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I suppose we should still be riding in blue jeans, western saddles and 
cowboy boots!

I'd like something clarified.  Sometimes I ride LD and sometimes I ride 
50's.  I do a lot of conditioning at a local park and when people see my 
strange and colorful tack, they ask what kind of riding I do.  I'm now in a 
quandry as to what to tell them.  I usually say "endurance" (which usually 
makes them back off with looks of horror on their faces.)  But now I'm 
confused.  Am I an LD rider? Am I an endurance rider?   Does my most recent 
ride dictate my status as a rider?

I have to say, I don't think I've ever heard the term "LD" used in a 
conversation except here on ridecamp.  At rides when I've asked people are 
what distance they are doing, they usually respond with 25 or 30 or 50 or 
100.  I can honestly say I've never heard anyone say they were doing the LD. 
Plus I've never found anyone in the general weekend riding public who knows 
what LD is ... they all know what endurance is.

Why did AERC start doing other distances than 100 miles?  Probably to draw 
in more riders.  So you draw us in and then insult us when we don't step up 
and do "real endurance" which, obviously, are 100-mile rides.

I've only been in this sport a short time.  Fortunately I didn't start 
reading ridecamp until AFTER a few rides (LD's in case anyone is 
interested), otherwise I would have been less ignorant about this prejedice 
against LD riders, and less apt to walk up and talk to people who seemed to 
know what they were doing so I could pepper them with questions.


Karen Williams
Spotsylvania, VA
www.mattariver.com
(back to lurking)



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