Re: RC: An idea for LD rides

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

If LDs & 50s were started at the same times there could be a pile up at
the first vet check if there's a ton of riders entered - but it would be
a pileup of racers, not slow riders.  Seems to me the slower riders
would trickle in, regardless of whether they were LDs or 50s.  No matter
which kind of a race you had (combined distances or single distance) but
the ride was composed of mostly racer riders, you'd get a pileup in the
vet check anyway, so I see the problem as being related to the number of
riders of the same speed (generally racers if it's the first check) that
hit a check at once, not what distance they're ultimately going.  Maybe
there should be two ride start times but combined distances - you choose
to start the racer start time (first off the line) or the pacer start
time (start half an hour or more later).  Lif

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