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Re: [RC] To Finish is to Win, But So Is to Win - Dabney Finch

Frank wrote:
This discussion has highlighted the incongruities put forth by the AERC.
 
To Finish Is To Win.      But Champions Finish First.
 
How can an organization send such diametrically opposed messages to the membership?
 
Dabney responds:
I don't see those beliefs as opposed at all.  100s are like ultra-marathons.
Geez, anyone who completes one of those is an absolute "winner," in my book--and I'm sure most of them (& most people they know) think of themselves as such.  And then, there are a few who actually Top Ten, and then, the "elite" (that was for Jerry) who actually win the damn things!  (Maybe it's like I'd feel rich if I had a million dollars, but that's just chump change for Trump?)  And, this is a good thing....at least I think so!
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Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [AERCMembersForum] Re: Digest Number 697/NC

In a message dated 1/24/2006 1:00:51 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, jerryfruth@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
Somewhere along the line of this discussion we continue to forget about the horse.
I never forget about the horse.
 
This discussion has highlighted the incongruities put forth by the AERC.
 
To Finish Is To Win.      But Champions Finish First.
 
How can an organization send such diametrically opposed messages to the membership?
 
I'm just fine with no awards for the riders for any distance, at any time. 
 
Truth to tell, I'm just fine with no National Champion as well, or Regional Champions.
 
If the AERC is going to call someone NATIONAL Champion....well, that's what they should be.
 
Frank
 
  


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