That was my verbiage, I didn't have the rule book in front of me. You
seem to have gotten the correct details from some of the other responses.
Sorry for any confusion.
KeS
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Ron Katona wrote:
> From: "Kevin Stevens" <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>
> > Yes. He passed through the course markers sequentially and in order.
> > Just because he decided to run around in circles a couple of times
> doesn't
> > change that. Situation is similar to someone running a loop twice --
> ok,
> > if that's the way you want to do it!
>
> I got a lot of replies on this so thanks everyone for straightening me
> out! I do understand the rule now about reentering upstream to complete
> the run. BTW, my OC call was disregarded at the event by T&S (who
> obviously were more familiar with the rule book than I was).
>
> However, it's the "sequentially" and "in order" part that confused me.
> To me, if you have gates laid out in order, then you pass through them
> one at a time in order: 1-2-3... etc. If you go 1-2-2-3..., then you
> went through gate 2 out of sequence the second time through since I
> always thought sequentially means 2 follows 1, and 3 follows 2, etc. I
> understand the rule now, but not the logic. As Andy Hollis pointed out,
> you could technically run the entire course, stop before the stop
> lights, go back through the first gate after the start line, and run
> the entire course again without being "Off Course." You'd probably be
> tarred and feathered, but you'd still be on course. Interesting... and
> odd.
> --
> Ron Katona
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