Re: [RC] New incentive to enter 100's - Barbara McCrary
Something very much like this has been discussed over
the years and was discussed when I was on the board a good many years ago.
We voted against it then and I would vote against it now, simply because of a
word called "commitment."
If you commit to riding 100 miles and don't make it,
yet get credit for what you do finish, that is a cop-out. It is too
easy. It's just another way to "dumb-down" endurance riding.
(Interesting _expression_, strange but apt.)
Compare it to a student assigned a composition, a set
of problems or a project...he doesn't finish all of them but he gets a grade for
doing what he does. I certainly don't remember getting off that easy in
school.
At Yellow Hammer this past weekend, an annoucement was made about a
suggestion for a new rule. It went something like
this: if you enter a 100 and get pulled 50+ or 75+ miles, you would
still get credit for the 50 or 75 miles that you did ride. The
announcer - I didn't catch the name - wanted us to contact our
directors to voice our opinions on it.
My knee jerk reaction was no way! Am I just resisting
change? What does every one else think?
