Michelle Lichtenfels

I also prefer Option A, since I like to know who my competition REALLY is!
With a fully combined field, it's difficult or impossible to know your
placing during the race, which in my experience is a pretty big motivator.

Michelle
Bridgetown Velo

2008/6/5 Elise Huggins :

> As a CAT 4 racer – both options seem quite equal to me given that the
> number of laps remains the same and all 3 fields might eventually bleed
> together even if staggered initially. If pressed to pick, however, I'd vote
> for option A.
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> Elise
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> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Clark Ritchie
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:31 PM
> *To:* OBRA
> *Subject:* [OBRA Chat] To All Mt Tabor Women
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>
> I am getting some feedback from the referees about scoring the womens
> races.
>
> Which of the following two options would you prefer?
>
> (a) Start the senior women and when they come by after lap 1 then start the
> Cat 4 women, and when this combined field comes by then start the Masters.
> This way the groups will get to do the different laps (7, 6, 5) and they
> will all finish on the same lap.
>
> (b) Run all the women together, with each category doing 6 laps total.
>
> I believe either (a) or (b) will make scoring easier.
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> Thanks for your input.
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> ..CDR
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