Re: RC: Tevis vs OD

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

Ignorance is bliss...My first 100 was the Old Dominion!!!

Teddy (everything after that is a piece of cake)

Rides 2 Far wrote:

> >I am thinking the only way to compare races of the same distance
> >might>be by average completion rates.  If 90% of the entrants >usually
> >complete>one ride,  75% another and only 50% on >average for a third,
> wouldn't >the>first most likely be the easiest >and the last one the
> hardest of the
> >three?
>
> The problem with that is that I am amazed when I read the statistics of
> how many riders attempt Tevis for their FIRST 100!  That's also what
> bothered me about the statistics of "NATRC completions vs. "other".
> Somehow AERC members have to include all the first time "wonder if I
> could do THAT" riders.  Tevis has such a reputation as a "Great
> Adventure" and Old Dominion's been described to me as a "slave march in
> the humidity".  I don't think the unprepared are nearly as likely to show
> up and try OD on a whim...thus it probably has a higher completion rate.
>
> By the way, Million Pines in the Southeast is one of the easiest courses
> we have, flat firm sand.  It also has one of the lowest completion rates.
>
>
> Angie (who's done neither and would love to try both)
>
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