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Yes, it seems the problem really revolves around the WORD "Endurance."  If 
they were just called, 25, 50 and 100-mile Distance races . . .  ADRC . . . 
(?) ;-o
Terry
"May the Horse be with you"


> From: Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: SturmRanch@xxxxxxx
> CC: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [RC]   LDs
> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:52:32 -0500
>
> 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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