Re: [RC] Ride time v. Elapsed Time - Truman Prevatt
It would also be an interesting numbers to look at, however, they are
not in the DB. Along with the amount of hold time the distribution of
the hold time would be of interest, e.g. 3 40 minute holds in a 50
compared to two one hour holds, etc. The interesting thing is that
there are fields in the DB for hold times, number of checks, etc. but
they are all blank. In general this information is not supplied by the
RM's. It would be very useful to have such data and would go a long way
in putting together a better picture.
SERA is collecting this information on our rides and hopefully in the
future we can see what the correlations are with ride time - at least
for SE rides. I suspect, however, that the speed on trail will turn out
to be the deciding factor in most cases - which is what ride time
defines. As far as amount and distribution of hold time, I suspect that
this will be more correlated with pulls than speeds. But we won't know
until we have the data.
Truman
k s swigart wrote:
Truman said:
The ride times are what is listed in the AERC results not competition
times.
Most 25's have a 20 to 40 minute hold time which gives 5:20 to 5:30 of
ride time
available to finish a ride. My mare could (and has ) walked that.
This is, in fact, probably one of the problems with your analysis. You are
doing the calculations based on "ride time" rather than total elapsed time.
Only an idiot would think that time spent resting in the middle of an effort
should not be included in any calculations of average speed.
