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Re: [RC] Rider Cards - heidiIn NATRC riding the vet secretary keeps the vet cards in a notebook. The vet writes his notes on that card. It stays clean and neat and the rider does not have to carry it around and then at the end of the ride, the hard copy goes to the rider and the NCR copy goes to management. In CTR, the riders are all going roughly the same speed, and not particularly fast, so when the secretary with the cards is done, he/she can drive to the next check and get there ahead of the horses. I would challenge any vet secretary to do this past VC1 at an endurance ride, particularly if there are both extremely fit front runners and folks who like to use their entire ride time... Personally, when managing rides, I NEVER used the rider card for ANY "official" data (ride times, etc.) and only refered to those for pulled riders long enough to get the pull code recorded. We gave all completed riders back their cards at their completion exam, and the pulled riders' cards were available by awards. WAAAY simpler than trying to mail them back! Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks, I guess. (Same thing with pre-entries--much as I admire those really "organized" managers, I always found myself busy doing trail stuff, awards, etc. before the rides--the LAST thing I wanted was a bunch of paperwork. Many of our NW riders DO print down the generic PNER entry form off the web site, but even so, just having a table with entries and an efficient ride secretary made check-in a breeze, even with very large entries. And I can't even BEGIN to imagine the hassle of trying to keep track of refunds--much prefer to just not have the checks in the first place. If one DOES want pre-entries, again, it is far simpler to simply send back the check than it is to have cashed it and have to write out refund checks. The time involved in doing so more than offsets the "office fee" concept, IMO.) Heidi PS: Best messed-up rider card I ever got vetting rides was one that had spent a leg of the ride in a cantle pack with an EasyBoot and a banana! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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