Post By Post, Virtual Tevis 2024

Awareness of the outside world. The test by Chipmunk and Jung was poetry. That is how eventing dressage should be done.

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The other pile of loot from our Virtual Tevis, 17 blog posts, including today. The above is a screenshot. Links below.

Titles

After the first few entries, I noticed I had backed into a theme, X By X. So I kept it going. Some are more of a stretch than others, and in one place I duplicated. Overall, a fun side quest.

Problems

While I can generally spin a blog post from promises and moonbeams, I struggled in the middle. We walked around the pasture only gets me so far. Still, if thin content slowed me down, I would not still be blogging after all these years. So, I yammered on.

Blogs

… or lack thereof. The first year was able to link to seven other blogs. That gave all of us more to read. Not so much anymore. People are still talking about their rides but not on formal blogs, or at least not ones that I could find. If there are sites I’ve missed, please LKM .

Entries

These days the majority of the reporting appears to be a photo and a brief recap on the Tevis Cup Virtual Ride Facebook page. It also seems that the virtual ride has settled down to horses and riders for whom the virtual ride is a useful goal.

In the beginning, our snail pace put us at the bottom of the pack. Not that placing matters. This year, anytime I checked the results, we were hanging out in the middle of hundreds of entries.

The Finish Line

With this post, we close the door on Virtual Tevis 2024.

Results Recap (repeated for consistency)

Virtual Tevis Cup 2024, 100 Miles in 100 Days, 10 April to 21 July.

Rodney, 100 Miles, 10 April to 24 June.

Milton, 100 Miles, 10 April to 1 July.

VT blog posts, reverse chronological

Virtual Tevis Posts [Archives]

Onwards!
Katherine

2 thoughts on “Post By Post, Virtual Tevis 2024”

Anonymous says:

July 30, 2024 at 5:32 am

Placing does matter a little bit.

Congratulations on the middle!

Louise
Virtual Brush Box says:

August 1, 2024 at 10:42 am

I think the Tevis folks would prefer not to have placings for virtual. They never have any on the list of finishers. But they use a race results site to track mileage and that automatically generates rankings.