ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: weight, class and winners

Re: weight, class and winners

carl meyer (carlmey@citrus.infi.net)
Wed, 24 Sep 1997 21:51:15 +0000

Ken,
I have been involved in Endurance Racing since 1985. All those miles
are in the top 10. I started the one of the first endurance rides in
Florida. It was because of a very busy professional practice that I had
to take a hiatus from racing from 1990-1994. Then when I started back in
1994 I noted that due to a weight gain I was finishing behind the same
ones that I use to beat...... that's when I started to let my wife be my
jockey for the horses' sake. The thirteen pounds in weight difference
made him a winner,again.... If you want to be competetive it doesn't
take a genius to see that something needs to be done about the weight
inequities....I want everybody to have a chance at winning.... After a
race while taking a shower where it seems everyone expresses themselves
honestly, all I hear from the men is how hard it is too finish in the
top ten since there are so many featherweights and lightweights in the
sport. When I started in this sport there were very few featherweights
and only a handfull of lightweights mostly middle and heavyweights so
who cared as there were only 10 horses in the race. Now there are on the
average 58.4 horses in a fifty and 19 in a one day 100. That's the
reason the rules have to change. I'm 67 but I'll probably be around
after your gone,Ken.
Carl

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