RE: [RC] Finish Line question for LD Riders - McGann, Barb
Yes, it does happen. Have seen it happen many times and this last year it
happened to me. Here's the scenario: Soldier Mtn in Idaho. LD is a 30
consisting of one 15 mile loop that you do twice (over a HUGE mountain each
time). Dot Wiggins, super experienced rider on a young horse, myself,
extremely experienced, but packing broken ribs so we're doing the 30. The
first time over, we're trying to pace ourselves conservatively...takes 3
hours for the loop. Now a 30 minute hold. So that's 3:30 out of 6:30 gone
(since its a 30 miler). We know we have to pick up the pace some to make it
over the mountain the second time in 3:00 flat. And we do, except that we
have a couple of problems (like falling off). Now we're 3 miles from camp
with less than 15 minutes! Here's the choice (both of us have horses that
recover nicely): (1) Cruise on into camp at a medium trot and end up over
time, so it won't matter whether we recover or not. Or, (2) we can run like
hell the last 3 miles, and have 4 to 5 minutes for the pulse to come down.
Guess which one we chose??
Barb McGann, AERC # 840
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From: Rides 2 Far [mailto:rides2far@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 5:46 PM
To: steph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC] Finish Line question for LD Riders
> The original rationale for the proposed change was to find a way to >
allow LD> competitors 6 hours to complete the event, but not disqualify
riders > that> finished the physical course in 6 hours, and took an
additional
> amount of> time to reach pulse criteria.
I'm curious as to whether this scenario has occured. Seems to me that
most horses that take the maximum amount of time tend to come in at about
44. However, at rides where the official finish line is a ways from camp
I can see an opportunity for confusion. I'd hate to see the reporting of
time changed for the front runners though. Can we not just add a clause
that a horse would not be judged "over time" so long as it crossed the
physical finish line within 6 hrs?
Angie
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