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    Re: [RC] National IAHA Championship on TV - Joe Long


    On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:24:15 EST, SandyDSA@xxxxxxx wrote:
    
    >In a message dated 11/8/2002 6:04:47 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
    >bolinger@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
    
    >> Look at the winning time for that race...It was something ridiculous like 8 
    >> 1/2 hours for 100 miles.
    
    >WHAT?????? Oh GOOD GOD! What idiot is riding their horse at thsi kind of 
    >pace? If what you saw you saw - and of course, you wouldn't bring it up if 
    >you didn't - clearly that pace was profoundly idiotic - and cruel. I cannot 
    >imagine what I would tell MY horsey friends in that instance. 8 hours is a 
    >respectable finishing time for a lot of 50 MILERS!!!! I don't know about you 
    >guys but I am appalled.
    >s
    
    Kahlil and I finished an honest 100-mile ride in under nine hours, and
    we finished third (second place was a Junior I sponsored).  I
    literally had a runaway at the finish.  We did the last leg, 15 miles,
    in one hour flat because I didn't want to sprint a downhill near the
    end.  The last mile was up a hill, then down.  I sprinted up as fast
    as he could run trying to pull away from the other Senior rider, and
    when I tried to slow Kahlil at the top I couldn't slow him down.
    There were people in a pickup truck following us, hollering and
    cheering at the last-mile sprint -- the driver said we went up the
    hill at over 25 MPH.  We did get Best Condition.
    
    That was on a (mostly) flat course, on excellent footing, and a cool
    day.
    
    Oh, we did a sub-8-hour "100" once, but that was a short trail.
    
    -- 
    
    Joe Long
    jlong@xxxxxxxx
    http://www.rnbw.com
    
    
    
    
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