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this story is priceless!!!  we are a crazy bunch...

Steph

On Aug 21, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Marinera@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Sometime in the 70s there was a 100 miler starting at midnight and  
> a 50 miler
> starting at 6 or 7 a.m. the same day just a few miles apart. Much  
> of the two rides was on the same trail.  I decided I could do both.  
> I started at midnight, rode the first horse 50 miles and handed him  
> to a friend.  I went to the other ride site, made it in time,  and  
> rode Gazal  fifty miles.  I then returned to the first now well  
> rested horse and continued on the 100 miler.  It was all rather ill  
> fated. The first  horse was a terrible spooker and had dumped me  
> twice in the dark in the early morning.  When I returned to him the  
> other 100 milers were now well ahead of me and I was out there  
> alone with people complaining that I was holding up the vet stops.   
> He (his name was Comet) dumped me again and I quit.
>
> Because we were a new organization, we had few rules and I had not  
> broken any. I apparently was the only one who recognized the  
> possibility of doing two rides in one 24 hour period, or perhaps  
> the others were less demented than I.   Now you cannot have two  
> rides on the same day in more or less the same location and I am  
> sure there are other rules that apply also.    But I wish now I  
> had  accomplished my goal. I know I could have done it if I had  
> just managed to stay aboard the horse.
> Julie
>
>
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