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[RC] Endurance Rules in England and France (was: Be part of the solution) - Linda Marins----- Original Message ----- From: "Ranelle Rubin" <raneller@xxxxxxx> > > > If any of you have the links to any global endurance rules and regulations, > I would appreciate them. > > I love research! After my conversation with Leonard following the European championship, I checked out Endurance rules in France and England. Great Britain--Endurance Britain Rules: http://www.endurancegb.co.uk/html/rules.html France--French Federation Equestrian Rules: http://www.ffe.com/2/56/57/File//2008%20b/Reglement_FFE_Endurance_4_novembre_2007.pdf Wow, talk about codified! To get a rough translation, click on: http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en Or for page-by-page cut as text out of the .pdf: http://translate.google.com/translate_t?langpair=fr|en Short version of the results: both countries have rules similar to Australia's. Near as I can make out from Google's lousy translation, the French have both time-limited events, with different levels having different min/max times (more qualified, more experienced, the faster you can go), and something that translates as "freestyle," where, once qualified, you can go as fast as you want. In contrast, refer to AERC's LD rule L5.1: L5.1 There may be no minimum time limit for completion. (http://www.aerc.org/upload/Rules_2005.pdf) Which is exactly the *opposite* of the English and French schemas. The difference between the US vs. Australia, GB, France, and I don't know who else--haven't checked--seems to be what I referred to last month as the "vertical integration" of distance riding events on a *national* level. For whatever historical reasons, in the US there are sharp organizational demarcations among groups that run pleasure trail rides, vs. groups that sanction competitive trail rides (whether heavily-judged like NACTR or P & R-only like ECTRA), vs. groups that sanction endurance rides. (As we saw, there is lots of "crossover" by individuals.) In these other countries, the effort--on a national level--is to view all trail riding events (short, medium, long, minimum-time, no minimum time) as just levels along a continuum. I was particularly impressed that the Endurance GB site lists every organized trail ride it can get anybody to tell it about on a unified calendar. (Unfeasible in the US, I know, due to sheer volume if nothing else.) But it was nice to see that one's 15 mile pleasure ride would be viewed by the national Endurance organization as a non-competitive training ride worthy of mention. ("I'm not just on a pleasure ride, I'm *really* training for international competition!" :-) Linda Marins =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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