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[karen Clanin <kclanin@fix.net>]

>From: karen Clanin <kclanin@fix.net>
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>Back in the beginning I suspect AERC was much like any other club, you paid dues and had an initiation called an 'endurance ride', pass the initiation and you were an "endurance rider". The reason for this club was to promote "endurance rides" because everyone had so much fun. As with many clubs, lack of money to promote rides became a problem.  Someone came up with the idea to offer "samples" called training rides.  People will like the "training ride" which has now become known as "limited distance" so much that they would join the club and take the initiation of doing a 50 miler and become an "endurance rider".  
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>Somewhere along the way two things happened. First, the club's income increased from all the mew members and AERC became more like a business.  also during this time ride managers found that the extra income from the LD program had become a very important part of having their rides break even.  Second, some of these new riders liked the LD rides so much that is all they wanted to do. 
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> and has become an intrical part in maintaining the survival of the sport of endurance riding.
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