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Steph:

This post made me look for your ride on AERC (also crewless; some say 
clueless), but couldn't find it.

Would you post the info (date, location) here for us?

Thanks!
Dabney
(& Kowyhee--with a name like that--I should be entered in the Owyhee!)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steph Teeter" <stephteeter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 2:55 PM
Subject: RE: [RC] 100's - FEI


> I have to agree with some of you that FEI can make it less fun, more
> stressful, etc. (as a rider and as a ride manager!) It helps for the RM to
> have a done a couple, and it really makes a difference to have staff (FEI
> vets, judges, stewards, TD's) that works well together, and keeps things
> friendly and low key. Having an overzealous steward can be a bit of a
> nuisance. It's a balancing act for the most part.
>
> Karen - to answer your questions:
>
> > > Now I have questions for you Steph. ;)  How hard would it be to do
> your May 100 without a crew? >>
>
> Shoudn't be a problem. I'm still fine tuning the loops but there won't be 
> a
> 'designated crewing area' - you can go wherever you want after you see the
> vet. We've changed the vetting area in camp so it's right next to the
> parking area now, which makes it easier to just go to your own trailer for
> holds. There will be a 50 mile loop though with one out-vet check which 
> you
> will use twice. So you'll need to send stuff out, but we'll take stuff out
> for folks that don't have a crew.
>
> > > Can we just go in and get our pulse and then go pull our tack and come
> back
> to vet (without having to have an argument)? >>
>
> Good question. I don't know why not... RM's would have to set the pulse 
> gate
> traffic flow up to allow that. But, we (Arabian Nights, Owyhee 100) are
> doing this a little different now - riders go directly to the vets after
> entering the 'pulse gate' rather than having pulse-takers as an 
> intermediate
> step. With a lot of vets this is possible, and in the event that you enter
> the pulse gate but a vet isn't available your horse can eat while waiting,
> and you are not losing any time while you wait.
>
> > > How many vetchecks do you require tack off >>- Tack/no-tack is pretty 
> > > much
> up to the head-vet (Mike Foss is our head vet), with input from ride
> managers, etc. I don't know the answer to this yet, but my guess is that
> most of the checks will be tack-off.
>
> > > how many vetchecks, out of and in camp are there>>
> Probably (still deciding) the first 2 holds will be out (over by the 
> river)
> and the last 3 will be in camp.
>
> > > , and how many hours/mins. of hold times do you have? >> probably 30, 50,
> 60, 50, 30 - might change according to weather. I like to give pretty long
> holds in general. And this will be close to the summer solstice, lots of
> daylight, and a pretty easy course, nobody should be worried about going
> overtime.
>
> > > I would guess that most FEI riders have crews, whereas a lot of regular
> AERC
> riders don't, and that is where part of trying to get thru those
> types of rides becomes difficult.>>
>
> I understand - and will really try to encourage 'regular' AERC riders, 
> first
> time 100's, etc - by making it as easy as possible w/o crew.
>
> Keep the suggestions coming - we can make this work.
>
> Plus I'm thinking of sanctioning this as an elevator ride :))) (50's and
> 100's will start together at 5:30 AM....)
>
> Steph
>
>
>
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