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Re: [RC] Speed Kills...so how fast is too fast? - rides2farBob said: It depends on the way the horse is maintained, it depends on the way the horse is trained, >>>it depends on the way the horse is conditioned, it depends on the way the horse is fed, it >>depends on the condition of the trail, it depends on the weather, it depends on the ability of >>the rider, Sylvia, I think I covered all this in the article I wrote called "Conditioning". Just in case you missed it, here are two exerpts: snip< I explained that the first stage the author describes, ?LSD?, stands for ?Long Slow Distance?. This is something the author claims he does with his horse for the first year or two. In the author?s own program however, ?LSD? probably stands for ?Let?s Skip Doing.? In most cases he gives the five year old horse LSD credit for walking from the feed bucket to the water trough since birth and happily skips to stage two. Should you be so rude as to ask the author if he actually follows his schedule, he will assure you that though the schedule is appropriate for 99 horses out of 100, his horse is different, an extraordinary individual on whom all that effort is unnecessary. The truth is that most ?experts? consider all training to be cumulative. If they make it to a certain level with one horse, they are then allowed to immediately pick up at that level on their next project. Angie ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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