Re: Endurance Training

["Sandy Bolinger" <bolinger@bigsky.net>]

My first endurance "mount" was a mule...I was about two miles from the
finish on one of our first 25's ...we were in third place...and Elivira
decided she'd had enough and she was hungry....so she headed off up the hill
to a patch of green grass and that was that...the only way I could get any
forward movement was by beating on the paper number that was pinned on the
back of my shirt with a stick---the sound of my hitting the paper was enough
to elicit movement at least to the next patch of grass...we eventually came
trotting across the finish line with me beating on my back as hard and fast
as I could with the stick! You have to be very creative when asking a mule
to do something that they would rather not do!

----- Original Message -----
From: <Dbeverly4@aol.com>
To: <rides2far@juno.com>
Cc: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 9:26 AM
Subject: RC: Endurance Training


> In a message dated 6/28/00 7:38:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> rides2far@juno.com writes:
>
> << As far as the training thing.  That's a toughy.   >>
>
> That reminds me of a couple of good old boys who were training for the
Tevis
> a few years ago.  They kept telling my friend (she has 13 Tevis buckles)
how
> they were conditioning and how fast they were gonna do the Tevis.  She
> invited them to come on one of our training rides with us.  We took them
on a
> 30 mile ride that ended up kind of like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride =:O   One of
the
> guys said that he decided his horse wasn't ready for the Tevis and the
other
> guy said he'd better start riding more <eg>.  To give him credit, he did
> finish Tevis that year on his 18 year old mule.  He did try to go fast
too,
> but the mule had other plans.  After he left us (about 40 miles into the
> ride) to go with a faster group, the mule did that for a while then just
> pulled over and sat down on the side of the trail to wait for us.  Once we
> came along the mule got up and trotted on down the trail to the finish
line
> with us.  Seeing that mule sitting there in the moonlight is one of the
> funniest memories I have.
>
> Sylvia
>
>
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