[RC] [RC] For Rob, on safety nets and 100 milers - Deanna German
Omigosh - what a great post, Rob. You said it better than I did.
I lent my copy of Julie Suhr's book to a friend who aspires to do endurance and her summarizing comment was that it occurred to her as she was reading that life might have gotten a little too cushy for most of us.
Deanna
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STANDING AND APPLAUDING AT OUR HOUSE.? Thank you, Rob.
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Laura Hayes and Mark McConnon DVM
Brocton, NY
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Rob Losey wrote:
>>>>I?can't speak of? endurance, I'm too new and will never be good at it because?
I'm too old. I can speak of life because I am old, though I never got real good?
at it.
Years ago great challenges were faced and overcome by hard working men and?
women. Settling this county. Crossing the west. Facing the dust bowl, WW1, the?
Great Depression and WW2. You had to succeed. Failure meant death, one great?
motivator.
Now we can't hardly move without tripping on safety nets. Fill out the right?
government paper work and you'll have housing, food, and enough money to buy?
your beer and cigarettes. Fail in business, just file for bankruptcy.
Yes these safety nets are good things, they show our humanity. But many have?
found it comfortable to just live in a safety net. If you don't try you can't?
fail. Late in life I found endurance. Riding without a net. Work hard, learn?
all you can, train, condition and prepare your horse. Know how to read your?
horse. Your horse will give it's all to care for you. You must learn to care?
for it.
Risk of failure is what made this country great. Preparing and overcoming that?
risk is what drew me to endurance. That's what makes endurance endurance. I?
choose goals more carefully now. This maybe my last goal. In endurance I still?
have a long way to go. Please don't string up one more safety net under one of?
the last true challenges left out there.
This year 50s. I may never ride a 100. Without the challenge and risk out?
failure I may not want to.
Rob and Annabelle
PS - The best book I ever read was "Ten Feet Tall, Still". There may never be?
another Julie Suhr. I've never met one, male or female. There will never be?
another if all the challenges she faced are all removed, watered down, and?
