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if you're really going to fix it, dump the points.  make it mileage based.

but this IS a trivial issue which effects <<<1% of the members of AERC.

there are bigger fish on the table and they're smelling pretty bad lately.

johnt

At 07:39 AM 3/10/2003, Heidi Smith wrote:

> > If I ride 50s and Steph rides 100s and we every event we do we do
> together,
> > and we do 10 events, they she will have 1000 miles and I will have 500. If
> > she then does PanAM, which DOESN'T have a 50, then I'd have < 1/2 her
> miles
> > and we would not be elegible for consideration for any placing in the
> > husband/wife award. I'd have to ride another 50 or she'd have to not do
> PanAm.
>
> John, this is why I always liked the concept of simply counting all the
> rides where they ride at the same event, regardless of mileage.  The point
> of the award, to me, is that the husband and wife actually go out and do
> rides together, whether they ride together or not.  (And yes, being married
> myself, this is one that interests me personally--and I see no reason for
> rides to count that I might do while my husband is off in Denmark, not that
> we've ridden enough in the past few years to even be in consideration for
> such an award.)  This way, there is no problem with record-keeping,
> either--did they both do this ride?  Then bang! this one counts.  Did one of
> them not do this ride?  Then no miles count toward husband/wife award.  If
> you ride 50's and your wife rides 100's, whatever you do at the same event
> counts--no need to keep track of mileage ratios.  If she goes on and rides
> every weekend and leaves you home sometimes to do chores, no big deal--those
> miles just don't count, because husband and wife were not riding at the same
> ride.  Simple.  So the husband and wife that earn the most points by doing
> the sport together are rewarded.  Isn't that what it's all about??
>
> I sure wish the BoD would look at this as a solution, as I think it is the
> easiest, fairest, and most in keeping with the spirit of the award.
>
> Heidi

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