Re: RC: Re: RE: Endurance as a team sport

["Truman Prevatt, PhD" <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

It requires one more important ingredient, a coach (Chief d'Equip) to develop
the strategy, communicate it to the team members, select the team from the squad
that can best carry out the strategy, manage the ride and if necessary grow a
set of fangs to insure the strategy is followed.

I hear that Bobby Knight is unemployed. Maybe we could teach him horses and
endurance riding and make him our next Chief d'Equip. He sure is good at
developing team play and he does know how to grow a set of fangs.

T

Michael or Susie Jones wrote:

> You're right.  Riding as a team requires a much different strategy than
> riding "just for yourself."  What most USA riders seem to do (and I'm
> referring to PAC rides as well as WEC rides) is try to "have their cake and
> eat it too" - they'd like to get a team medal, but even the team members get
> caught up in going for individual medals.  (And I'm not saying that a team
> member shouldn't go for an individual medal, I'm just saying that perhaps he
> shouldn't go for an individual medal at the expense of the team.)
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