Ridecamp: Re: [RC] LD again

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 11:04:46 -0700, Heather Saunders
<saunders03@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Steph, I had a similar thing happen to me this weekend at the Oakland
>Hills ride. I was doing 25 miles and was waiting to vet out before
>continuing on to the final loop and I was bumped for some 50's. I was
>told "your only doing 25 miles and not for time, so you go take care of
>your horse and come back later"!! I was appalled. The vet hold was only
>15 minutes and by the time you got through just waiting in line, your
>time was up.
> I understand allowing people to go ahead of me if I was finished, but I
>still had another loop to do.  This was my second ride and my horses
>first. I felt like a second class citizen.  I would like to continue to
>do more 25's, but personally I feel the need to get into the 50 class so
>people will take me and my horse more seriously....
>Heather 

I'm sorry you were appalled, but if you are doing the 50 mile ride on
a 50/100 and the vet check gets backed up, you may be asked to wait
until the 100's get checked.  Ideally, this should not have to happen,
but if a vet check gets backed up to where riders are in jeopardy of
missing their out times, IMO those going the longest distance should
get priority.  They go through the greatest number of vet checks.  The
exception would be the rare case where a rider going the longer
distance has already finished and the rider in the shorter distance
who is ahead of him in line is returning to the trail.  Then the
returning rider should not get bumped.



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