Re: Re: minimum maximum mileage

["Whitney Bass" <bass@bigsky.net>]

I'm posting a "me, too, me, too!!" -- I really liked this, Angie.

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> From: superpat <superpat@gateway.net>
> To: tjones@coinet.com; Rides 2 Far <rides2far@juno.com>
> Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RC:  Re: minimum maximum mileage
> Date: Sunday, April 02, 2000 8:48 PM
> 
> 
> I appreciate your spin on this, Angie. You are obviously living in the
real
> world.
> Pat
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rides 2 Far <rides2far@juno.com>
> To: <tjones@coinet.com>
> Cc: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 7:29 PM
> Subject: RC: minimum maximum mileage
> 
> 
> > << Here's his basic formula and rules of thumb.
> >  Ride at the speed you will compete.>
> >
> > Ahhh I just love people who live in a perfect world.  Sure, I think
I'll
> > go over here to Pigeon Mtn. (10 million rocks per square mile) and do
15
> > mph since that's what we're going to do for parts of the Liberty Run
> > (couldn't find a rock to smash a tick if you tried)
> >
> > If you listen to people who tell you "minimum 50 miles per week...." at
> > LEAST ask them when the last time they started a horse on 50's
themselves
> > was.  The UAE tends to buy horses that have all this behind them.  If
you
> > buy horses that are already winning, and have proven they have the
> > soundness and speed etc, etc, to last long enough to get noticed,
chances
> > are you don't spend a lot of time starting the backyard horse.  Then
> > there's the other people who do 25's for 10 years because they never
> > thought they had enough time to commit to the 40 hour per week
> > conditioning schedule that they read about.
> >
> > I used to ride with a girl who seldom found time to train.  I ride on
the
> > average, 3 days per week.  She did well to show up one, BUT if we met
> > trail riders who asked about endurance, she'd stand there with a
> > perfectly straight fact and explain that you *have* to ride 4 days a
> > week, 25 miles on Saturday.....( I think she actually managed that once
> > in her life and it became her token perfect week of training) and she
> > HONESTLY didn't realize how rediculous she sounded to me.
> >
> > Some of you assume that beginner's horses crash because they didn't
train
> > long enough, my experience is that most of them over train and it's
SPEED
> > on race day that is the problem, not distance.
> >
> > I made the mistake of following the directions on how to condition that
I
> > read in books too.  Kept making horses lame before we ever made it to a
> > race.  Finally started just doing what felt right to me, going farther
or
> > faster as it "felt right".  I got Kaboot in March just before he turned
> > 5.  He did his first 50 in late September.  We did our first 100 in
1998
> > four years later.  He got fast after that.
> >
> > I think it's nearly impossible, and around here foolish to try to train
> > as fast as you compete.  I add long climbs to get heart rates, but save
> > legs for the race where you have to take chances.  Tom may be able to
> > allow for 20 horses in training, 10 go lame and 10 get to race hard.
> > I've got one horse, and I'd like to get to ride on race day.
> >
> > Angie (riding a borrowed horse this weekend)
> >
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