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What a wonderful story!  More people should read your story and give longer 
distances a try.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerry Greear" <kerryannieo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 6:09 PM
Subject: [RC] 100 miler very possible and very wonderful


> I'm a lurker and a newbie, but had to respond to this thread:
>
> In December of 2003, I by chance saw the book, Tevis Cup, at a bookstore. 
> I had heard the term "endurance riding" but knew nothing about it.  I was 
> looking for a goal in my life (you know, the big 50, empty nester thing) 
> and after reading the book and being fascinated by the history of the 
> trail and the people who seemed to have love/hate relationships with it, I 
> decided I was going to do it!  I read Julie Suhr's book and Nancy Loving's 
> book, ridecamp almost every day, searched the archives, picked the brains 
> of a friend who is a runner, then started.  I did a 50 in June of 2004, 
> got sick but took good care of my horse, and got hooked.
>
> This trailriding woman with a wonderful morab jumped in with both feet and 
> did Tevis this year.  And I had a wonderful time the whole way, Hawk did 
> great, and we finished.
>
> So, set short term goals to meet your long term goals and listen to the 
> people who have done them.  Julie Suhr told me I could do it.  Jonni told 
> me I could do it. Friends I met at rides, Patti Crawford and Dorothy Sue 
> Phillips said we could do it.  My family told me they would kill me if I 
> quit!  (My family/crew looked worse than I did at the end!!.)
>
> If I would have stopped at Michigan Bluff (where we took 35 minutes after 
> vet check because Hawk was starving) I would never have wanted any sort of 
> mileage credit.  That would completely diminish the 18 months I worked my 
> butt off to get ready to do that ride.
>
> By the way, thank you all for encouraging people like me to just try.  And 
> thank you for making information accessible.  If this sport was easy, I 
> wouldn't have wanted to try it.
>
> Kerry Greear from South Dakota
>
>
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