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Re: [RC] 100's - FEI - Dabney Finch

Steph:

This post made me look for your ride on AERC (also crewless; some say clueless), but couldn't find it.

Would you post the info (date, location) here for us?

Thanks!
Dabney
(& Kowyhee--with a name like that--I should be entered in the Owyhee!)

----- Original Message ----- From: "Steph Teeter" <stephteeter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 2:55 PM
Subject: RE: [RC] 100's - FEI



I have to agree with some of you that FEI can make it less fun, more
stressful, etc. (as a rider and as a ride manager!) It helps for the RM to
have a done a couple, and it really makes a difference to have staff (FEI
vets, judges, stewards, TD's) that works well together, and keeps things
friendly and low key. Having an overzealous steward can be a bit of a
nuisance. It's a balancing act for the most part.

Karen - to answer your questions:

Now I have questions for you Steph. ;) How hard would it be to do
your May 100 without a crew? >>

Shoudn't be a problem. I'm still fine tuning the loops but there won't be a
'designated crewing area' - you can go wherever you want after you see the
vet. We've changed the vetting area in camp so it's right next to the
parking area now, which makes it easier to just go to your own trailer for
holds. There will be a 50 mile loop though with one out-vet check which you
will use twice. So you'll need to send stuff out, but we'll take stuff out
for folks that don't have a crew.


Can we just go in and get our pulse and then go pull our tack and come
back
to vet (without having to have an argument)? >>

Good question. I don't know why not... RM's would have to set the pulse gate
traffic flow up to allow that. But, we (Arabian Nights, Owyhee 100) are
doing this a little different now - riders go directly to the vets after
entering the 'pulse gate' rather than having pulse-takers as an intermediate
step. With a lot of vets this is possible, and in the event that you enter
the pulse gate but a vet isn't available your horse can eat while waiting,
and you are not losing any time while you wait.


How many vetchecks do you require tack off >>- Tack/no-tack is pretty much
up to the head-vet (Mike Foss is our head vet), with input from ride
managers, etc. I don't know the answer to this yet, but my guess is that
most of the checks will be tack-off.

how many vetchecks, out of and in camp are there>>
Probably (still deciding) the first 2 holds will be out (over by the river)
and the last 3 will be in camp.


, and how many hours/mins. of hold times do you have? >> probably 30, 50,
60, 50, 30 - might change according to weather. I like to give pretty long
holds in general. And this will be close to the summer solstice, lots of
daylight, and a pretty easy course, nobody should be worried about going
overtime.

I would guess that most FEI riders have crews, whereas a lot of regular
AERC
riders don't, and that is where part of trying to get thru those
types of rides becomes difficult.>>

I understand - and will really try to encourage 'regular' AERC riders, first
time 100's, etc - by making it as easy as possible w/o crew.


Keep the suggestions coming - we can make this work.

Plus I'm thinking of sanctioning this as an elevator ride :))) (50's and
100's will start together at 5:30 AM....)

Steph



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