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This is very true.  My horse Bear and I actually qualified for the 100 mile NC ride this year by virtue of our first (and only, to date) 100 mile ride this past May...which has been a source of constant amusement to me, considering we puttered along and finished 20 minutes before cutoff.  ROFL.  But I wasn't going to enter the NC.  I *do* want to ride the OD trail someday, but I can do it without going to the NC ride.  Now, if the NC ride had been somewhere really cool that was not normally available to ride, I might have considered it, just for the sake of riding a neat trail that was only available for the NC.

Dawn in East Texas
and Bear (Mom says we're doing another 100 next weekend!)

 

On 10/20/06, Tx Trigger <txtrigger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Instead of asking why more in the west, don't travel to the east for rides, maybe you should start with, why some from the east, will travel to the west for a ride.  Then see if those reasons could be swapped, to have more travel "east" to a ride. 

 

And, as far as a NC ride, many of us are not ones to "race", so riding the NC is just another ride. If the ride was offered in a way that had spectacular scenery, a tough, but doable challenge, and was not someplace that I could normally ride, I'd maybe consider one.  But it has to offer me something extra special to attend as a rider who just rides to finish, towards the back of the back.

 

Jonni