Re: National Championship Ride

["Steph Teeter" <step@fsr.com>]

Karen,

The NC format was decided at the mid-year board meeting
in July of '98. There wasn't alot of time to get all the details
worked out, assign the qualifier rides, and get the news to
the members via EN.  I'm sure we'll do it better next year
with more time to organize and publicize the event.

Since our original intent was to keep the qualifications minimal
to encourage attendance at this first championship ride it's possible
that we could make some exceptions. This is actually something
I wanted to discuss at the BOD meeting in February. In the  case
of the PS region, where limited entries prohibited riders from
entering and qualifying, maybe you could petition the competitions
committee with a request to attend the NC ride, citing another
100 miler as qualification criteria.

Basically - don't get too upset about this yet - let's play it out
this year, see if you can qualify in the West region, make notes
on what worked and didn't work about the new '99 NC
and we'll see if we can do it better next time. One option is
to allow competitors to qualify by top-tenning at *any* 100
or 50 mile ride. I actually think this is a better format ...I think.
Really need some feedback though ... the NC will only work
if it is embraced by the membership.

Steph

-----Original Message-----
From: DreamWeaver <karen@chaton.gardnerville.nv.us>
To: step@fsr.com <step@fsr.com>
Date: Sunday, January 17, 1999 10:35 PM
Subject: National Championship Ride


>> it shouldn't be prohibitive. To finish top ten in a weight division is
>>not difficult. But it does require some sort of planning and intent
>>on the part of the rider.
>
>Shouldn't be that difficult...that is...if you can get entered into one of
>the damn rides.  I'd like to plan.  If I could.  (still don't know what the
>W region 50 qualifier is....check out this post from a friend of
>mine)--btw, according to Terry we don't even know yet if the 50 and 100
>mile championship ride will be on the same day.  So even though you have
>got somebody that *would* like to participate in this event this year - I
>have effectively been excluded (but since Fire Mt. has about 35% of its
>entries in LD, it's okay...cuz we wouldn't want to exclude them--won't be
>long till they have their own national championship race).
>****
>>Karen :  More thoughts re: NCS.  I dug around in the Dec issue of EN and
>found the calendar listing for the FM50, which is shaded, and clearly says
>NCS in the ride title or name.    Then on P33 of Dec issue, there is an ad
>trying to enthuse riders for the new format for the NCS series.  I know we
>have 9 regions, but I only see 6 regions listed in this "qualifiying" list.
> I don't see anything listed for Pac South, nor Central, nor NorthEast
>regions.  Are they not part of this system?  Are they supposed to go out of
>their region to get to a qualifying ride?   The Dec issue with this ad says
>the West region 50 mile qualifing ride is yet to be determined.  But they
>apparently had determined that FM 50 was the 50 mile qualifying ride for
>Pac South, and this ad doesn't say squat about Pac South.  It looks like
>the right hand and left hand don't meet too often.  Then I go to the Jan
>issue, and the FM 50 is NOT SHADED, and the title says NOTHING about NCS in
>the title or name.  I  carefully am going thru the rest of the Jan issue
>now, and I find on p62 in Jan issue, an ad relating to the new "sponsors"
>AERC has found, and refers to the NCS, but with no detail.  Then again, on
>P7, there is a full page ad thanking Nat Horse Sports Found. for their
>support, again mentioning the NCS.  Nowhere in the Jan issue that I can
>find is there an ad, listing the NCS qualifying events and their dates and
>locations.  To further complicate things, in the Dec issue, P42, it lists
>the Osceola 25/50/100 in FLA as the SE qualifier, then in Jan issue, this
>entire race is shown as cancelled. There is one other thing I don't
>comprehend.  Is there a 50 mile NCS and a 100 mile NCS?  If so, then I am
>assuming that whatever distance NCS you are interested in, you must qualify
>in the appropriate distance, which precludes you from qualifying for the
>NCS 50 by going to the Washoe 100.
>