Fw: Long Slow Distance

["Beth Gunn" <happyhoofprints@hotmail.com>]

and to Karen,
I re-read your original post before replying.  Yes, my "competition miles"
are low (due to career and new hubby-happily) but I have been a huge fan and
serious follower of ER for 15 years.  Bought DeeDee then just to learn this
wonderful endeavor and have tons of training miles but not "on file" you
researched.  Doesn't make me an idiot.  I was making opinion on what You
Said...not on anything else.  You said this guy rode a youngster on a multie
day ride and did it mostly on foot.  I don't consider that "endurance
Riding".  If I had to hand walk my horse on foot to get thru the day, I
would not do it again for 2 days after that.  I am sure you wrote your
original post with grins, thinking how much comraderie this guy was building
with his new partner.  I have felt that way too.  But endurance riding is
just that...riding!  I know his horse learned tons about camping and trails,
etc. and that is commendable.  But to get defensive when other ER s don't
want this as an example of endurance riding...maybe you should reread your
original post to see where the conflict is from.
Beth Gunn
SC
----- Original Message -----
From: Beth Gunn <happyhoofprints@hotmail.com>
To: Jim Holland <lanconn@tds.net>; <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: Long Slow Distance


> And Angie and Howard,
> I Totally agree with you both.  And we are not "bashing" this guy.  But we
> are not impressed.  I know more than a few people, I call them
> "whoopee-I-aye-Kye-aye's" types who raise a foal in the back yard are on
> it's back at 2 yrs.  This baby horse is soooo trusting that it does not
buck
> or rear so these people think it is "trained" and next thing, this very
> immature horse is on a trail ride with 100 other "kye-aye's"....and we
> wonder why there are so many horses at the auction barns...
> Education will help but I think Pride in horseman/womanship will be more
> important.  Some folks, I have met a few but do not ride with them, will
> never "get it".
> Ride well and Great New Year
> Beth Gunn
> SC
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Holland <lanconn@tds.net>
> To: Kathy Mayeda <Kathy_Mayeda@atce.com>
> Cc: <paintmypony@yahoo.com>; <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 4:52 PM
> Subject: RC: Long Slow Distance
>
>
> > Hmmm...
> >
> > He's proud of this?  Just the type of person we need in Endurance.
> >
> > Jim, Sun of Dimanche, and Mahada Magic
> >
> > > Kathy Mayeda wrote:
> > >
> > > How's this for long slow distance....
> > >
> > > One of the guys from our club brought a just under saddle, like I
> > > mean, three times under saddle, 5 year old gelding to the Death Valley
> > > Encounters.  This guy does not believe in Limited Distance.  He does
> > > three days of DVE 50 milers with this horse, riding cutoffs and
> > > actually coming in AFTER Trilby in the dark, often off the horse and
> > > on foot. Tigger was real tired the last day, and his owner was real
> > > proud of him because he gave him his all. so he got the last day off.
> > > Tigger looked great that night and was chasing his pen mate around the
> > > corral so they had to separate them!!!
> > >
> > > K.
> > >
> > >
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