Good point, and why I asked if my 50k meters, done in multiple sittings, was a "real" Red Giant.Kona2 wrote:
Help me understand this:
The award distances have to be completed in one sitting. These are the full marathons, the half marathons and the newly designated red giants.
Distances that are equivalent to the award distances, yet completed in more than one row session during a 24 hr period, are moons of some sort, complicated by using the same pictures. How are we supposed to know which one is a real award and which one is an equivalent?
Aaaaaack.
I would look at it like this:
An "official" distance, which must be rowed in one sitting, are those available for a ranking on the C2 books. These distances are:
500 m
1,000 m
2,000 m
5,000 m
6,000 m
10,000 m
21,097 m (Half Marathon)
42,195 m (Full Marathon)
100,000 m
For us to recognize a "Half Marathon" or a "Full Marathon," the member reporting that distance should advise you that it was accomplished in one sitting. Otherwise, it would be recognized as a "Half Moon" or a "Full Moon" in recognition of the distance covered, but in multiple stints over the course of the same day.
Any other (unofficial) distance(s) we choose to recognize, e.g. 50,000 m as a "Red Giant," would be up to us to decide whether it must be rowed as a single piece or in multiple stints
Since 50,000 m is not eligible for ranking on the C2 books, I'd say multiple sittings over the course of the same day would be OK.
Our (Luna-Tic) precedents are:
Half Moon - multiple sittings OK
Full Moon - multiple sittings OK
Red Giant - ?
What say you all?
