Hi all:
Well, I finally got my laptop hooked back up to my home network after
arriving home - so the tt results from Aug 9 (found in my huge stash of
snail mail), Aug 30 and Sep 6 are now posted and accessible from the
obcweb. I actually put a few different displays of yesterdays results up
there. Please comment and discuss. It's our club!
Some Backgound on the handicapping disussions (or not...):
Last year when the age-handicapping event was introduced, I immediately
expressed my view to Avery that the method of handicapping would tend to
move women downwards in the overall open rankings since it handicapped
the men and women towards different means (Men at their prime are faster
than women (of the same training/fitness level) at their prime)).
Discussion was not possible. I expressed the view again this year to a
few more of the powers that be and the reactions ranged from unpleasant
to disinterest. I was basically told to not show the men's and women's
rankings on the same page. (I had neither the time to break down the
resistance nor the time (or desire) to comply with the programming
request).
The best female time of 21:06 by Meshy Holt (a professional rider from
New Zealand), is 2:23 slower than Ray Duggan's 18:43 (which is said to
not even be the fastest men's time!). A simple solution would be to
remove 143 seconds from all of the women's times. This doesn't in any
way upset the rankings within the genders - it just draws the women into
the event as full participants with the same opportunity as men to hit
any position (from top to bottom) in the overall rankings. After all it
is a handicap event in the OPEN time trial series. To see the results of
this method, go to
http://www.cyberus.ca/~obcweb/Racing/TimeTrials/Results/tt/2001/sep06agh.html
.
I don't think that the current age-handicapping scheme was intended to
disadvantage women or to "keep women in their place" - but it does, and
hence I have provided a constructive suggestion.
Do others have any views on this? It's our club! Please discuss. In my
view it's all a matter of healthy fun with motivation and competition
for all. (Actually I am really partial towards completely personal
handicapping methods - and that should be up for discussion too!).
Celia
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