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Angie,

Not everyone is lucky enough to have you around to mentor them. Until we 
can clone you, fun rides are probably a good ideal for some folks ;-) .

Truman

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> > At the Oakland Hills ride last year, there were young people and 
> > older  folks doing a 7 or 11 miler 'starter ride' (can't remember
> >    
> exactly 
>  
>
> > what  they called it). 
> >    
>
> I've got some beginners who will be coming to their first ever rides
> soon. They'll be doing the 25. That sounded like a challenge to them at
> first, then  I explained to them that they'll probably be done in 4 hrs
> or less assuming they trot which they plan to do. They were disappointed.
> They ride 4 hrs. all the time." What's the use of all this camping and
> such for that?" is sort of their reaction. I don't want them getting the
> habit of considering an endurance ride an "afternoon out" and loading
> their horses right up and heading home, but hit's hard to tell them they
> should stay when they're done by 11:30 AM.
>
>  


--

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite 
of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."    Niels Bohr 
-- Nobel Laureate, Physics




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