Volunteer Information

The Sport of Long Distance Trail Riding depends on many volunteers, all Ride Managers can use you! What a great opportunity to get involved in a sport where you can breathe fresh air, learn the aspects of distance riding, earn volunteer awards all at the same time!

Volunteering is quite possibly the best way to learn about endurance.  Not only do you get to see what a real endurance ride in your area is like, but you’ll also get the opportunity to learn valuable things about how to do your best at the ride and get to know your local endurance community.  It’s often said that you learn more about endurance riding from volunteering one day than you will after completing ten rides.

Volunteers help build, maintain and protect the trails we so enjoy riding, biking, and walking on! Get involved… in the conservation, restoration and preservation of our trails… ensure that public lands remain open to recreational equestrian activity, assist the various federal, state and private agencies in their maintenance and management of public lands, they encourage and solicit active participation in the use of the public land resources by equestrian users and the general public, but most of all spend countless hours annually working on the trails with public agencies. In many cases this is the only way to keep some of the trails open! We strongly encourage all equestrians’ hikers, bikers, nature lovers to GET INVOLVED at any level they can, it is the least we can do for ourselves, our future and generations to come!

It is at the local, community level where successful trail networks begin.
– BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY, Community Trails Handbook, 1997

Volunteering Do’s and Don’t at a Distance Ride!

Volunteering can be an exciting, growing, enjoyable experience. It is truly gratifying to serve a cause, practice one's ideals, work with people, solve problems, see benefits, and know one had a hand in them. --Harriet Naylor
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Long Distance Ride Volunteers and Ride Safety

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is just that little extra. ~Unknown
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Volunteering: a learning experience

I wondered why somebody didn't do something. Then I realized, I am somebody. — Source Unknown
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How many volunteers it takes to make a distance event?

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering: Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good. - Ivan Scheier
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Volunteer Award Program

Trail Workdays, Rides or Clinics!  Interested? Need Volunteers? We can help spread the word! If your organization, association, club would like to participate in our program, we can advertise your trail workdays in our newsletters and web site calendar. You do not need to be a member of SEDRA to participate, everyone is welcome! Only SEDRA...
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Upcoming Events

Dec
16
Sat
all-day Goethe Benefit Endurance 25/50, ... @ Goethe State Forest, Black Prong Trails
Goethe Benefit Endurance 25/50, ... @ Goethe State Forest, Black Prong Trails
Dec 16 all-day
Goethe Benefit Endurance 25/50, Morriston, FL @ Goethe State Forest, Black Prong Trails
Ride Information & Entry Form
all-day Winter Ride in the Pines at Sand... @ H. Cooper Black, Jr. Memorial Field Trial & Recreation Area
Winter Ride in the Pines at Sand... @ H. Cooper Black, Jr. Memorial Field Trial & Recreation Area
Dec 16 all-day
Winter Ride in the Pines at Sand Hills  IDR/25/50 Endurance, Patrick SC @ H. Cooper Black, Jr. Memorial Field Trial & Recreation Area
2023_WINTER_ AERC_Ride In The Pines  Ride Information & Entry Form! Facebook Group >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/296505088900752 Book your campsite at H Cooper Black for the Winter Ride in the Pines on Dec 16th and Spring Ride in[...]
Jan
13
Sat
6:00 am River Rise Ramble Endurance IDR/... @ River Rise Oleno State Park, High Springs, FL
River Rise Ramble Endurance IDR/... @ River Rise Oleno State Park, High Springs, FL
Jan 13 @ 6:00 am
River Rise Ramble Endurance IDR/25/50 @ River Rise Oleno State Park, High Springs, FL
Ride Information & Entry Form
Jan
26
Fri
all-day Broxton Bridge: Ride in the Low ... @ Broxton Bridge, Ehrhardt SC
Broxton Bridge: Ride in the Low ... @ Broxton Bridge, Ehrhardt SC
Jan 26 – Jan 27 all-day
Broxton Bridge: Ride in the Low Country IDR/25/30/50/65/75/100 End Ehrhardt, SC @ Broxton Bridge, Ehrhardt SC
Has Intro Ride and Clinic! Ride Entry and Information coming soon!
Feb
1
Thu
all-day Florida 3 Day 100 CTR 40/35/25/I... @ Florida Greenway Trails
Florida 3 Day 100 CTR 40/35/25/I... @ Florida Greenway Trails
Feb 1 – Feb 4 all-day
Florida 3 Day 100 CTR 40/35/25/Intro, Mileage Only Ocala, FL @ Florida Greenway Trails
    3 DAY FHA/FLORIDA 100 MILE COMPETITIVE TRAIL RIDE 40/35/25/IDR  coming soon! Florida Greenway Trails, Ocala FL!        
Feb
17
Sat
all-day Gator Run 10-15 IDR/25/50, Tidew... @ Goethe State Forest, Tidewater Trailhead, Dunnellon, FL
Gator Run 10-15 IDR/25/50, Tidew... @ Goethe State Forest, Tidewater Trailhead, Dunnellon, FL
Feb 17 all-day
Gator Run 10-15 IDR/25/50, Tidewater, Goethe St Forest, Dunnellon, FL @ Goethe State Forest, Tidewater Trailhead, Dunnellon, FL
  Ride Info and Entry ! Coming Soon!  
Mar
7
Thu
all-day Fun In The Sun (FITS) 25/50/55/7...
Fun In The Sun (FITS) 25/50/55/7...
Mar 7 – Mar 9 all-day
Fun In The Sun (FITS) 25/50/55/75/100 Endurance, Williston, FL
Ride Information & Entry Form  FITS Website will be updated soon!
Mar
8
Fri
all-day Lizard Run IDR/25/50 Lee State P... @ Lee State Park, SC
Lizard Run IDR/25/50 Lee State P... @ Lee State Park, SC
Mar 8 all-day
Lizard Run IDR/25/50 Lee State Pk, SC @ Lee State Park, SC
Lizard Run Endurance Ride base camp will be located at the arena area located at Lee State Park, 487 Loop Road, Bishopville, S.C. 29010. Directions: If approaching on I-20, take exit 123 and head North[...]
Mar
9
Sat
all-day Lizard Run IDR/25/50 Lee State P... @ Lee State Park, SC
Lizard Run IDR/25/50 Lee State P... @ Lee State Park, SC
Mar 9 all-day
Lizard Run IDR/25/50 Lee State Pk, SC @ Lee State Park, SC
Lizard Run Endurance Ride base camp will be located at the arena area located at Lee State Park, 487 Loop Road, Bishopville, S.C. 29010. Directions: If approaching on I-20, take exit 123 and head North[...]