Fwd: AERC completion time rule - feedback wanted

[CMKSAGEHIL <CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com>]

My last forward worked, so I'll try it again--might learn this darned computer
biz yet...

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• To: step@fsr.com
• Subject: Re: AERC completion time rule - feedback wanted
• From: CMKSAGEHIL <CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com>
• Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 17:02:24 EST
• Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com)

Hi, Steph--

I am not yet sufficiently adept at this to figure out how to get my already-
sent mail sent again somewhere else, but I would not mind sharing my post with
the list.  Feel free to do so. 

I disagree that the bottom end is chopped out of the bell curve on the tough
rides--a walk is a walk is a walk, and terrain does not make the slow horses
appreciably slower in my experience.  I will relate one incident in which I
was the rider--and this did not have anything to do with time limits, as we
had 4 or 5 hours to spare--at Santiam one year, Junior and I went over Cash
Mountain in the dark in 2 hrs and 10 minutes--that stretch is 12 miles, so we
averaged better than 5 mph in the dark at the end of a moderatly tough
100-miler AT A WALK!  Sorry, I stick by my guns, even on the "hard" rides.  I
have won rides with those sorts of winning times (Fossil Bowl--I think my
winning time was 8 hrs 40 min riding time, and Myrtle Creek Challenge--winning
time 7:30 or so) and have noticed that the "slow" riders are bunched up right
behind me.  You can post this with my other one if you want, but I will send
it without a forward to Ridecamp, so you can add it after and it won't confuse
people by getting out of sequence.

Heidi

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