From korolis@u.washington.edu Tue Apr 20 07:15:53 1999 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id HAA50056 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:15:52 -0700 Received: from mailhost1.u.washington.edu (mailhost1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.2]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id HAA28487 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:15:52 -0700 Received: from [128.208.38.22] (S8-38-22.student.washington.edu [128.208.38.22]) by mailhost1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id HAA11013 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:15:52 -0700 X-Sender: korolis@korolis.deskmail.washington.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:17:54 -0700 To: Husky Racing From: Tony Korolis Subject: Fwd: Re: Conference Championships Schedule >From: lawson@myosin.chem.wsu.edu (David Lawson) >Subject: Re: Conference Championships Schedule >To: CFriedt@starbucks.com (Christina Friedt) >Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:59:23 -0700 (PDT) >Cc: RWhitacrNOAH@montana.campuscwix.net, monkey_lips@yahoo.com, > crosbycj@whitman.edu, wwutzke@wsunix.wsu.edu, beal4955@uidaho.edu, > CFriedt@starbucks.com, mahonema@ucs.orst.edu, >korolis@u.washington.edu, > ebasart@gladstone.uoregon.edu, wykoff@moscow.com >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Status: > > >Howdy, > >I agree strongly with Christina's call for a separate women's >field...although I disagree that the men ride sketchier than >the women. In any case, mixing the two fields is more dangerous >for all riders (not just the women...men bleed too). Also, it's >not nearly as fun for the women to race with the men since the >tatics within the field are virtually eliminated making the >race into a contest of who can hang on the longest. > >I understand that adding another field in the RR would require >another official and another caravan. If you can do it, that >would be great...if not, due to the profie of the course, it >probably won't change the outcome that much. However, it should >be easy to accomodate the change in the crit. Just shorten the >men's races by 5 minutes each and reduce on-course warm up >times to 10 minutes before each race (including the added >women's race) and you've just opened up a 25 minute slot. If >you don't mind running 10 minutes long...the women will get a >35 minute race to themselves. QED. > >Cheers, >Dave > > >Christina Friedt wrote: >: >: I know it may be too late to change anything, however, I will mention it >: anyways. We have a large women's field this year and it REALLY SUCKS riding >: with the Men, is it possible for us to have our own race? The Men ride >: sketchier than we do which makes it more dangerous for us, and it's nice >: riding with just the girls. I don't know, ask the other girls how they feel >: about it. I would imagine that I and my womens team aren't the only ones >: who would rather go without the men. >: Christina >: > > ------------------------------------------------------------ >| David Lawson | | >| Dept. of Biochem. & Biophy. | You can't have everything, | >| Washington State University | where would you put it? | >| Pullman, WA 99164-4660 | -Steven Wright | >| Lab phone: (509) 335-2533 | | > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------- Tony Korolis University of Washington Haggett Hall, Box 42359 Seattle, WA 98195-0042 Home: (206) 934-4265 Pager: (206) 540-8216 Email: korolis@u.washington.edu ------------------------------------------- .