Whoa, Kevin. Calm down. I'm not suggesting moving National Championships
only the national headquarters.
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Kevin Stevens
<Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net> writes:
> Road racers are, by necessity, more severely constrained on available
> sites. They are also, by the nature of the sport, dealing with
> higher
> income brackets, which in turn are usually associated with more
> scheduling
> flexibility. That is, they are less sensitive to cost, they have
> (as a
> group) more time available, and they are used to traveling all over
> in
> dedicated rigs because that's the way their sport works. Apples and
> oranges.
>
> It's 1810 miles from San Francisco to Topeka, 1864 from Seattle.
> It's 2335 miles from San Francisco to Birminghan. That's 1050 miles
> further, round trip.
>
> It's only 865 miles from Atlanta to Topeka, . I'm glad to see that
> y'all
> have no problem with West Coast members facing a drive/tow almost
> THREE
> times further than that.
>
> Population center numbers aren't relevant because they don't address
> the
> situation. If we were all sharing communal costs for travel, they
> would,
> but the reality is that travel to Nationals is a member by member
> individual requirement of time and money. That burden should fall
> as
> evenly as is feasible.
>
> KeS
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