Re: Fossil 55 Award, BioThane, saddle

[Susan Evans Garlinghouse <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

spencer wrote:
> 
> Does anyone recall that women over 60 have completed the Tevis in about 13
> hrs!!  That has been giving me inspiration!!  In the military, they are
> finding us 'old folks' can do very well in the physical fitness world.  I
> am 51 and doing more than I ever did in high school!!  Watch out for the
> baby boomers!!
> Mary Ann
> Zavalla,Tx
> (originally grew up in NW)
> 


One of the first lessons I learned in endurance is that the more I
thought another competitor looked too old and decrepit to be any real
competition, the more likely they were to run my uppity ignorant behind
right down into the ground.  So I changed my strategy and decided I was
only going to mentally blow off young'uns.  I think that was the ride
that Jeff and Chris Wall's kids, Breann Larimar and Vicki Greene's
daughter all rode me into the ground.  Then I decided it wasn't age, it
was short little sawed off people and ponies that I could afford to be
complacent about.  I believe that was the ride Janey Sheppard and Meggie
rode me into the ground.  Now I'm just happy to survive a ride just
without any truly public humilations and console myself that I'm at
least 25% sure that I might be able to run away from the average
schnauzer.

Susan