[RC] Can you say "beer?" (was: New endurance concept) - k s swigartPaul Sidio said: NASCAR.... A bunch of cars go around and around the same track for 500 miles. How can you tell who is winning? They get lapped by each other, take pit stops... Boring!! It is noisy and smelly! It will never catch on..:) Who would want to watch that? Not me, but somehow a few hundred thousand folks show up at a track just about every week to watch. I hear they even show it on TV every once and while. Not too shabby for what started out as a bunch of moonshine running Good Old Boys running dirt roads in their souped up hot rods. People do not go to NASCAR races to watch cars go aroudn the same track for 500 miles (even though that doesn't take 10 hours, like a 100 mile endurance ride would); they go for the social event. The only way to make such a thing interesting with respect to endurance riding would be if there was something ELSE going on as well....and it would help if alchohol were involved. Rest assured, people would not come just to watch a bunch of horses go around a 1 mile track 100 times at excruciatingly slow speeds. Arabian flat track racing is going the way of the dodo because it is excruciatingly boring to watch slow arabians running 6-8 furlong races at their top speeds, even with the added "entertainment" of being allowed to bet on the outcome. People would rather watch quarter horse races (which are over in 20 seconds) or TB races where if the horses have to go all the way around the track it isn't like watching molasses, but even longer TB races are going the way of the dodo. The only reason they still exist is that they are "classics" and people have an irrational fondness for tradition. People also have a bit of a fondness for novelty as well, so you may get SOME interest in such an endurance ride in its early stages, but novelty quickly wears off and there is a long time between novelty and tradition where there has to be some kind of real interest in the event itself. kat Orange County, Calif. :) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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