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Re: [RC] political issues with placing? - Kristen A FisherHello all RideCamp, I have yet to enter a ride, but I was in e-mail communication with a woman who lives near me--thought she might be interested in training rides. She had only ridden 2 LD rides, but she said that there were politics involved and that disapointed her. She stated that at one ride she was 10th, so in consideration for BC, another rider complained about something unrelated to her and she bot bumped to 11, then she came in first place but later saw someone else's name as first place, everyone else as a finisher. She stated that it matters whom you know, and that times can always be changed.Boy howdy, what rides has SHE been to? Some regions don't give placings at all on LDs (but if that is the case, everyone is in the same boat). But nope, your time is what it is. The only other thing I can even IMAGINE going on here is if she doesn't understand that the time on LDs doesn't stop until the pulse meets criteria?? If she doesn't grasp that concept, I can envision a scenario where she is first across the line but someone else pulsed down ahead of her. Otherwise, if that happened anywhere I've ever ridden, there would be a great hue and cry, and a protest. And quite frankly, I've never seen or heard of such a thing happening anyway.... Heidi I think it could also happen if the rider card in times did not mesh with the timer times, and they had to determine where the error was. I have had errors on times on my cards occasionally but as they didn't affect the outcome I didn't bring up the discrepancy. But it could happen too - an honest mistake, not politics! Kristen =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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