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At 09:06 AM 11/19/2005, Jody Rogers-Buttram wrote:
>    * The awards are the same for all three distances.  This one 
> bugs me, when I ride a 100 miler and get the same little bucket or 
> lead line that someone that rode 25 miles get.  Maybe this is just 
> a personal quirk of mine, but seems a bit unfair.  I think that the 
> awards should reflect the effort put into it.  This is effort from 
> the rider a! nd the horse.  And I don't care what anybody out here 
> thinks...but a horse that can do a 100, is a far better athlete 
> than one that can only do a 25 or a 50. He must be tougher.
>    * The awards are given is the order of 25's first, then the 50's 
> and then...last the poor ole 100 mile people get theirs.  What 
> happens is that the T-shirts or whatever are all so picked over 
> that the people that have worked the hardest, have the most to be 
> proud of...gets the least.  And if you don't think so, and you 
> haven't ever done a 100 or 50, just do one and see how you feel.
That is definitely true! The one most hilarious thing that I ever 
remember was there was once a letter in EN from a LD rider 
complaining about the 'cheezy' award they had gotten. You know, they 
had done all that work to ride their horse a whole 25 miles and they 
got this apparently awful award. Well, I had gotten that same award 
for riding the 100.   It kind of makes you sad that the person riding 
the 25 had not yet figured out why we do this sport.

I have also more than once done a 100, or a 75 and the next morning, 
yep, all of the awards given out were given first choice to the LD 
riders so the longer distances got the leftovers. They also got to 
eat a meal that I probably didn't get the night before ;) They didn't 
have to get up as early either. But they also didn't get to ride like I did!

I try to think of the awards as I use them, or see them and have the 
memories of the rides (and the photos <g>), and that is what makes it 
mean something.

Karen
in NV

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