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Re: [RC] True Endurance Riders - rides2farJulie, you will ALWAYS be an endurance rider, you just won't be riding endurance rides. At Million Pines this year they asked everyone who was a 25 miler to raise their hands. I was entered in the 25 to ride with Bekki Crippen but didn't raise my hand. A friend called me a snob but the way they stated it I felt they were grouping the riders and I did not consider myself a 25 miler. If they'd said, "Everyone entered in the 25 mile ride tomorrow raise your hand" I probably would have raised it. As it was I elevated anyway so I told the truth after all. As far as I'm concerned doing an endurance ride is like when a race horse "breaks its maiden". Once you've done it you are an endurance rider, you can't undo it by doing some more 25's. I am also a member of SERA (Better check and see if I paid my dues...I know I've been a member of SERA for the last 10 years at least) and every time someone speaks with authority about how we want things in the Southeast and it is totally opposite of what I feel it bothers me. We have plenty of 25 milers coming up and that's a good thing but just because I, or a new 25 miler happens to be from the SE does not either of us are rabid "LD rights" advocates. I don't think that makes me a snob, just a traditionalist. Angie ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! ============================================================ You don't have to be a 100-mile rider or a multi-day rider to be an endurance rider, but if you want to experience the finest challenges our sport has to offer, you need to do both of those. ~ Joe Long ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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