Seventeen people showed up at the trials grounds in Faribault yesterday to ride, just for the hell of it. Looking at the parking lot, you’d think it was an event.
Riders grouped by ability (one group of experts, another group of advanced/supersport) rode the sections from the last event of the year. We used golf’s Match Play scoring where you count how many holes/sections you win for the round/loop, not your total strokes/points. So each section is competed for individually. If there’s a tie, no one gets a point and the group moves on. After one loop of expert sections (Ben Winterer won), we rode a loop riding all the sections backwards, with no walking the sections ahead of time allowed. (Ken Storm won that loop.)
Another variation for a two-some: Last week, Martin Belair and I rode a couple of loops together, figuring our score as we rode by simply tracking of who was ahead by how much.
I don’t know s..t from shinola about golf but looking at the definitions for Four Ball and Best Ball makes me think we could do something similar for our Fun Day as well as for those times when a bunch of guys just show up to ride together. Like sandlot baseball, pick-up basketball, or shinny hockey. Yeah, we all like to just go out and practice, but it’s also fun to compete informally.
