This is the third of three articles that I wrote for Endurance News after the 2001 XP ride. This one was about the accomplishments of the horses and riders. It was pretty amazing when you think about it. Here is an excerpt:
230 horses were ridden 67,400 AERC miles by 104 riders in eight weeks. That [...]
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This was the 2nd of 3 articles I wrote for Endurance News following the 2001 XP. I said that to Bo a lot today. It was funny, kind of like the song “Jimmy Crack Corn”….only it was more like “I know you wanna go faster and I don’t care…you wanna go faster, and I don’t care…we ain’t gonna go faster…so there! (because I do care) Not that there isn’t anything wrong [...] I’m a little slow with this post but haven’t had a lot of time to really think about planning what I’d like to accomplish this ride season with my two horses. I’ll start with posting photos along with links to the results. Then next, will work on a ride story. I love it when the horses reach new milestones. Interesting that it worked out this year that on the same day Chief reached 9,000 miles I reached 24,000. It is kind of weird to think that I have ridden 15,000 miles *without Chief*. Every single mile on the endurance trail that Chief has done has [...] The AERC office got the results online today from the Grand Canyon ride – so now it’s official – Chief has his 9,000 miles! Actually, he’s at 9,075. I started my photo albums from the Grand Canyon ride with the middle day – because that’s the day Chief reached 9,000 lifetime miles . It seems like I was just starting him. My how time flies. He has really been a nice horse for me. Here is a list of the XP Medal horses for 2009. Photo by Steve Bradley. Chief made 9k AERC miles today plus XP Gold Medal! Riding Bo tomorrow, I figure Chief deserves to get a day off and I really want to ride Bo. It’s a tossup though, because I sure love riding Cheefy…we had a great day today. Weather is beautiful! [...] This is short notice, however — I thought I’d do what I could to help out. I already sent a letter to the Hall of Fame Committee in support of Dave Rabe for HOF. It sure seems like the miles have just flown by this ride season. The new AERC point standings came out today and Chief and Bo are both doing pretty well. They are first and second in my weight division plus Chief is 2nd overall in the West region plus is now also placing 5th in [...] I just finished updating the year to date rider mileage results to include the Fort Schellbourne XP ride. We are also keeping track of each of the riders horses mileage as well. At the end of the year awards will be given based upon rider mileage as well as horse mileage. Tomorrow is the last day for the Fort Schellbourne XP. So far I have ridden Chief 200 miles and hope to ride him 50 more and make the whole 250 on him. The weather has been really great all week and the trails are stunning this year with more wildflowers than I have ever seen [...] |
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