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RE: [RC] [RC] green ribbons and such - mentors - Nancy Mitts

Diane,
I would have tried to be more helpful if I could hear better, LOL. (I was on a gray with a lady on a Bay, & you fell in behind us pretty close to the start. Of course once the storm started conversation was pretty much out of the question. At one point all our horses stopped and turned butts to the wind. I think you disappeared somewhere before the water tank though.

The only drawback to newbies marking themselves is you don't get to pick who you'd like to learn from. Just because somebody likes talking doesn't mean they are the best to learn from.

Nancy Mitts

Please Reply to: Diane Roby diane_roby2002@xxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

I'm a newbie and will consider myself that way for
quite some more time.  I've done 2 LD's with my pony
but I'm still nervous about going to rides and
possibly making a fatal error.

I like the idea of a green ribbon or some other way
to identify myself because I'm really not comfortable
walking up to people I don't know and asking questions.
I'm always concerned that I might be interrupting
or otherwise disrupting their ride.

At the L&S ride in June there were two nice ladies
that let me tag along with them during the first
loop and if it wasn't for their presence I would
have pulled during the first 15 minutes of the ride.
On the second loop I was lucky enough to literally
"find" another extremely nice lady to ride with as
I had gone the wrong way up the hill not once but
twice and between us we found the ribbons we'd missed.
In both these cases just having someone who at least
appeared to know what they were doing (just kidding)
was enough to get me through it.  I think knowing that
there was someone willing to at least guide me
through the longer distances would be incentive enough
for me to try them.



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