize-focused sports.

>     As for EN, I've said before that I think AERC is missing the boat in not
> becoming a source of information about distance sport.  I think EN should
> either be produced professionally and put on a money-making basis (i.e, made
> appealing to a larger audience than just the membership) or should be taken
> back to being nothing more than a report of official ride results.  Why not set
> up a publishing/marketing branch with the mission of disseminating the
> wonderful information being produced by AERC members (& paying them for it too)
> but also generating income for AERC?

Laney


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