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[RC] Not having done a 100 - The Winters, Randy or Cheryl================= I must agree with Susan K (a good friend of mine) - get advice for riding 100 milers from people who have done 100 milers. That's why I have a problem with Nancy Loving's book & her advice on 100 mile rides... her record is 750 miles - no 100s. Susie Jones, AERC# 7997 23 100 mile completions ========================== I think numbers are sometimes only that. The experience that one brings to the sport is sometimes brought by a different degree of expertise than just riding. As for writing books, as with many authors, it is not just their personal experience, but research garnered from multiple resources to produce the finished book. Dr. Loving, and other top vets, who have limited ride experience in competition., have been involved with endurance for many years in a capacity that many of us will never experience and that is as people who have vetted more top level rides than many of us will ever see ourselves, much less participate in. Having worked closely with these events, both as ride vets and as a treatment vets, they have seen more about what can happen and is going wrong and see things that sometimes are lost to riders in the heat of the competition. They have had to deal with the metabolic crashes, the lameness issues and deaths in ways that some of us will only imagine ( thank god). Their knowledge and insight is brought to our sport from a different angle. I think we have to be careful about how we qualify people who can give advice other than just miles ridden. I have personally seen a few riders who have the miles and still no clue. Thank goodness that is not usually the case. Cheryl ============================================================ REAL endurance is eating egg salad sandwiches for 3 days straight! Heidi Sowards... but then again... REAL endurance is riding behind someone who ate egg salad sandwiches for 3 days straight! ~ author unkown ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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