Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Shortage of Multi-Days in SE

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:44:03 -0500, Truman Prevatt
<tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...
>When I ran the FL Classic in '96 we decided to do a two day 100 ( this 
>was back when the ROC was still going and a 2 day 100 could be used to 
>qualify). Since you are also running two days you can have a 50 each 
>day. The difference between doing a two day 100 and a 50 each day is the 
>100 is sanctioned for 100 miles and if you get pulled on the second day 
>with 5 miles to go you get no credit.

>I noticed then that it didn't seem to be as popular a format as I had 
>thought it would be. This was the first time this format had been tried 
>in the SE. Dee Meyer stuck with that format for '97 for the Classic, but 
>went to a one day 100/50/LD format for '98.  We (Pat Thomas and I ) 
>started the Goethe Challenge as a 2 day 100 in '97 and again tried the 
>format in '98, Goethe went to a one day format (100/50/LD) in '99.

Not quite ... we tried the two-day-100 format in Bankhead Forest in
Alabama in the 1980's, with the Black Warrior rides.  We had the same
result:  people didn't want to risk entering the two-day 100 where
getting pulled on day 2 meant no miles, when they had the option of
entering two independent 50-mile one-day rides.  So the two-day event
was dropped, and we kept the 50/50.





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