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Re: [RC] Husband and Wife Team Award - Heidi SmithThe 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. Well, certainly it was to honor couples in which both rode. But I don't think it was ever the intent to DQ couples where one rode and the other rode A LOT. 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? Well, it was discussed, quite a bit, and like you, my memory is not entirely comprehensive, either. But I do recall discussion to the effect that if spouse A rode 200 miles, then 400 miles of the more than that ridden by spouse B would count. Seems clear that since the award is for points, it would be the 400 that earned the most points. Quite frankly, the solution I liked best at the time was that both husband and wife had to ride at the same event in order to earn points, but not necessarily the same distance. It seemed that that was more in keeping with the concept of the award--that a husband and wife are out there doing the sport together. But I do distinctly recall that version being shot down by the "what if" scenario that spouses were doing endurance together and sometimes shared a horse and crewed for each other at alternate rides. And while I see a lot of spouses crewing, I have yet to see any couple do much in terms of accruing any sort of husband/wife points with such a fashion, and I still don't think it is realistic. I still like the idea that they both have to be entered at the same events to earn points. Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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