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Interesting viewpoint....
Yet, AERC membership is way up.  Maybe people aren't as interested in 100 
mile rides as they used to be?

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Truman Prevatt" <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Dunn, Meghan" <meghan.dunn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] 100 mile rides are disappearing


> The trend is not new. In '96 there were 89 one day 100 mile rides. In '06 
> there were less than half that. It's a vicious cycle or as a friend of 
> mine puts it "a self eating watermelon." The question is "is the 
> decreasing number or riders driving down the number of riders," or "is the 
> decreasing number of rides driving down the number of riders?" Most likely 
> it's a combination of both.
>
> Truman
>
> Dunn, Meghan wrote:
> > I have been trying to do a hundred mile ride for several months now. It 
> > seems though that in the central region all 100 mile rides are 
> > disappearing. I counted yesterday and figured out that five years ago 
> > there used to be 8 hundred mile rides in our region. Now there are 2 a 
> > year. This year one had to be cancelled so there was only one. What is 
> > the reasoning for this? Do people not want to do them anymore? Also, the 
> > number of rides a year is diminishing as well. It seems now that if you 
> > want to be nationally competitive in our sport you have to travel to the 
> > east or west coast. Is this just me or do others feel the same way.
> >
> > Meghan Dunn
> >
> > Central Region
>
>
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