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Thank you Heidi for the great history lesson. I especially liked the 
paragraph below and I hope any future changes to LD do not in any way 
restore the racing pressure.

At 07:00 AM 10/30/2006 Monday, you wrote:
> These changes have allowed the LD program to happen, basically.  As 
> the rides used to be (sanctioned distances), they were really 
> tragic.  AERC was so badly "burned" by the shorter distances that 
> they made the bottom line 50 miles and for a long time wouldn't hear 
> of anything else.  But rides continued to hold non-sanctioned 
> "short" rides (which was what we called them locally here in the NW 
> before AERC got back into the game) in conjunction with 50s and up, 
> as David stated.  And by taking away the racing pressure, they 
> became pleasant and safe distances.

Don Huston  <donhuston@xxxxxxx> 



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