RideCamp@endurance.net
RE: Tevis, slower riders, some random thoughts
We try
not to go for more than 35 km without water for our horses when training and we
tank them up before and as soon as can. We also insist on water every 5 km on a
ride, which can be really tough when you have to haul it by 4 wheel drive into
the sandy middle of nowhere. But our horses do fine on training rides and no one
has ever had any crashes on training rides, so.....
Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo,
Egypt
gabbani@starnet.com.eg
At 10:44 AM 7/20/00 -0400,
Sandy wrote:
a lack of water sent me into orbit at a 1997
ride - my old girl went nearly 15 miles without a sip
I guess
this is just my own unique way of looking at things, but I *expect* our horses
to be able to go 15 to 20 miles without water on a ride. We condition
that way, we expect to race that way. Out here in the middle of nowhere,
if you can't ride that far without a water stop, then you will be stuck riding
in a very constricted path, back and forth from water tank to another.
You sure couldn't ride anywhere else.
One thing Tom Ivers said to us
(and probably has written in one or more of his books) is that when you
condition, you work out for longer, harder, faster, farther and [my take on
this], drier, more humid, that is with more extreme conditions than what you
expect to find during competition. I totally agree with this but maybe
I'm just being cruel to our horses? It just seems so logical, and so far
none of our horses have had any problem whatsoever going for long distances
inbetween water stops. Lif
______________________________________________________
Lif
& Paul Strand STRAND
ENTERPRISES fasterhorses.com
providing you with alternatives for your
life
Web Page Design * Computer
Graphics * Internet Research * Fine Art
Blue-Green Algae & other
complementary health options
Arabian Horses for Distance Riding
fax: (561)
594-4609
Home
Events
Groups
Rider Directory
Market
RideCamp
Stuff
Back to TOC