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    [RC] Eco Challenge-was FEI perspective - Maggie & David


    Speaking of Eco Challenge......
     
    One of my riding students announce that her marathon runner husband wants to learn to ride. Seems there is an Eco Challenge going to happen in Ohio in the fall. This one will include the usual running, boating, swimming stuff, plus rollerblading, and HORSEBACK RIDING. A twenty mile section of the course is to be ridden. Husband tells me race organizers are providing the horses.
     
    My question:  Has anyone heard anything else about this? Where are they getting the horses? Are they going to be an animal that can 'go the distance'? or just a backyard pleasure horse that may have problems getting 20 miles in?
     
    Oh, and on the subject of doing it for the fun of it......he tells me there is major sponsor giving out big bucks for first. But husband is hoping fervently to finish without falling off of the horse.
     
    Maggie Pritchard--curious
    Foxy--teaching another rookie to ride