Re: AERC completion time rule - feedback wanted

["Joe Long" <jlong@mti.net>]

On Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:00:08 -0700, "Robert J. Morris"
<bobmorris@rmci.net> wrote:

>Yes, Yes, something needs to change. Most particularly ATTITUDE!!  This is
>ENDURANCE RIDING not a Sunday picnic in the park. If you want to have every
>thing easy and sure then go ride on a merry-go-round (even then the thing
>may break down). Why can we not live with the thought endurance riding was
>not intended to be easy??? It once was "to finish is to win" Now it is "if
>I don't finish I will complain".

Bob, you know I've often agreed with you  in the past about the
challenge of *endurance* ... but that challenge is a real challenge,
against the trail.  We don't  need arbitrary rules or barriers to
produce it.  The "good old days" when trails were tough and no one
complained (did they really exist?) also were the days when the AERC
didn't have a riding time rule.

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