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Re: [RC] a year of 25's - Heidi SmithI'd have to assert that Heidi isn't a very good judge of what a newbie might learn from an LD ride. So far as I can tell, Heidi's only done 2 LD rides, and those were after some 5000+ miles of endurance. Heidi knows a good bit about endurance, but her perspective is a lot different than someone new. Heidi learned what she knows in a different way, and that seems to have worked well for Heidi, but might not be what everyone can do. Sorry, Deanna, I attributed the above to you, when it actually came from David LeBlanc. My posts are coming out of order, and I replied to this through Bob's reply to it. Again, David, my observation came from watching scores of very well-intentioned newbies inflict shorter distances on horses for whom it was not suited as I vetted them on ride after ride. I think the most dramatic demonstration of this was Mary McGinty's horse Rabou several years ago, who finally put her in an ambulance with a serious concussion after doing a few too many LDs. As I sat with Mary and her then-SO Terry Huff waiting for the ambulance, as Mary drifted in and out of consciousness, Terry asked me what the best thing to do with Rabou would be. I told him to take him to the next ride and do a 75. Which he did. The horse went on to be a top-notch 100-miler. I've seen this scenario repeated time and time again (fortunately sans the ambulance)--when it is time to move up, the horse NEEDS to do so! Even if that is at his very first ride, if, like Tiffany's horse, he has already been doing the distance..... Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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