Re: RC: Red Rock Ride "Pamnetus"

[DreamWeaver <dreamweaver@gbis.com>]

At 12:51 PM 02/01/2001 -0500, BMcCrary27@aol.com wrote:
>  I think I'm a little annoyed that you have made a point to Carol that her
>ride is on the same date as some other rides and that it's "not a good
>thing".

Well, if people don't speak up then we will continue to lose more rides to 
do problems like this.  It really is not a good thing.

The last year we did the Gardnerville ride, our SAR group voted not to 
continue to do the ride because it was not profitable.  A mistake was made 
in the sanctioning of another ride (the Mt. Lassen ride) on the same date, 
and caused us to lose enough entries to make the ride not profitable. (both 
rides attendance were down)   If not for that mistake, they may have voted 
to continue to do the ride.  Those two rides (Gardnerville and Mt. Lassen) 
are a considerable distance.  Carol's new ride and Potato's are _much much_ 
closer together and if somebody is going to go thru all the effort and work 
of doing a new ride they should have every opportunity to succeed.  Carol 
is new to RM and may not understand that the difference in only 20 entries 
can make or break a ride.

>is good.  And besides, if you have a solution to the problem, let's hear it.

Why not sanction it the same weekend as Tevis or Swanton?  Then she 
wouldn't be competing for all the 50 mile riders.

Carol knows I am not trying to be discouraging and knows I support her and 
Steve's efforts.  I thought it was a great idea for them to do a ride. I 
just don't want to have them get discouraged if they don't get very many 
entries.  I want them to be successful.

Next summer several riders (in fact, a large portion of the people who were 
in last years point standings) are going to be gone on the 2001 XP, which 
will reduce attendance to the rides anyway.  Isn't it better for people to 
know what they are up against?

Karen