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Re: [RC] Endurance Reporting - rides2farI think webcasting at least for me is something we're kinda figuring out on the fly. The first time I did it for Endurance.net I did not ride. Big difference. I also had 3 other family members working the entire time. We attempted that day to "call the race" in very real time. We even managed to record their arrival times and compare them to their out times to see which horses were recovering faster, etc. That was a LOT of work. I would, however, like to have seen more information on otherriders and not just the top 10 or those well known in the endurance world. We tried to go farther down than top 10 and here's the problem. The timers simply have the horse's numbers. You go down through there thinking you see what order they're in and you start reporting it in that order, then you say, "Wait, I know they're not top 10" and realize that horse you just reported is on an earlier loop. The farther into the ride you get, the more overlapped the loops are. You may bother the timer by lurking over their shoulder writing down numbers only to find out that in the 10 numbers you recorded 3 are on the latest loop, 6 are on the loop that was before that and one is on the loop 2 loops behind the winners. It's impossible to know which are on which without getting your hands on their card or asking them personally. On a point to point like OD or Tevis is might be somewhat more possible, but if you hung around long enough to see the last horses arrive you'd be hopelessly behind the leaders. It's just the nature of the game that top 10 reporting is about all we can handle. We did make a point though of recording all pulls so at least people would know if their rider was still in it. On the bios, I sent out a request to every entry in the 100 (not just the well known or fast). If they responded, I put them up. It was pretty time consuming with only the ones who did respond. If all the entries had responded I'd have probably been swamped. The bios were my idea and not part of the original deal with John but I thought it would be interesting. My personal motive was for people in the 50's to read about these horses in the 100 and hopefully decide this is something their horse *could* do. There's lots of things I'd love to do if time was not a factor, including taking photos of every horse on the place. :-) What frustrated me most about riding/reporting was that we only saw those who were in the vet check when we were. The rain was such a hindrance and poor Bill was so stretched thin trying to crew *and* keep up with reporting that it was difficult. When we get down to it, all John has really asked for is photos, results, and a bit before and after. Anything we manage to get in *during* the competition is gravy. The cell phone reception at OD will be *very* spotty at best and there may be no reports during the ride itself if we can't get a way out, but we're going to try! :-) I can remember when to find out who won the ROC we had to wait for it to come out in Trailblazer or Endurance News 2 months later! I guess a few hours isn't the end of the world but we're going to try to beat that. OD will be an extra day's drive home since we'll probably take close to the entire 24 hrs. to do it, then have to stay till Mon to drive home. If I can get a copy of the finishing order of all the distances, I'll be happy to phone it in to someone with Verizon (so I can talk for free) if they want to type it all in...or I guess John can put it on an audio feed again if ya'll want to listen to me read the whole thing. >g< Angie Angie McGhee http://www.lightersideofendurance.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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