Re: [RC] Endurance riding/racing growing pains - Heidi Smith
>Could we sit down with FEI and plan the locations of the next 10
World events, making sure that the countries with the larger numbers of
membership in their local organizations had a representative number of events in
their country?
Having
events on "our" type of terrain is likely the best way to make
international endurance more like "our" rides. That said--FEI would likely
be thrilled to have offers of venues for years in advance. The problem is
finding individuals willing and able to put them on. It is a complicated
and expensive task, takes months away from one's work and family if one is an
actual part of the OC, and takes literally hundreds of volunteers. It is
also a lot of fun, but unless one has the time and the access to the funding, as
well as the trail savvy to be an RM in the first place and the organizational
savvy to run such an endeavor... Well, you get my drift. We don't
exactly have people standing in line begging for the job.
