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Re: [RC] What's in a name? - Barbara McCrary----- Original Message ----- From: "David LeBlanc" <dleblanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 2:44 PM Subject: [RC] What's in a name? Joe said:... an LD ride is not an endurance ride. Challenging for some people, and some horses, yes -- but not an endurance ride.Meanings of words can and do change over time, sometimes quickly. "Hacker" used to be a computer lover, now it's an evil person that makes trouble on computers. "Starve" used to mean "to die", now it means really hungry. If I'm not mistaken, early in this sport, all we had was 100 mile rides, and those were endurance rides. Then 50's came along, and "endurance" got expanded to 50's too, even though a 50 isn't anywhere near as hard as a 100. In the beginning, there was one 100 mile ride, the Tevis. Then along came some more 100s and some 50s. THEN the AERC was founded, but AFTER 50s were already established. And AERC by-laws state the an endurance ride is 50 miles or greater. Barbara =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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