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Re: [RC] long /limited distance - Barbara McCraryI sincerely hope you are joking about this, because if you aren't and ride managers have to be absolutely accurate in having exactly 50 miles at the least, then there may suddenly be many less ride managers around than there are now. In other words, ride managers have enough to do without measuring their trail by the foot. We all do the best we can...... Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Latiolais" <latiolp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [RC] long /limited distance So THAT means (following David's logic) that a 50 mile ride by definition must be OVER fifty miles,...because, as a practical matter, it must be measured with a certain limit on the level of accuracy. Hence you must always be over and round down to 50 miles, to insure that it is AT LEAST fifty miles. Using a standard GPS, I think the level of accuracy is usually around 24 feet. So that would mean that a 50 mile ride would have to be measured as AT LEAST 50 miles plus 25 ft to guarantee that it was an official fifty mile ride. -Paul On Wednesday, May 26, 2004, at 07:17 AM, <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:That is an interesting point. The quantization for distance for an endurance rides is defined in the rules to be 5 miles. Therefore one could eaisly argue and technically be correct that anything from 47.50000000000001 to 52.499999999999999999 is in fact a 50 mile ride. I expect that is not what the people that wrote the rule meant but that is what it means.No time to go dig through and find the exact verbiage this morning, but am pretty sure that as Barbara stated, the rules specifically address the rounding issue and state that a 50 must still be at least 50, and that rounding only applies to the increments over 50, so that they are sanctioned to the nearest 5 miles. In any event, taken all together, that is the gist of it. Heidi ============================================================ You don't have to be a 100-mile rider or a multi-day rider to be an endurance rider, but if you want to experience the finest challenges our sport has to offer, you need to do both of those. ~ Joe Long ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ======================================================================================================================== Personally, I shouldn't give a s--- where the other people on the course are, and if I find myself starting to concern myself over this, I remind myself that this is the first step on the road to overriding my horse and tell myself to "knock it off!" :) ~ Kat Swigart ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================ ============================================================ One would think that logic would prevail. But then, if logic did prevail, men would ride sidesaddle. ~ Bob Morris ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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