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Re: [RC] managment and completion awards/oodfarm - m l

Lisa,
I must have missed some of the e-mails.  Sometimes I
don't check ridecamp for a week and I have 500 to look
at.  Fully understand what you are saying.  I love
everyones opinions.  That's what makes ridecamp so
great.

Lindy 
--- oddfarm <jsalas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You didn't see my follow up post. It was sarcastic,
but true.
I thought we were talking about LD and completion. I
thought people were not
happy with rewarding the hot-rodders and shouldn't
give BC's. I thought the
big gripe was how to slow down the "fast runners" in
a training ride and
take away the "reward" system. What was I thinking?

So if LD is only a "training ride".........And
everybody made the effort to
"train" effectively.....and nobody should get BC but
those who do finish
should get an "award" but it is not a race or
competition......but those who
don't finish the "training ride" should get nothing
or something of less
value than those who do because they didn't "train"
as hard and effort
doesn't count in "training"......What am I missing??

Of course a fifty and hundred mile is different.
They are not "training"
rides, are they? Only the fast and finishing ones
are rewarded. Even if they
do end up with a little treatment or a little limp,
they earned those prizes
by golly. Boy, am I confused.

Lisa Salas, The odd fArm
Yes, I am being sarcastic
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "m l" <lindym007@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "oddfarm" <jsalas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] managment and completion awards



Failing to complete a ride is a learning process. 

You

shouldn't be handing out completion awards just
because someone spent money on gas, training,etc.
Sometimes luck does come into play, but not that
often.  LD's is so people will learn how to handle
different situations.  The idea of endurance

riding is

to complete the ride under certain rules which is

an

accomplishment. People do know how much each ride
cost,
how much it cost for gas etc..  They don't if know
they are going to finish the ride and that is what

it

is about.  Being able to get your horse through a

ride

under different conditions, under a certain time
frame.  It is a way we are able to measure what we
know and where we need to improve in the horse

world.

If people have a problem with not getting an

award, go

in to another sport.  You don't get a raise at

your

job when you haven't completed your work.  Why

would

you reward a rider when they don't complete the

ride?

Doesn't make any rime or reason.

Lindy
--- oddfarm <jsalas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On completion awards, I don't remember if I gave

out

shirts before or after but I did give them to
everyone. You can ask my kids, husband and

trainer

Wendy and I think they will all agree, I am not

soft

hearted. In fact, trainer Wendy says I have no
heart, especially when she breaks her elbow and

I

still make her go get beer. (Who knew? Besides,

it

was just a six-pack, not like a case or anything
really heavy. She had another arm for crying out
loud!).

The reason I gave everyone a shirt was because

it

takes a lot to get to a ride. The hours of

training,

money spent on supplies and entry fees, gas and

time

off work for most people makes it hard for me to

let

them leave empty handed. Sometimes a
did-not-complete is out of the riders control

anyway

like a lost shoe, tripping, rider can't

finish,etc,.

Just because you didn't finish, doesn't mean you
didn't try really hard to finish.

And with all the griping about LD rides and

nobody

knowing how to ride them properly, why wouldn't

RM

reward a rider for making the smart choice not

to

complete if their horse wasn't capable and as

well

prepared as they could have been? Let's see...if

I

race and win, I get a shirt but I don't deserve

it

because it is just a LD training ride and I am
nothing but a hot-rod. If I don't race, go

overtime

or choose not to complete or get pulled, I don't
deserve to be acknowledged for what I attempted

to

do on a training ride. Things that make you
go...Hmmmm?

Now that I am back to riding Odd Todd, I will be
using a select few LD's for speed work. That's
training, right?
Lisa Salas, The Odd fArm
What would you attempt to do, if you knew you

could

not fail?



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