Re: [RC] Husband and Wife Team Award - Heidi Smith
>Joe,
>You probably know the
history of how we got to requirements better than anyone. The current rule
evolved because of perceived abuses, i.e. wife would ride so many miles that no
other "husband/wife" team beat them and then the husband does a 50 or two and
they nail it down.
I'm not Joe, but I can speak to the original intent
of the BoD when this award was changed to add a criterion for the spouse with
lesser miles, as I was on the BoD at the time. It was never the
intent to DQ a couple from being in competition, but rather to make it so that
both parties had to contribute to the points/miles. The original intent
was that the spouse riding the least had to have at least half as much mileage
as the other one. So--a couple could ride as many rides, but one do 100's
and one do 50's, or one spouse could do half as many rides. But the
thought was that if, say, one spouse had 200 miles and the other spouse had 1000
miles, then only the best 400 miles from the latter would count. It wasn't
intended to DQ such a couple from competition, but rather to ensure that they
didn't beat a couple who rode a lot more rides together. So maybe a couple
like that might place, but they wouldn't beat a couple that rode the same
mileage but each did 600 miles. Just an example.
