ridecamp@endurance.net: [endurance] Re: endurance-digest V1 #269
[endurance] Re: endurance-digest V1 #269
Scooby1069@aol.com
Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:06:18 -0500
The subject of personal safety while riding alone has come up for me
everytime I ride deep into the woods that are by my home.
I have the best of worlds right outside my door. I train on a three mile
piece of hwy (to get my horse use to cars and tractors etc.) then I enter a
mountian region with 2 miles flat and then a 30 minute or more climb to the
top and then a flat road that takes me anywhere I wish before I descend and
retrace my origions. Most of the time this world is uninterupted by any form
of human life and it is a wonder to find such an isolated place.
But after reading todays digest I have decided to seek comfort in your
thoughts on the real issue facing us all. "personal safety". When I ride,
it often occurs to me that at any moment I could be dealing with some idiot
and I would be all alone. I am a small female and have already survived a
violent attack on my life as a teenager so I know first hand of what is out
there. Still I have learned to live with an eye open for safe situations and
choose that route instead of the "iffy" route. However, I can't help but
feel that every time I mount and ride out, I am placing myself in one of
those "iffy" situations.
It is difficult to turn against my parinoid feelings and yet I do every day
because living and riding my horse is a freedom I can't live without.
Last week a man stabbed and raped a woman and left her for dead up in the
hills where I ride. She lived. But now my sense of well being is even more
shattered. I also travel with a cell phone as well as inform my husband
where I will be riding but I am becoming more and more awaire as to the
reality of what could happen.
Perhaps there is no other solution other then to ride with others. As we all
know who are training for endurance, this is not always a posibility.
Any comments?
PEACE
Suzanne