Ridecamp: [RC] Fw:"New LD riders" or 3rd class Old Dominion Citizens

--- Linda Flemmer <bluewolfranch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 13:26:22 -0800 (PST)
> From: Linda Flemmer <bluewolfranch@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [RC]   [PNER] Fw:"New LD riders" or 3ed
> class Old Dominion Citizens
> To: Merryben@xxxxxxx
> 
> I very seldom post to ridecamp anymore even though
> I've been on it since the inception at moscow.com. 
> I've been involved with endurance since the erly
> 1980's, so I have seen some of its evolution.  I
> have
> to chip in after what I have seen evolving in LD's
> the
> Northeast.
> 
> If you had only seen the Old Dominion the few times
> they have had a limited distance there in VA.
> 
> If the 50 milers are made to feel 2nd class
> sometimes
> for "only riding half a ride", you should see how
> the
> 25 mile riders are treated.  Besides ONE clap per
> rider(not "clapping") at awards last year to "speed
> things up" and no recognition of the horse at all,
> the
> only "award" offered was the equivalent of a
> HUNTER'S
> PACE.  The rider closest to an undisclosed,
> pre-selected "ideal time" won a recognition award. 
> How is this preparing a 25 mile rider to become
> ready
> for a 50?!?  
> 
> The pre-ride meeting did NOTHING to recognize that
> the
> vast majority of riders were bringing along new
> horses
> or were riders returning after injuries or illness.
> (A
> prime example was the courageous 25 mile ride by
> international-caliber rider Maggie Price after her
> recovery from cancer.)  The riders were lectured to,
> rules were reviewed as though speaking to a group of
> young children.  No offer to review ride rules,
> pulse
> parameters & vet stop, then offer a "new riders"
> meeting.
> 
> The 25 milers were treated as THIRD class citizens.
> 
> Until this attitude is nipped in the bud, 25 milers
> are turned off and many returned to the fast paced
> CTR
> in the NE sanctioned by ECTRA.
> 
> For what it was worth, no I wasn't an LD rider there
> last year.  I'm just fed up by the attitude that LD
> is
> for "beginners" in the NE who need to be "saved from
> themselves".
> 
> Linda
> Blue Wolf Ranch
> West Virginia
> --- Merryben@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > In a message dated 12/24/2002 1:02:08 PM Eastern
> > Standard Time, howard9732@xxxxxxx writes:
> > 
> > > Make the LD
> > > exactly, and I mean exactly like the 50 miler.  
> > 
> > It really scares me when I agree with Howard but
> in
> > this case I do......mb
> 
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