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Re: [RC] Completion Awards - cschiro

Gosh, now I feel bad. I volunteered at a ride for the first time to get some 
more hands-on experience with endurance rides before I actually compete. 
They gave me a shirt (they gave t-shirts to everyone, including volunteers, so 
it wasn't a "completion" award) that I wear alot. But I guess people that see 
me wearing it who didn't go to that particular ride might assume I completed 
the ride.  
So maybe next time I wear it I should first take a permanent marker and write 
on the back of it(I'll have more room that way): 
"I didn't win this ride, I didn't complete this ride, I didn't even RIDE this 
ride...I just enjoyed it."

Christina



From: "Beth Bennett" <endurance4me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2004/07/14 Wed PM 03:53:53 EDT
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [RC]   Completion Awards

...Needless to say, when I saw 
one of my non-horsey friends wearing one just because they KNEW somebody 
affiliated with our Arabian Horse Association, it flew all over me.  I told 
her outright that she didn't have any right to be wearing that shirt because 
she had not earned it.  That is honestly how I feel.

It is just my opinion that the mentality of giving a ride shirt (bag, 
sponge, mug, etc. . .) to anyone who shows up only adds to the ever-growing 
mentality of some riders that the ride owes you something other than a place 
to come and enjoy the sport.

Beth Bennett
Chickamauga, GA
(Wishing desparately that Longstreet's Charge would be held again)

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