RE: [RC] how to rate a ride - Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVM
Using algebra is fine when the trail is consistent the entire
way. Very often, you’ll have a few miles of perfect footing where you can make
good time, followed by a three mile straight-up hill, followed by another few
miles of boulder-hopping, all of which either require or will allow faster or
slower speed. Ask Truman sometime about sugar sand in the SE.
Susan Garlinghouse, DVM
>Night before the ride, I used my cell phone calculator and
figured out the EXACT pace I would have to go to get to each marker and make
the cutoff >time. I figured in the 45 min vet ck plus 30 minutes for
any hold ups - my safety buffer.
