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The vet card should not be for anything more than
communication from vet to vet at the vet checks. Never-never-never trust
important information to the vet card relative to finish times or BC--always
have it on a master sheet somewhere else. The timer should have a time
sheet that is the official sheet, and what goes on the vet card should be for
the riders' and vets' convenience. Likewise with BC--all BC scoring should
go on a master worksheet, and if necessary, assign a secretary to the vet for BC
to record on that master sheet. Ride results are then a piece of cake, and
riders can keep their vet cards. I can't even begin to imagine running a
ride and getting any meaningful information for results off of the vet
cards....
At each vet check, our timers always
had a master list of riders and a blank legal pad--they keep time on
the blank pad by the order in which riders come in, and can check them off of
the master list as they come in so that they know who is still out. Same
thing at the finish, and when the ride is over, it is a simple matter to just
cross out anyone who was pulled post-finish by the vets, and just list the rest
of them in order of finish. To make it easy, I used to go down the
official time sheet and arrange the entry blanks so that they were in order
of finish, and just write the ride times at the tops--then I can just go through
the stack of entries, arranged in completion order, and it only takes several
minutes to do the results. Usually had the official forms finished in
time for the awards.
The only vet cards we kept were for pulled
riders--and I had my vets just jot the pull code on them, so I could transfer
the pull code to the top of the entry blank for that rider and then give the
card back. Then the entries for the pulled riders were put on the bottom
of the stack to add to the result forms at the end, following all the
completions. Easy as pie!
Heidi
PS: Most mushed-up rider card I ever saw was
one that spent a loop in a fanny pack on a warm day with an overripe
banana.....
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 10:33
PM
Subject: [RC] RM question
We are busy putting together our ride results from the
Wolverine. Quite a hairy job. Well, it wouldn't be so hairy if
people provided all the info asked for on the entry form and IF THEY TOOK CARE
OF THEIR VET CARD. This is my question...if a rider loses their card or
soaks it beyond any hope of readability, what are my options as a ride
manager? Can I give them just a completion? DQ them
altogether? Not allow them to stand for BC if they top ten? We
muddled through these problems and we didn't have that many riders but I can
see if we had too many more and if this problem intensified, it could be
ridiculous. Where do I draw the line? Just wondering what other
RMs would do or not do in this case. THANKS for your thoughts and
ideas.
Maggie
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