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I don't get the cheating thing.  Why cheat? Are the awards that worth  
that much?  Just what I need, another warm-up blanket.

Don't get me wrong; I appreciate the awards, particularly if they have 
the particular award embroidered on them.  I even get annoyed when the 
completion award does not have the ride written on it. (BTW, please 
bring back the t-shirts).

To me, the point is actually doing well in the competition.  If you 
cheat, you did not win by competing, you won by cheating.  The award is 
just the validation.  If you cheat, it's a lie.

Am I just naive?

-Paul L.

On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 02:07 PM, David LeBlanc wrote:

> Roger Rittenhouse said:
>
> > Well since you asked, yes-  a very few 'over bearing make your own
> >   rules as we go along' RM have indeed said NO GPS on his rides?
>
>
> I haven't seen any of those up here. I hope they're few and far 
> between.
>
> > Go
> >   figure.. a tool that helps the rider pace and may help them to keep
> >   speed down  and not get lost .. but then there just MAY be
> > some one with
> >   the topo map that would CHEAT  OH-NO :))  and cut trail - image
> >   that??
>
> I have seen rides that don't distribute maps because it is too easy to 
> cut
> trail. Seems like even if you did have a map, you'd need to know where 
> the
> trail goes to know where to cut. IMHO, if it is that easy to cut 
> trail, the
> RM ought to put a volunteer out to "assist" people in going the right
> direction.
>
> Personally, I think honest people are going to stay on trail (assuming 
> they
> can find it <g>), GPS or not, and dishonest people will find ways to be
> dishonest. There's lots of situations where it's nice to remove 
> temptation,
> but this isn't one of them.
>
> I wish I'd had one running when I managed to turn a 25 into a 40 - I'd 
> have
> figured out a lot sooner that I was going the wrong way. Being the 
> geeky
> sort, I'd also like to be able to go home and upload the track into my 
> topo
> map and see just how much elevation change there was to better 
> understand
> the horse's conditioning and think about how I might want to do the 
> ride
> next time.
>
>
>
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