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    Re: [RC] musings re "the good old days" - Heidi Smith


    > I wrote an article once making fun of some of the old stats...to give you
    > the gist of it...don't think some of those 50 milers were over 40...or
    > 35.  Remember one had a win time of something like 2 1/2 hours.  The
    > first course I ever did varied considerably in length the first several
    > times I did it.  I remember when the record holder commented something
    > like, "The winner took 4:15? *I* won this ride in 3 1/2 hours" and
    > someone else said, "Yeah but it was 10 miles shorter that year"  GPS sort
    > of stopped some of that.
    
    While that was an issue sometimes (and occasionally still is, alas...), I
    know that many of the courses that had some phenomenal times were pretty
    darn accurate on their mileage.  I can remember Darla Westlake doing a sub-3
    50 on RT Muffin and coming in with her eyes as big as saucers, saying she
    had NEVER ridden that fast for so far in her life--and coming from a rider
    like that, it is believable.  I rode the course myself in subsequent years,
    and did not feel it was short.  The weather conditions were perfect, the
    footing was perfect--just one of those ideal days.  We are more often
    blessed with low humidity and coolish days in the NW, which is surely a
    factor in posting some of those fast times.
    
    Heidi
    
    
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