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Re: [RC] "status" rides - Barbara McCrary

I agree with Dabney.
 
Barbara Mc
----- Original Message -----
From: Dana B.
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 6:19 AM
Subject: [RC] "status" rides

Dabney responds:
" They enter these rides for Status.  I've noticed over the
years mentions in RC posts like: "My horse is not ready (or whatever) for a
100, but one day I'd like to do Tevis."
 
 
 
Whoa there Dabney!  Your statement might be true for some, but I really doubt that it's the case for many riders.  I can tell you that there's a slug of folks I know who have uttered or thought those words and who could not care a whit about "status."  For many of us Tevis is *the* ride that ingited the fires, so to speak.  There are tons of local folks who have no interest in becoming "endurance riders" and doing other rides, yet they do Tevis because of the allure of the ride and the trails.  Tevis is not a ride, it's an incurable disease...:-)
 
Do people climb Everest because of "status"?  Perhaps.  But I think it takes ! much more than pursuit of "status" to even get to basecamp.
 
I'd love to do all the rides.  But if someone told me I could only do one it would be Tevis.  Not because of the "status," but because I would never have known about this sport had it not been for Tevis and thus it holds a very special place in my heart.
 
Dana Baldwin,
"who's horse is not ready (or whatever) for a 100, but one day I'd like to do Tevis"


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