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If riders don't come to 100 mile rides and support them, how long do you 
think 100 mile rides will last?  A ride manager works just as hard to put on 
a 100 miler for 25 people as he would to put it on for 250.  We had a long 
discussion on Ridecamp not too long ago, and it seems fairly obvious that 
many riders nowadays prefer 50s or even LDs because they can get back to 
camp, take a shower and relax.

This is a shameless plug for our ride on August 20.

Barbara McCrary, ride mgr.
Swanton Pacific 75/100
"The Most Beautiful Trail in the World"
Website: http://members.cruzio.com/~bigcreekranch/

See our website for information, photos, and a printable ride entry

P.S.  Given the two mileages on our event, there are consistently twice as 
many 75 mile riders as 100 mile riders.  (They like finishing before dark.) 
Joe, I don't think you have ridden Swanton Pacific yet, have you?????



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Long" <jlong@xxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <AERCMembersForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:38 PM
Subject: [RC] 100 Mile One Day Rides


> If we ever lost the 100-mile one-day rides, our sport would never be the 
> same,
> and be much, much poorer for it.  I don't believe that will happen, 
> though.
> Sure, a majority of riders may never make the attempt, and a majority of 
> those
> that do may do it only once, to prove themselves.  But there will always 
> be
> horses and riders who rise to the greatest experience of all, and who will 
> come
> back to it again and again.
>
> I don't want to offend anyone, but I appreciated again after the Big Horn 
> that a
> fifty-mile ride is, in significant ways, really only "half a ride."  That 
> is not
> intended to put them down, they are good rides in their own way, and I 
> hope to
> keep riding 50's for many years yet.  But, I pray to God, please allow me 
> to go
> on riding one hundred miles with my partner.  There is nothing closer to 
> heaven
> on this earth.
>
> --
>
> Joe Long
> jlong@xxxxxxxx
> http://www.rnbw.com
>
>
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