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There is no relationship between the VVRides and the AERC. It doesn't  
really relate to AERC beyond that some of the participants may be  
members of AERC as well as participating in the VVRides series. It  
would be difficult to make VVRiders from Australia, South America, or  
Europe, join AERC in order to enter a ride and I certainly don't what  
to have to require proof of membership in some organization b/f I  
allow someone to ride their horse.

There is currently an open issue in the VVRides napkin of rules  
relating to counting miles which may have been done at an event  
sanctioned by some other organization. My position is, today:), that  
a mile is a mile and if you submit your track logs and fill out your  
vet cards then a mile done at an AERC event which happens to be  
concurrent with a Very Virtual event counts. It DOES mean that you  
need to do CRIs at all your vet gates (which AERC does not require)  
and you have to keep your arrival time/pulse time info (which AERC  
does not record).

I should point out that the third motivator for the Very Virtual  
Rides is that it teaches EACH of us to vet/evaluate our own horses.  
You MUST do a CRI (which means you need to learn to trot your horse  
and to take pulses!!) and you need to do all the other tests on a  
regular basis - it's a learning by participation experience:)

Flora is also bringing the team aspect of the VV Rides to the  
forefront. She's focused on "samePlaceSameTime" teams - where she's  
organizing a set of week-end rides on the OD trails in March. Her  
team will ride together and have good time. My only input to her now  
is that each team has a good team secretary - local tech support as  
it were:)

But I think teams can be broader in nature - like "a team must have  
at least one rider from each of 5 regions of the world" -- to help  
people from around the world begin to meet each other and, in the  
end, begin to share/trade real rides (or real virtual rides, like  
when Miguel and Celina went to France to ride the Floraq trails with  
Leonard!!

  http://www.endurance.net/international/France/2007Florac/notes01.html

great fun though:)

jt


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