Interesting reading.
On second thoughts and after chatting with our other Go Ride coach and coordinator, the coaching may be unfeasible too. Going to read the guidance again.
They must be ... and the supermarkets i have visited in Stoke, Newcastle, Chesterfield, Bristol, Reading, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield.. in the last 2 months ....
If that snide comment was aimed at me, you need to get a grip. Firstly every single thing you typed there is wrong, secondly, I wasn’t leading a ride.
However ( and this is where the hard of understanding and the circle jerk that surrounds them fall down) I am an official ride leader, so whether or not I set it up as a ‘guided ride’ or a ‘ride social’ my purple L appears next to my name and I am leading it, as a leader.The difference is that there is no comeback, should anything untoward happen on the ‘ride social’ and in over 80 rides I’ve lead nothing has, so by issuing the first statement, they have done the second, in my case. I know it’s hard for some people to understand, but that’s your problem.
It's more about getting "your purple "L" next to your name" than the ride, and those taking part in it then?
Yes. That’s assuming there aren’t other leaders involved. The worst ones are where you are the solo leader and have to sprint like mad from the back to cover the junctions, let everyone pass, keep the elastic together, rinse and repeat, whilst simultaneously keeping the riders at the front from getting too far ahead, and not knackering the riders at the back out. I see it as good interval training.Thinking about Guided Rides, if leading as normal from the rear, and with a group of 5 socially-distanced riders, you would be racing over 25 metres on the wrong side of the road every time you came to a junction!
You said "I’ve just had an email from B.C. telling me that I can lead small rides again". Ride Socials are not leaded [edit: "led"] - ergo you are not an official ride leader on those rides even if you have the BC accreditation of "Ride Leader" that lets you officially lead other rides. The screenshot of the email that you provided did not say anything about leading such rides - it said they [Ride Social group rides] are able to resume. Any problem with understanding is yours - you are bigging up your importance.
FTFY
Doesn't the Ride social ride page list participants only and not list any specific ride leaders for that ride?
No, that’s not it at all. I can’t help the purple L, that’s an automatic functIon of the system. The point is that if a trained leader sets up a ‘ride social’ and a ‘guided ride’ there’s little difference, other than the accountability of BC for anything happening on the ride. I prefer setting up ride socials, because they are less hassle.
Do BC know that this is how you are representing their brand?
The ride leaders appear as participants, but with a purple L next to their name, on a ride Social. On a guided ride, they are separated, from the participants.
