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RE: [RC] 30 minutes - not workable for many rides. - heidi

Nope, maybe I didn't explain it well enough.  Ride management figures that it takes on average 10 minutes to get from the finish line to camp at a walk.  So you cross the line in first place at 4:45, and the timer puts down 4:55 as your time.  The rider behind you crosses the line at 4:47, so the timer puts down 4:57 on her card.  So if she passes you on the walk back to camp, nothing has changed.
 
I don't believe any of our rules address such an issue--but they do say that the 50-miler will be at least 50 miles long (after that, you round to the nearest 5 miles)--and in our case, we needed that half-mile back to camp to make the trail 50 miles long anyway.
 
We never had any complaints when we did that.
 
Heidi


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [RC]   30 minutes - not workable for many rides.
From: rides2far@xxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, January 07, 2007 8:30 am
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

>>>\the walk back to camp is still a part of the ride time.  So, they've
factored in the amount of time it takes to walk a horse the distance to
camp, and have added that to the ride time.  So--the time still starts
roughly when they reach camp anyway.
>>>> There ARE solutions to such problems, if one is willing to be
creative.

Handy, but is that legal? So, you could be 1st with a time of 5:00 and I
could be 2nd with a time of 4:50 if I walk back to camp faster?

Angie


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