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I'm small, my horse is 14.1, so she's small too.
Good start. We should be able to win.
Ah, but, sigh... ...I live where it's very flat, so I
can't train on hills. So shouldn't there by a handicap
system against people who've been training on hills, otherwise
they have an unfair advantage over me, don't they?
Along the same lines, better handicap all the locals, because
they have an unfair advantage over people coming in from other
states.
And, while we're at it, handicap anyone with more than one
crew member, because they're not working as hard at vet
checks (you know, just sitting around eating bonbons, while
their horse gets waited upon).
And, perhaps handicap people with nice rigs - because they
get better sleep the night before, compared to us people
sleeping in the back of pickups?
Oh, and my horse is young, so she might spook on the trail
and cause me to fall off, slowing us down, so shouldn't
there be a handicap system against older, better trail horses?
How 'bout the fact that my husband has bad knees. OK, so we
need to handicap everyone with good knees, to make that fairer.
What else? Oh, because I'm riding slower, when I get to the bottom
of those canyons, it's much hotter compared to when the front
runners went through three hours before me. Better handicap them,
because they're not riding in the same heat as me....
etc.. etc..
Marathon runners are not shaped like football players and vice
versa. Accept your limitations, go out and ride and have fun,
and stop worrying about the damn prize money/adulation from
adoring fans. Doesn't self-satisfaction at your own achievements
count for anything?
-- ************************************************************** Lucy Chaplin Trumbull - elsie@calweb.com Displaced English person in Sacramento, CAhttp://www.calweb.com/~elsie http://www.calweb.com/~trouble **************************************************************
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