Integrity
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 10:43 am
I meant to post this right after Milford.
Tyler Toman races against my son Grayson in the 400 class. An area on the far south west side has a perimeter trail that I didn't want used for part of it so I put up ribbon. The ribbon went down (likely ran through by someone who knew it would gain 3 seconds!) and allowed a rider to get on that fast trail and bypass a short section of tighter trail.
Tyler was behind Grayson and went straight (where the ribbon should have been) and Grayson followed what he knew was the intended trail. Tyler must have realized after he was already too far past the missed turn because Grayson said that when he exited the tighter trail onto the fast trail, Tyler was simply sitting there, where the trails intersected again, waiting for Grayson to go by and put things back in their proper order.
That my FMHSC family is integrity. If every single rider was that upstanding and outstanding, I would need a lot less ribbon to set up a course!
I simply didn't want this to go unnoticed or unspoken. I fully meant this post to be about Tyler but I should also give some props to Grayson for following the intended course. In Tyler's case, that down ribbon would have been unnoticed when following another rider but for all those other people approaching that area unobstructed, the down ribbon was obvious enough and right then it becomes a choice.
Sweep riders should have fixed this as soon as it was noticed but it apparently did not get fixed all day. That is another topic.
If anyone else has examples of rider integrity they would like to share, feel free.
Tyler Toman races against my son Grayson in the 400 class. An area on the far south west side has a perimeter trail that I didn't want used for part of it so I put up ribbon. The ribbon went down (likely ran through by someone who knew it would gain 3 seconds!) and allowed a rider to get on that fast trail and bypass a short section of tighter trail.
Tyler was behind Grayson and went straight (where the ribbon should have been) and Grayson followed what he knew was the intended trail. Tyler must have realized after he was already too far past the missed turn because Grayson said that when he exited the tighter trail onto the fast trail, Tyler was simply sitting there, where the trails intersected again, waiting for Grayson to go by and put things back in their proper order.
That my FMHSC family is integrity. If every single rider was that upstanding and outstanding, I would need a lot less ribbon to set up a course!
I simply didn't want this to go unnoticed or unspoken. I fully meant this post to be about Tyler but I should also give some props to Grayson for following the intended course. In Tyler's case, that down ribbon would have been unnoticed when following another rider but for all those other people approaching that area unobstructed, the down ribbon was obvious enough and right then it becomes a choice.
Sweep riders should have fixed this as soon as it was noticed but it apparently did not get fixed all day. That is another topic.
If anyone else has examples of rider integrity they would like to share, feel free.