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Precisely my point.

Barbara


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diane Trefethen" <tref@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] Rider Drugs


> 5) Kat said, "Personally, I don't understand it.  But that is probably 
> because I have never had to drug myself to get through an endurance ride". 
> Ahh.... and here is the crux of Kat's misapprehensions.  She hasn't 
> reached the point in her life when after getting out of bed in the 
> morning, she must hobble for 10 or 20 minutes till she gets "warmed up". 
> She doesn't know how it feels to need a mounting block because without it 
> she could not get up on her horse - AT ALL.  Anyone who does have these 
> experiences regularly knows full well the incredible relief from pain that 
> accompanies the consumption of an analgesic and NONE of us would want to 
> be barred from distance riding because, for want of a better phrase, we 
> got old.



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