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My college roommate from Idaho recruited me, years later when she'd  
been doing LD on her QH-Arab Palomino.  She tended to be the turtle  
even then, though she's done 2500 or so of 50s since. I was also  
hooked on my first ride, despite heat exhaustion from not knowing I  
should be drinking in 105 degree weather, while RIDING. <d'oh>  My  
first piece of endurance tack was a simple Griffins water bottle  
holder the collapsible one with the rawhide ties (i still use that on  
on my bareback pad!)  It was a present from my friend.  My horses  
were too old (in 20s) and too young (2), so I went to Idaho to ride  
on borrowed (Morris) horses.

Started reading RC very early, and compiled a "Best of Ridecamp"  
binder of the "good stuff" in 9 categories, 3" thick, that I loaned  
out to my recruits, and sent a copy to Steph and John.  Once my  
critter was old enough, I had a few people at my barn who were  
enthusiastically training too.  I didn't own a truck or trailer, that  
was a limiting factor.  After some frustration with a used truck and  
bumper pull, I bought a diesel as a daily use vehicle and have been  
driving one ever since, and bought a used 4h gooseneck trailer so  
that my friends could come along--it was fun talking about those days  
recently at a remodeling/warming party one of them had.  I still have  
that trailer, one of the old good Sundowners.

I still have that binder, and the "save as text" source somewhere-- 
with sections on feeds/feeding, tack, etc. but most important were  
the humor and inspiration sections.  That's where Julie Suhr's  
stories went, and Angie's of course.  Pam bought me a subscription to  
Trail Blazer which had subscription fulfillment troubles even back  
then, which is where I read (and saved) Angie's sponge story.

Then of course there were the ride management years, where part of  
that was helping new riders be more prepared for my events.  Lots of  
phone support and some railing at the general membership meetings at  
convention about how we needed to better mentor new riders.  Was part  
of the mentor list that Steph started.

I never overtrained, but my mare and I did have our share of injuries  
to work through, which delayed our getting there and consistency.   
She of course suffered the Great Saddle Hunt (5 saddles) and my  
ignorance of long toe low heel (is THAT why she always needed  
trimming by 5 weeks?  I though she just grew a lot of foot. <sigh>)

Lynne
dryest SoCal ever

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On Mar 30, 2007, at 7:04 PM, rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> There was absolutely no doubt I was totally, completely hooked from
> the first ride. So, my lineage was that I was recruited by my
> App/mule riding friend, who was recruited by the Arab riding
> endurance rider who had spotted her reading a horse magazine at their
> elementary school's car pickup line and recruited her.
>
> Those guys had the old Linda & Wentworth Tellington-Jones book that
> they lived by and loaned it to me along with some early 80's
> yearbooks. When I started recruiting people I photocopied every
> article out of 10 years worth of Equus that mentioned endurance &
> training and we loaned the big brown envelope full of them to every
> new rider we brought in and we watched Darolyn's Farnum endurance/ct
> tape. I listened to Matthew Mackay Smith's lecture over and over. The
> main image I remember is the coathanger. If you bend it over and over
> in the same place, it eventually breaks. That was what kept happening
> to me. Too much stress...not enough time to heal. I train so much
> less now to go so much farther.
>
> Angie

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