From: Rides 2 Far
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 10:16 PM
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Subject: [RC] another weight division question
>> So, what are the ranges for the weight divisions?
Featherweight: less than 161
Lightweight: 161-185
Middleweight 186-210
Heavyweight 211+
Junior: Under age 16
You can weigh too much for your declared division, but not too little. Weight includes all tack...except in FEI (someone said that's "Friggin Endurance Idiots?" where for some strange reason we don't weigh bridles, water bottles...and now they even exlude easyboots. (sorry Karen)
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I do believe that one is mine, although my phrase is Foreign Endurance Idiots, but friggen sounds just as good, and is less likely to offend the French. Anyway, I'm guilty, and I thought I'd own up to it before someone impolitely accused another of writing such trash. It is I who did it; guilty, guilty, guilty.
Speaking of "I'm Outta Here," and how insensitive some folks appear to be sometimes on Ridecamp (who me?), I do remember what my Momma once told me. She said that if you cannot say anything nice about anyone, and there's a particular individual who really pisses you off, than my Momma told me it's probably better to go up to them directly and punch their lights out, just so they know where you're coming from. haha, jk.
I'm considering driving up to the Biltmore next month, sans horses, with 5 dogs (to fit in better) so I can raise havoc with the riders like all the loose folks running around without a leash, and their dogs, did to me and my kin there last September. (One clear memory I have from that ride is it's proximity to the Ashville airport. The ride was held right after 9/11, and every time a large jet flew overhead, everyone in camp looked up and followed the jet's flight path. This was quite abnormal and not just idle curiosity.)
I've never been to a ride with such a vast amount of ground comprising the camp site before. Throw in 300 onlookers, with the 250 riders, and a ton of loose dogs, people driving their trucks and cars up and down that one road the riders all must travel on at the start, make part of the ride FEI and make sure you can't differentiate the non FEI riders from those that are, and I find myself having a burning desire to witness all this pain and suffering as a spectator; maybe, even a volunteer. By itself, endurance is a difficult sport; throw in all those extras like they do at the Spring Biltmore and I think the level of difficulty goes up two notches. Add to that FEI and I think it just hit the mark of absurdity.
Hey, Jim, you going this year? lol.
cya,
Howard (if Jim goes I'm going up to help him crew so we can knock off those 30 seconds)
