Ridecamp: Re: [RC] National IAHA Championship on TV

When I first heard that the Ft Howes ride was done in under nine hours...I
was simply amazed...not appalled by any means.  I just assumed that these
were riders and horses who could go that fast for that distance...until I
saw the video...and saw the horses and riders in action during part of the
last ten miles and at the finish. I guess everyone has a different
definition of "over ridden."  To me if the horse looks exhausted and
miserable, the horse was over ridden.  Your horse obviously wasn't over
ridden if he still had that much in him the last miles and into the
finish...

----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Long <jlong@xxxxxxxx>
To: <SandyDSA@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <bolinger@xxxxxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] National IAHA Championship on TV


> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:24:15 EST, SandyDSA@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >In a message dated 11/8/2002 6:04:47 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> >bolinger@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> >> Look at the winning time for that race...It was something ridiculous
like 8
> >> 1/2 hours for 100 miles.
>
> >WHAT?????? Oh GOOD GOD! What idiot is riding their horse at thsi kind of
> >pace? If what you saw you saw - and of course, you wouldn't bring it up
if
> >you didn't - clearly that pace was profoundly idiotic - and cruel. I
cannot
> >imagine what I would tell MY horsey friends in that instance. 8 hours is
a
> >respectable finishing time for a lot of 50 MILERS!!!! I don't know about
you
> >guys but I am appalled.
> >s
>
> Kahlil and I finished an honest 100-mile ride in under nine hours, and
> we finished third (second place was a Junior I sponsored).  I
> literally had a runaway at the finish.  We did the last leg, 15 miles,
> in one hour flat because I didn't want to sprint a downhill near the
> end.  The last mile was up a hill, then down.  I sprinted up as fast
> as he could run trying to pull away from the other Senior rider, and
> when I tried to slow Kahlil at the top I couldn't slow him down.
> There were people in a pickup truck following us, hollering and
> cheering at the last-mile sprint -- the driver said we went up the
> hill at over 25 MPH.  We did get Best Condition.
>
> That was on a (mostly) flat course, on excellent footing, and a cool
> day.
>
> Oh, we did a sub-8-hour "100" once, but that was a short trail.
>
> --
>
> Joe Long
> jlong@xxxxxxxx
> http://www.rnbw.com
>
>
>


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