Re: RC: Fundamental Differences in Motivation (was 3rd loop?)

["Truman Prevatt, Ph.D." <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

kat,

Many people ride endurance on trails they have to do twice or there
times simply because they love to be astride a horse. When you are
astride a horse does it really matter what the trails look like?

Truman 

"guest@endurance.net" wrote:
> 
> K S SWIGART   katswig@earthlink.net
> 
>
> I cannot EVEN imagine riding endurance this way.  Clearly the
> people who ride endurance in such areas (looping back to camp on
> four times on the same 12.5 mile trail to get 50 miles in) are
> motivated differently than I am.
> 
> It begins to make sense now why people become obsessed by
> competition, awards, riding times, etc.  They don't go to rides
> for the same reason that I do...I go for the trail.  If you go
> for the trail, then all that other stuff is unimportant fluff.
> Nice if you have it, but irrelevant in the scheme of things.
> 
> But if the trail is four (or EIGHT!!!) loops of the same thing,
> it is hard to get motivated to go for the trail. And if _I_ had
> to ride endurance this way, I simply wouldn't do it.  You couldn't
> pay me enough.
> 
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Truman Prevatt
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