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Re: [RC] [RC] "moving down" - Kathy MayedaI've "moved down" kicking and screaming. I have older horses, and the younger one has forced me to join the Parelli club to take care of some training issues and is not ready yet. I don't really feel satisfaction in riding LD's. I ride LD's because I have had friends who had wanted the endurance experience. I have fun with that, but my intention is not to be a career LD rider yet, but maybe that will be in the cards in the future. I probably wouldn't be riding in any endurance event if it wasn't for them, but I think it's a good thing to show my face at the endurance rides to know that there still is a wonderful community out there, so they are doing me a favor. It also stimulates me enough to get me back into doing real endurance some day.
I become a more careless rider when I ride LD's. When I took a friend to SASO, I bagged out of being in camp for the evening to do something else, didn't really do a good job of putting on the Epics, wore a yoga top that really didn't offer much support - all of which I wouldn't have done if I was doing a 50. So, I got pulled because the Epic was on crooked and made my mare a little off and I complained to my friend that my yoga top wasn't enough support - so I got razzed at the next meeting for "Kathy was so ho-hum about the LD, she didn't even wear a bra". And I didn't do a whole lot of conditioning for it either.
I don't see where there is limited success for the dual purpose at all. I'm glad to get out there and ride with my newbie LD friends. When I describe myself now, I say "I used to ride endurance." And that's the truth, so be it. I don't see the need for recognizing my LD miles as "endurance miles". Whether or not you call it a training ride is a moot point to me, because EVERY ride is a training ride to a certain extent.
K.
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Cindy Collins <c_collins@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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