Ridecamp: [RC] The Way We Win

While I was initially intrigued by Matthew's ideas when he explained
them to me, I'm not sure they would really work the way he intended them
to.  He said it is a matter of the rewards.  I rode the Old Dominion
100, and I finished 3rd, trotting in 7 seconds behind the leader.  I was
quite pleased by my finish, but I think that perhaps Matthew set the
standards a bit high, for while we finished at 11:30, not a bad time, no
one would have received a gold.  Had such a system been in place I may
have been tempted to try to ride even faster in order to be in the gold
category.  Now I'm not saying that would be a good idea, or the best
stewardship of my horse, but the human side of me might have set that as
a goal for myself.  So while I feel there is some merit in his ideas and
in this discussion, the standards were set very high, and might have led
some of us astray if that was how the competition was actually being
run, instead of just a trial model.

Anna Wolfe



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