Ridecamp: [RC] ] Newbies

> As a slightly "older" newbie, I have been trailering 
> newbie friends to rides so that they could experience 
> their first endurance rides.  Sure, I give them advice 
> about electrolytes, pacing and stuff mostly because I 
> remember that I didn't know this stuff when I first 
> started. 

Last weekend Debi Morissette Ivey told me that she did her first ride
with me in 1987.  (Debi went on to be the National 100 miler champion,
and a lot more).  She said, "You don't remember, but I did my first ride
with you.  I didn't know *anything* and you talked the whole time and
told me all about how to do endurance right" or something like that.  

I was so embarassed because...that was MY third ride. >g<  I apologized
for having been such a know it all and she said, "No, I listened to what
you said, and 15 years later I'm still doing most of it.  I guess it
worked" >g<  Now I realize I wasn't giving her *my* advice, I was giving
her Mathew Mackay-Smiths, Linda Tellington Jones', and a lot of other
good writer/riders advice.  I think there is a difference.  If you're a
reader, and another newbie isn't...you can be a very valuable source of
information. I doubt I had a single opinion of my own to pass along at
that time. :-) 

Angie

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