I am totally underwhelmed by the amount of time people are prepared to devote such an uninspiring topic as handicapping a time trial. Surely there must be better things in life than this. The whole topic has been elevated to unfathonable depths. Such a simple and elementary task can not, under any circumstance, create such a wealth of verbosity if one could only understand the reason for a handicap time trial. That is to say, it should allow any rider to be a possible winner, regardless of age, gender or ability. These three factors are of no importance unless of course there are prizes for both male and female rider. How is this done? Again, very simply by giving each rider an allowance of time that will, when his/her allowance is subtracted from actual time produce, the winning time. In effect, if the handicapper was extremely accurate in assessment of performance, every rider would produce the same handicap time regardless of actual time. Having ridden hundreds of time trials in which there is both a prize for the fastest actual time and an equivalent prize for the fastest handicap, I can say from past experience that just about anyone, including the fastest rider, could win the handicap award. Norman Sheil. ------ To unsubscribe, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Club Office: [EMAIL PROTECTED], (613) 230-1064 Web/mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cyberus.ca/~obcweb Newsletter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cyberus.ca/~obcweb/Newsletter ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiDo.a2i8p1 Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
