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Re: [RC] Husband and Wife Team Award - Joe LongOn Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:27:41 -0700, "Heidi Smith" <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 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. I was also on the BoD at that time, and my understanding of this differs. Prorating the points by either the first, last, or best mileage was not an option, and not intended to be done. The idea was to keep it simple and straightforward: the only couples considered for the award were those who both rode enough so that each spouse rode at least one-third of their total miles. The concept was to honor a husband/wife team who were both active riders throughout the season, and who both contributed substantially to their total points, while keeping a simple format. I can't say for certain if prorating the points was discussed -- my best recollection was that it came up, but was quickly dropped with little discussion -- but my memory of those meetings is not comprehensive. However, if that was the intent the rule would have had to have specified how the proration was to be done. "Best" miles is too vague -- just one of the difficulties with that is that twice the shorter miles is unlikely to be a number that equals a specific set of the rides completed by the other spouse (we have too many 55, 60, 65 mile rides for that). So if we intended to do as Heidi suggests, how would it be done? Take the group of highest-scoring rides that add up to equal or less than that magic number? Take just a fraction of the points of the next ride, that would go over the magic number? All of those issues would have had to have been addressed and specified. As they will have to be addressed and specified if the BoD changes the award now. -- Joe Long jlong@xxxxxxxx http://www.rnbw.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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