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Maybe I'm just strange, but the reason I love doing 100 mile rides is they
let me ride longer.  That's what I love about this sport, being able to go
out and ride a horse for a long, long way.  What Julie said about 100's
being a mental game is right on. If you have a positive attitude, and you
are physically comfortable in the saddle, and if you have a good, reliable
horse, you can do a 100 mile ride.  I started to get all psyched out about
trying my first 100, which was the Tevis.  I decided my theme was that "I
knew that my horse could do it, I knew that I could do it, I just needed a
little luck."  It really surprised me that it was as easy as it seemed.

The most miserable people I see during 100s are people who are not
physically comfortable.  They might have a sore knee and can't trot, or they
are having a piece of tack rub them through to the muscle, or probably the
most common is being rubbed raw somewhere.  If you can do a fifty mile ride
and come out unscathed, (being a little tired does not count), you can
finish a 100.  You will, however, be sleepy at the end of a 24 hour long
ride. But that's okay, because it's a good sleepy.

I highly recommend trying one.  They really are the best rides.  And if you
get pulled, don't worry- it happens to the best of them.  There will always
be another ride another day.

Nick Warhol
Hayward, Ca.


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