Fw: National Championship

["Lori Hayward" <haywardl@shentel.net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Lori Hayward <haywardl@shentel.net>
To: Carlos F. Crespo <ccrespo@nigma.com>
Date: Friday, May 29, 1998 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: National Championship


>Carlos wrote:
>
>>Ideally, there should be three  National Championship Rides. One  for 50
>>miles,  one race for one day 100 miles and one for 5 day 250 mile .
>>This would really encompass the full scope of the Sport of Endurance.  I
>>would even make it the Endurance Triple Crown Challenge and make
>>the horse and rider team that can win all three in the same year the
>>Endurance Triple Crown Champion. You can not beat this for recognition
>>and then we would only have to remember very few names for all times.
Being
>>one who believes in putting his money where his mouth is,
>>I will be the first to donate $5,000 to the person or organization willing
>>to take on  this challenge.
>>
>>If the AERC Board won't do it, how about some of you ride managers out
>>West?  I know many people have talked about it. How about
>>getting it done?  Florida , unfortunately , would not be an ideal place
for
>>it, otherwise we would do it.
>>
>>Carlos
>>Florida
>>
>The Old Dominion organization instituted a triple crown award similar to
>this and I think it is a great Idea!  As far as doing it on a National
scale
>even if the rides were in the middle of the country somewhere it would be
>hard for most of us to take off work to get to all 3 rides -- but maybe it
>could be organized at the Regional level similar to the OD.  It would be
>hard to fairly institute a National Champion based on one ride unless it
>could be held equal driving distance from every endurance rider in the
>country.
>
>Lori Hayward
>LIV2RYD in VA
>