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Re: [RC] Fw: [RC] DAL Election / Weight Divisions!! - Barbara McCraryThat's a very good point, and one we addressed years ago on the BOD. At that time, we decided not to get too worked up about it, and if you're talking FAIR, it isn't. But as wiser minds have often said, "LIFE isn't fair." My personal preference would be to drop weight divisions all together and go back to one national champion and one regional champion, based on accumulated points. It's become too complicated.... Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn Kinsky" <lkinsky@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 9:48 AM Subject: RE: [RC] Fw: [RC] DAL Election / Weight Divisions!! I also notice when I'm riding that a lot of guys who I think MIGHT be my HW competition are actually MWs--and the day I judged for BC, two riders who are MWs actually outweighed me, because they WERE carrying lots of "stuff." My hat is off to those folks who choose not to weigh with all their "stuff" in order to meet a weight division cut-off. (Heck, I WISH I didn't weigh that much without my "stuff.") They are being honest about the fact that at some point on any given ride, their horse might well NOT be carrying HW weight, even if he does part of the time. (I know hubby's horse carries HW weight when we add Easyboots, full water bottles, camera bag, a winter jacket, etc.--but since he doesn't carry that much "stuff" all the time, it would be less than honest of us to register hubby as a HW.)The issue gets further confounded in that the AERC rules don't even require that the horse carry the rider (unlike CTR where the rider has to be mounted any time they make forward motion along the trail). Five pounds one way or the other in rider weight doesn't make much difference if the rider is tailing up the hills, running down them, and jogging alongside in between for maybe half the ride. -- Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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