Ridecamp: [RC] LD Finish Line - I'll be there no matter what

.just don't think I could > do 50 but 
> I want to really bad. It just would seem so overwhelming at the >
beginning...though 25 doesn't seem like a big deal anymore....it > sure
did at > first though.

Sounds like me when I was trying to get up the nerve for a 100.  I
finally decided to quit thinking logically and just looked at the facts. 
There were people doing it that I just KNEW weren't any better than I
was.  If they could, I could. Period. I was right. 

 I told myself that I would try a 100 when a 50 was no longer all that
hard to me.  It took a long time...and a better horse. It never got easy
on my first horse.  I've told my daughter the same thing. When a 50 is
easy, we'll talk 100.

>>Maybe some of you  think people 
> like me shouldn't even be in the sport...we cheapen the "endurance">
title. 

I doubt you could ever find anyone at a ride who would intentionally try
to make you feel "unworthy".  The only time people get that impression is
on-line when someone who most of us know should have been doing 50's a
long time ago stays down in the 25's and taunts us like a yappy dog. If
you got hit by a bullet it was that you got caught in the crossfire...not
that someone was shooting at you.

 I know quite a few people and horses who don't need to move up.  Your
pony is *huge* compared to Comet, the pony in the SE who was under 12
hands and completed 1000 miles of endurance wearing nothing but a
stirrupless bareback pad.  He and his adult rider were *very* popular and
I don't think any of us in the top 10 of the fifty wanted to try to do
what she was doing!

Angie


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