slow LD - Long Message

["Linda Hedgpeth" <lth@thegrid.net>]

Hi Diane,

 

I have found people to be much more polite on the trail in CTR.  Trail etiquette is more important and more evident.  After all, you are being judged by the way you conduct yourself "on the trail".

 

I have also found that most endurance participants *are* courteous.  It's the few rude hooligans that you are hearing about here.

 

Linda Hedgpeth
Janesville, CA
lth@thegrid.net

> I'm 
>   getting ready to ride my first LD's this year.  I have
> to tell you 
>   these posts have scared me to death.  I ride in
> MN and have only 
>   ridden Competitive, but I have yet to meet
> a rider on the trail that 
>   represents the rude riders you are
> describing.  I've had 50 & 100 
>   milers pass me with the most
> respect.  They slow their horses down, 
>   let me know they are
> coming up on me.  I firmly believe when I ride 
>   the LD's that
> I will do it at my own pace and the devil with the ones 
>   that
> want to race to win.  Maybe that is the theory to slow 
>   them
> down.  If we all forgot about winning and just ride our 
>   own
> ride wouldn't that work.  Maybe a very simplistic 
>   idea...but
> some of the best are just that.
> Diane & Phoenix, the 
>   ultimate pasture 
>   potatoe!!!
>
>
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