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So... do we have a proposal to consider at the Board meetings? 

Steph

> > Another point--for the past two years, I've offered to teach
a full day, eight
hour seminar in endurance nutrition and applied physiology
in conjunction with
the national convention, everything from basic concepts to
advanced
strategies.  While everyone thought it was a great idea in
principle, nothing
has ever been done to get it rolling.  Not to sound
arrogant, but you can't
tell me there isn't enough interest among the
members---every year for the past
five years, my seminars are *always* standing room only and
the vendor halls
become like a ghost town---you're telling me that a full day
seminar wouldn't
pull enough people to turn a profit AND disseminate a ton of
rider education?
Frankly, if AERC doesn't get on the band wagon and do it,
I'll rent the lecture
hall at the Silver Legacy myself next year and organize the
damn thing for the
day before the convention on my own. Anybody wanna bet I can
make a profit
doing it and pull a good sized crowd that'll go home a LOT
more educated than
when they arrived?

Endurance News has had some good quality educational
articles in it recently,
especially those borrowed from Ray Geor, but you can't blame
qualified writers
for not wanting to give high quality articles away for free
on a regular basis,
when other publications *do* pay for articles.  Even a token
payment would pull
in more good, education articles.  AERC has the research
budget and the by-laws
that talk about education.  Let's get with it, already.

Enough ranting.  Bob, I don't have Stagg's email address
here with me---forward
this to him, if you wouldn't mind.

JMO.
Susan Garlinghouse
> >



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