Re: RC: Fwd: RC: Weighty issue

["Jerry Fruth" <hikryrdg@evansville.net>]

Heidi, Thats just BS.  I just finished a race where there were 9
heavyweights running.  All men. All fit.  And I had to turn it on to stay
ahead of these guys.  Maybe they are fat out west but here in the east, no
way.  The heavyweight crop just gets better each year.  I really, really
resent the image you are trying to paint of us heavyweights. Jerry
Hickory Ridge Arabians web page:
http://www.evansville.net/~hikryrdg

Standing JABASK KNIGHT
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com wrote...
>In a message dated 4/20/99 12:31:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>truman.prevatt@netsrq.com writes:
>
><<  That is as far as
> weight divisions go, if there were 25% HW riders in a ride, then you would 
>find
> on the average 25% HW's in the top 10. >>
>
>That is making an assumption that the heavyweights are equally fit and ready 
>to ride, which in my experience is far from true.  There are an awful lot of 
>folks who are heavyweights because we are overweight and underconditioned, 
>and we HAVE to ride slower because we simply can't make the old bod work the 
>way it used to.  (I'm not quite a HW, but I'm knockin' on the door, and 
>believe me, my horse is far more capable of carrying me than I am of riding 
>him!)  The folks who are truly big but not fat don't seem to have a bit of 
>difficulty flying right by.  As a number cruncher, you know very well that 
>the numbers don't mean squat unless you have eliminated the variables--too 
>many really OBVIOUS variables here...
>
>Heidi
>
>
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