Welcome to Green Bean Endurance!

The Green Bean Endurance Challenge is an awards program for new and aspiring endurance riders. All members have fewer then 1,000 career Limited Distance and Endurance miles from our parent organization, the American Endurance Ride Conference. This program recognizes riders who complete a ‘first’ in their endurance career. Perhaps it’s a first LD, a first 100, or even a first pull. It also encourages riders to participate in other ways and grants points for non-riding activities including volunteering, crewing, attending clinics, listening to a webinar, and more. Members can also join with other Green Beans to form a team that competes with other teams for year end awards. Members can form their own teams or be assigned to one. Either way, the team competition is always a fun way to meet other new riders, whether it is online or in-person. Whether on a team or not, everyone who earns the minimum points for the year earns a completion certificate and pin. The point system includes completions, pulls, bonus points, and distance multipliers. Good luck on your endurance adventure! Saddle up and enjoy the journey – you’ve found the best equine sport around!
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How to Participate

When you join ($15 fee) Green Beans, you’ll be able to Register and Login.  As a registered member, you can begin sending in all the extra cool things you do during the season.  Those points add up and can earn you a year end award!  Also, since our motto is “To Finish is to Win”, everyone earning just 25 points will receive a certificate and custom embroidered patch! 

There’s ‘s a pretty long list of cool ways to earn points, so be sure to check out the Rules page to learn about all of them.  Each submission will earn you “Bonus” points and those points will accumulate along with points earned from riding at an AERC event which we receive from the AERC office automatically.  It’s super import that you send us all those cool things you do within 60 days or they can’t be included.  

As your points stack up, you’ll see a few a different scoreboards, each tallying your points a bit differently.  First, the “One Horse” scoreboard will include all points you earn from one horse.  Second, the “All Horse” scoreboard will combine points for all horses, and lastly, the “Teams” scoreboard is all of your points earned on all of your horses for you AND your team, if you choose to join one.  Any bonus points earned for non-riding activites will be counted in each scoreboard.  Whew!  That’s confusing, right?  So, let’s say you submit for having a mentor (15 pts), a test submission (5 pts), rode Spot in an intro ride for 10 miles (10 pts) and rode Sparticus in a 25 LD (25 pts).  Your One Horse scoreboard would show both Spot and Sparticus and your points would be Spot (15 + 5 + 10) 30 pts and Sparticus (15 + 5 + 25) 45 points.  Your All Horse scoreboard would be (15 + 5 + 10 + 25) 55 points.  Your team would have 55 points toward the team total.  Curious about teams?  Scroll down for  a special section on that….

And, if that’s not enough, we also have the Tally-Hoe Mileage Derby!  This is a separate points program and included in your membership fee.  Consider this like an online riding journal where you can record where your rode, the mileage completed, how it went, a photo, the app you used, and more.  It’s as simple or complex as you want.  These reports include training, conditioning, arena work, equi-jogging, and competition miles.  For every 100th mile recorded, you’ll earn bonus points back over on the Green Bean Challenge program – all automatically!  And, everything you enter is completely confidential.  The only part that’s public is your current mileage total.  

All about Teams!

Teams are a group of up to 5 riders who ride and earn points together - virtually. You could be in California and a team mate in Wisconsin and that's okay! Teams compete against other teams for year end prizes - and everyone on the team earns the prize (with a few exceptions). Team formations can be done by you OR we can help you find a team. This is usually done between January and March each year. Watch the button below to launch when we're ready to get Team signs rolling!
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AWARD WINNERS

Congratulations to our "Miled-out" Green Beans over the years!