Re: Re: Fw: RC: endurance prospect, etc.

["Whitney Bass" <bass@bigsky.net>]

My friends finish ahead of me really pretty often -- do you honestly think
that I consider them "bad people"?  

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> From: Maggie Mieske <mmieske@netonecom.net>
> To: bass@bigsky.net; ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: Re: Re: Fw: RC:  endurance prospect, etc.
> Date: Monday, February 07, 2000 6:30 PM
> 
> I wasn't implying that you were "scared" of winning...but your posts did
> remind me that for a while, not really realizing it (and I probably still
> am), I had lost so much confidence in myself and was so afraid of just
> going faster (forget about winning!!!), that I wasn't allowing my horse
to
> do what he really was capable of doing. I was holding him back. Your
choice
> to hold your horse in check and not race is your choice, neither good nor
> bad.  As is the choice of those who DO choose to go faster and perhaps
> "win"... don't get me wrong.  You aren't going to see me out there
whipping
> my horse across the finish line in an attempt to win (NOT THAT ANYONE
> DOES!!!!!!)...but I am going to make a conscious effort to improve our
> speed and performance this year ACCORDING TO OUR ABILITIES (notice that I
> said OUR because I feel I am a TEAM with my horse) and I hope that if I
> cross the finish line before you, that I won't become a bad person.
> 
> 
> Maggie Mieske
> Mieske's Silver Lining
> 10601 S. Richards Rd.
> McBain, Michigan 49657
> http://www.netonecom.net/~mmieske
> mmieske@netonecom.net