Re: RC: statistics on AERC rides...

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

Rides 2 Far wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > as usual - the 100s are a very small fraction of total riders - >
> only 6%> > of the membership competed in 1 day 100s.  thought this used
> to be > almost 10%
> 
> I wonder if this has to do with increasing membership or decreasing
> 100's.  I hope it means that as we become more aggressive in increasing
> our numbers, we
> have started something of a "baby boom" of lower distance riders who will
> someday move up.
> 

Or no ROC to give people incentive to do 100's. I think the two day 100
has gone by the wayside because of the demise of the ROC. If something
is not done to turn around this you will probably see fewer 100's in the
future. There doesn't seem to be much incentive to do one any longer.

> > > LD represents 32% of the total and likely growing.  SE and Central >
> have by far the> > largest LD programs with 36% of the total LD even
> though they are > some of the
> > > smaller rider regions.
> 
> You know, you can say "Southeast" but as a person who lives here I
> believe you could substitute that for "Georgia".  The farther south you
> get, and the hotter and more humid it gets the more LD's you run into.
> Also, there's a BIG LD contingency centered around Atlanta. These people
> have limited trails to condition on, and often commute quite a ways to
> get to where their horses are boarded.
> 
> The rest of us here in the SE are very spread out geographically.  The
> Atlanta crowd tends to be fairly well organized and large in numbers
> simply because of a heavy concentration of people in the area.  They're
> good people and try to recruit a lot, but they recruit other people who
> have the same problems, short on trails, and time. If you go to Kentucky,
> Tennessee, or North Carolina you just don't see it. The Alabama and
> Mississippi groups are small, but from what I've seen have more 50's
> percentage wise (more trails). If if you want to see a BIG LD, go to
> Million Pines (about 2hrs. from Atlanta) or Hahira, GA. right on the FLA.
> line.
> 

If you look at the numbers from say '92 or '93 you will find at many
rides there were two LD riders per 50 mile rider at the SE rides. This
has shifted to about an even number. I some of the rides today, there
are even more 50's than LD's. Even at Million Pines this year it was
about 100 in each event. The thing that is happening in the SE seems to
be that the numbers are growing in both groups.  

> Angie
>
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