Ridecamp: Re: [RC] LD

In a message dated 6/24/02 2:05:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time, lanconn@xxxxxxx 
writes:

<< I fully support the LD program in Endurance, although I agree with Roger
 that  National Awards for this are relatively meaningless.. >>

Response:

I feel the opposite!  Not about the Awards, I mean, but about the treatment!  
I feel as though the LD's are the first step to 50's and riders need to 
understand what they are getting themselves into to accomplish, to the best 
of their ability, a 50 miler when they reach that plateau with their horse.  
A do not feel that teaching someone to stroll along on an LD is the best to 
adequately prepare them for a 50.  Isn't that what the LD's where originally 
created for?  Training for longer distances?  Shouldn't they be treated 
exactly the same as longer distances so they fully understand the concept of 
what their 50 is going to be like?  Who cares about the awards!  Just the 
training and treatment is what I would be concerned about if I ran across 
this "pushing the LD's back" behavior.  

Please forgive me if I am going on a rampage about something that had nothing 
to do with the original e-mail.  I did not read the original one, only 
subsequent ones!

Ginger

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