Re: RC: Fwd: RC: "Weighty issue"

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/20/99 12:31:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
truman.prevatt@netsrq.com writes:

<<  That is as far as
 weight divisions go, if there were 25% HW riders in a ride, then you would 
find
 on the average 25% HW's in the top 10. >>

That is making an assumption that the heavyweights are equally fit and ready 
to ride, which in my experience is far from true.  There are an awful lot of 
folks who are heavyweights because we are overweight and underconditioned, 
and we HAVE to ride slower because we simply can't make the old bod work the 
way it used to.  (I'm not quite a HW, but I'm knockin' on the door, and 
believe me, my horse is far more capable of carrying me than I am of riding 
him!)  The folks who are truly big but not fat don't seem to have a bit of 
difficulty flying right by.  As a number cruncher, you know very well that 
the numbers don't mean squat unless you have eliminated the variables--too 
many really OBVIOUS variables here...

Heidi


=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net.    
Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/RideCamp   
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=