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Re: [RC] How did you get started? - Tiffany D'VirgilioPS-do yourself a favor and for your first ride do one with amenities. Like Terry's rides with food and water on the trail and as many creature comforts as you can. I don't need that now, but it was sure nice that on that first ride in that heat I had an amazing RM, Lynne Glazer who supplied us with the things that made a hard day a little easier. You have all the time in the world to do a bare bones ride- both types are great and I am just grateful that anyone would mark trail, make it safe, suffer all the nightmares of hosting a ride, just so that I could have an amazing time with my horse and see some amazing and gorgeous trail that I would never have seen on my own.Thank your ride manager each and every ride-they bust their ass for us because they love this sport. Thank all the volunteers because without these people we would all be riding in our backyards. Most of all have fun and thank your horse too-they are the ones hauling our butts around. To thank my horse I lost 35 pounds, I bet if she could talk, she would thank me for that. Thanking my horse involves a lot of Complete Advantage:) Tiffany On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Tiffany D'Virgilio wrote: I have been riding since I was 2, and gave it up for a while because we showed and I was totally bored and frustrated with the whole scene. I did gymkhana too, but was just bored. I finally saw something about endurance after rescuing my two current arabs and getting a subscription to AHW. They always cover endurance and by then I was exclusively riding trails and had done a trail trial. (Too slow and my mare couldn't figure out why I insisted on her crossing a narrow bridge in the middle of a wide trail-why do that when you can go around?), endurance fascinated me. I just wanted to ride as much as I could and to feel the wind in my hair (OK, helmet). I moved to a community where there is a riding club and multiple endurance riders and lo and behold, trained and trained and then jumped in with both feet, doing my first ride, a 50, with no crew. (Hey, I never said I was smart) The people were amazing, and it was a hot and humid ride-by the end I wanted to die, but that mare and I...something happened out there. I had never bonded like that with a horse, maybe only excepting my shetland Merrylegs. It was a special thing and that mare and I would take care of one another to the death. I haven't done a 25, it doesn't hold interest for me because I do that milage in training, and I like the challenge of a 50. That is me-I know some love the 25's, and I am sure they get the same feelings, it is just the milage they have chosen to do, as is 100 or multidays. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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