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Please take no offense, but I find this whole thing rather humorous.  To be 
honest, I am trying to make it to some LDs, so I can see if I feel I am 
ready for 50s, with the ultimate goal of trying 100.  It is just the 
parallels between this and the other sport I engage in that I find amusing.

Aside from my riding, I am also a caver. A what? Yep, a caver.  In the 
outside world, you tell people you are a caver and they look puzzled until 
you offer up the word 'spelunker'.  In the caving world, we say that cavers 
rescue spelunkers and it is considered insulting to call someone a 
spelunker.  The outside perception of a title is often different from how 
those inside the sport perceive it.  The other parallel that struck me as 
interesting was that the caving community at large spends a lot of time 
trying to figure out how to bring new blood into the sport to map, restore, 
and explore caves.  Odd that we all have the same problems.

Oh, and if I am way behind on this, it is because you all filled up my inbox 
while I spent last week as part of a volunteer staff of 25 people running a 
week long convention for 774 cavers.  Talk about enduring...

Nikki (and Cody, who hopes to be an endurance horse someday, maybe...)
AERC M33800 / PNER 3782 / NSS 44146



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