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SturmRanch@xxxxxxx wrote:

>  
> As someone else suggested, you wouldn't run in 20K's and resent not 
> being considered a marathom runner.

Folks this is where this debate gets way off track. In track- there is 
no distinction between the "status" of a marathon runner and a 20 K or a 
10 K or a 5 K. In fact in tract the marathon runner is pretty much the 
odd man out (they are the slow guys that didn't have the speed to make 
it in the shorter distances) - the marathon is not the glamour even. The 
mile is the glamor event. But that is only if you care about distance 
otherwise the 100 meter is the glamour event.

Why don't we get off this kick of "my distance is better than yours." As 
Mathew MacKay-Smith appropriately  stated at he Biltmore ride meeting 
several years ago, "we are all in this together. We survive together or 
we go down together."  You'd thing that a group that depends on the same 
trails and same vets we would be working together. But we seem to be 
divided.

Can't we just get along and stop throwing stones at each other?

Truman

>  
> I'm 63 years old and just got around to trying distance riding.  Most 
> days I think I'm one lucky lady to be able to be at the top of a 
> mountain on a good horse in gorgeous country.
>  
> I'd sure like to do a 50, the trouble is I just keep getting older.  
> My grandmother, however, used to point out that growing older is more 
> fun than the alternative.
>  
> Nancy Sturm, probably lucky to be able to do an occassional LD



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- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)




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