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> One thing I found interesting. The rules do not state that an elevated
> rider must do the same trails/same loops in the same order as the
> riders that started out in the longer distance. Is that in another
> document? Since the elevated rider is not riding for placement in the
> longer distance, does it really matter if they do the exact same loops
> as the original longer distance riders?
>
> April
> Nashville, TN

I would take . . . .

> held over the same course at the same time


. . . . to mean that both distances are doing the same loops in the 
early part of the ride, with the longer distance just doing extra 
loops after the shorter distance is completed.  I've been on LDs 
where we completed at lunch back at camp and then the 50s went out 
and did another 25 after lunch -- those rides could easily convert to 
elevators.  But at Cinquenta Anos we had the 25s on an almost totally 
different trail from the 50s (even though they had common vet checks, 
all away from the finish) -- that ride couldn't have functioned as an 
elevator ride.   The course needs to be planned to allow elevating 
riders to join the flow of the longer distance seamlessly.

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Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA
http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/

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