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Kristen,

I don't think they will fire you but maybe dock your pay some. :)

Jeremy


> From: "Kristen A Fisher" <kskf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'Jeremy Olson'" <olsonjer15@xxxxxxxxxxx>,<ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [RC] rude riders revisited
> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 16:05:54 -0600
>
> All vets score BC differently and many may not calculate and/or use 
> criteria
> time when doing BC scoring. I did an informal poll of 4 vets at one ride 
> and
> only 2 of them look at data throughout the day.
>
> And since she was in a line of 15-20 horses that arrived to camp at the 
> same
> time, others may have been in the same position, leveling the playing 
> field.
> I have also looked at a lot of CT rides and found that the top ten are
> usually spread across and hour or so [between #1 and #10] so most likely 
> the
> "clump" of horses standing there were not top 10.
>
> The flip side is, it gives them an extra minute within which to reach
> criteria. So I think it's inconsequential, but others may feel differently
> and that's OK - there's always the option to dock my pay or fire me ;-)
>
> Kristen
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeremy Olson [mailto:olsonjer15@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 3:54 PM
> > To: kskf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; SandyDSA@xxxxxxx; jonnij@xxxxxxxx;
> > ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [RC] rude riders revisited
> >
> > Kristen,
> >
> > You are correct when you say that the in-time does not matter
> > as far as the pulse criteria goes, where it does come into
> > play is in the BC scoring.
> > Recovery time is exactly that, the time it takes your horse
> > to recover from the in-time to the pulse-time. If a group of
> > horses comes in together it is my understanding that they
> > shouold all have the same in-time. If I am incorrect in this
> > line of thinking please correct me.
> >
> > Jeremy Olson
> >
> >
> > >From: "Kristen A Fisher" <kskf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >To: <SandyDSA@xxxxxxx>,<jonnij@xxxxxxxx>,<ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Subject: RE: [RC]   rude riders revisited
> > >Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:46:18 -0600
> > >
> > >When I was arrival timer at the Region 9 ride, I had a 50
> > miler worried
> > >about the arrival time I wrote on her card because there was a line,
> > >and by the time her time was written it was 1 minute after
> > she called
> > >her name [call your name all you want, I ain't writing your
> > time down
> > >until I have your vet card!]. I reminded her that arrival
> > time has no
> > >impact on out time or ride time, so it doesn't matter as long as her
> > >horse pulses in within 30 minutes of that time. She seemed
> > like that was news to her. Hmm.
> > >Kristen



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