Re: AERC completion time rule- feedback wanted

["katie ruckel" <ruck@internetwis.com>]

	I realize I'm new (started in 1990) so I should be quiet because I don't
know all the history behind this. However, I feel that the ONLY REASON a
ride manager should allow more time is if a rider stops to help someone in
trouble. One of the great things about our sport is the willingness to
support one another even in the heat of competition. If we penalize a rider
for helping someone we will turn this into a much less "user friendly" and
thus a much more cutthroat sport. Unfair things -weather and other acts of
God and man - happen. But the idea that we would have a rule that might
prevent someone from getting aid or penalize the rider giving aid is
ludicrous!