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It affected our ride considerably.  We started 105 riders total, 50/50 75 
milers and 100 milers.  We were delighted, but also realized that when Tevis 
is held next year, our numbers would be down again.  And the fact that we 
had announced we were retiring from managing the 100 also brought in riders 
who had never done it and wanted to do it at least once.
As an aside, we had two riders entered in the 75 who were riding with 
artificial joints... a woman with a hip replacement and a man with two 
shoulder and two hip replacements.  Now that takes courage and endurance!!! 
I'm so proud of them.

Barbara


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Truman Prevatt" <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Dunn, Meghan" <meghan.dunn@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 6:28 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] 100 mile rides are disappearing


> But all in all - we not gaining 100 mile riders and we are losing 100 mile 
> rides.  The only bright spot I see is we seem to have stabilized at about 
> 950 to 1000 starts a year. Of course about 200 of those are in one ride. 
> Remove the Tevis and the numbers start to look a little more bleak. It is 
> unclear that if the Tevis disappeared that all those 200 riders would find 
> another ride. It will be interesting to see the numbers after the Tevis 
> cancellation this year.
>
> Truman
>
> Barbara McCrary wrote:
> > Interesting viewpoint....
> > Yet, AERC membership is way up.  Maybe people aren't as interested in 100 
> > mile rides as they used to be?
> >
> > Barbara


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