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Sandy,

People ride how they want to ride. In the 1:40 LD I mentioned the 
winning 50 was about 3:10. It was a flat trail and cool weather. There 
are LD's that probably require as much energy as an easy 50. If someone 
wants to start in a 50 - more power to them. There are people that will 
not do an LD - they will bring on a new horse in a 50. There are some 
that use 25 mile CTR's instead of LD's. As Jeannie stated I to can't 
understand why some people that do 25 mile CTR's look down on LD's - but 
I know a few.

I think the bottom line is there are a whole bunch of people out there 
that ride a whole bunch of different things and distances for a whole 
bunch of different reasons. As long as they take care of their horses - 
nobody is more correct than anyone else. Those that feel they are should 
go stand in front in the mirror and see themselves how others see them. 
At least that is the way I see it. At the end of the day - it is between 
the rider, his horse and the trail.

Truman

SandyDSA@xxxxxxx wrote:
> In a message dated 10/28/2006 4:47:10 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
> tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>     Bottom line there are those out there that are ripping it up in the
>     LD's. They have the horse to do it and they train to do it. On the
>     other
>     hand there are 50 mile riders that are ripping it up. I think pretty
>     much the number or reasons someone will race an LD or 50 for that
>     matter
>     on a given day are as numerous as the people that race them. I've
>     raced
>     a 50 and I've raced an LD. I don't do it all the time - in fact I
>     do it
>     seldom
>
> Just a question - I have found that even LDs can be so different from 
> each OTHER. There are some that at perhaps 30 miles are so rugged and 
> technical that they can almost be compared in effort to an easier 50. 
> Also, it has always seemed to me that complaining about LDers who race 
> - not that the thread was doing this but it came to mind - some hot 
> shoes a few seasons back made a big to-do about how people shouldn't 
> waste their time on LDs and go straight to 50s because LDers just run 
> their horses into the ground. I thought then and I think now - if that 
> were true - which I don't believe - then isn't it better to have the 
> idiots racing only 25 as opposed to 50 miles? As in any sport, it is 
> better for the athletes concerned to come up in the system, and it 
> seems that LD has been a great ladder for many, and also a great place 
> for rehabbing horses (and people) to get back into competition 
> condition; a place to ride those last few competition miles with that 
> old campaigner; and a place to bring up that new youngster without as 
> much concern about injury.
> In the times I am reading about, I wonder what rides they are - what 
> the trails are like etc. I know for a FCT I could NEVER ride Malibu as 
> fast as I could ride say Manzanita or Bear Valley - given the same 
> horse in the same shape. There are other factors that don't lend 
> themselves well to comparing ride times.
> JMHO
> s


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axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.” Albert 
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