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To piggy-back off Barbara's story, my very first ride was inadvertently
mentored at Tejon by someone who I didn't even know but who has become
dear to me, Kathy Brayton and her beautiful horse, Bart.  She usually
rides 50's but was coming back off a surgery and rode the whole 30 with
me.  I was very grateful for that as it really helped set a decent pace
for my horse and kept me from quitting halfway thru when I thought I was
dying.  Lol  I'd say she was probably the first endurance rider in a
long line, who showed me how big-hearted and generous fellow riders can
be in this sport.  :)  
~Carrie

-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara McCrary [mailto:bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:04 AM
To: Kitley, Carrie E Civ USAF AFSPC 30 MDSS/SGSLF;
ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC] New Topic - Our Crazy Common Bond 

I had not ridden an endurance ride for a couple of years when I decided
to 
ride a new horse in a LD ride in August of 2007.  I chose the LD because
I 
felt I had not conditioned this relatively new horse enough to do 50.
In 
the end, he proved to me that HE could have done 50...it was I who would

have suffered.  I was out of condition!
I was nervous about starting the ride, as I always have been with
virtually 
any horse I have ever ridden in endurance.  I did not know how this new 
horse would act in a crowd, nor how he would behave in a mass start.  I
was 
camped next to Nick Warhol, who is a fine and competitive rider.  But
that 
day, he was riding an older horse on the LD, mostly for fun, I suspect.
He 
mentored me and my new horse through the ride in the kindest way
imaginable. 
Our start was not high-voltage as I had expected, but he stayed with me
the 
whole way.  I really didn't hold him up any, as we motored along quite 
briskly, but his companionship and mentoring was very special that day.
I 
have let him know how much that meant to me.

Barbara


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