Re: 1999 LD Rules

["Joe Long" <jlong@mti.net>]

On Sun, 13 Sep 1998 16:57:20 -0600, "Robert Morris"
<bobmorris@rmci.net> wrote:

>Under our current rules 47.6 miles would be considered a fifty. Under the
>proposed change the "protested/measured" would be a LD. I know many rides
>do not take the care to measure exact distances and often "estimate" those
>difficult portions. This proposed change can lead to some problems in
>disputed instances and I do not want to see the AERC act in haste once
>again and then in leasurely repentance have to go through a retraction. 

Bob, read rule 1. and 1.1.1 (which I quoted in another reply).  I was
on the Board when we tightened the wording in those rules, to
explicity require a minimum of 50 actual miles.  It is not legal under
AERC rules to "round up" a 47.6 mile ride into a 50 -- if the ride is
an actual 47.6 miles, it is not legally sanctionable as an endurance
ride.

I'm not saying that short rides don't exist, but they are not *legal*
distances under our current rules.

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