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Again, this is mostly Susan's findings, so excuse me for speaking for her.

Riding in the aerobic zone is pretty straightforward - and this is one place
where knowing your horse and/or having a heartrate monitor pays tremendous
dividends, because it is that zone where the horse is exercising easily, for
many horses somewhere in 100-150 bpm heartrate range.  At the upper end of
that range (and for some horses I would guess it could be as low as 130),
they start to move into an anaerobic zone, and their breathing becomes more
labored, their heartrate recoveries slow, etc.  Heat and humidity both have
an impact on this.

Realistically, carrots cannot be overfed.  10 pounds of carrots = 1 gallon
of water and good fiber, vit A, etc.

I can speak from experience on those rides where I have ridden the first
loop too fast, the horse nearly always runs out of gas in the last loop,
regardless of conditioning.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Kristen A. Fisher [mailto:kskf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 10:37 AM
To: msofen@xxxxxxxxxxx; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC] When to stop feeding fat before a race


> The other really important take-away from her Friday talk was the
importance
> of maintaining fat metabolism during a ride.  This requires the rider to
not
> deplete the stored glycogen/glucose because glycogen is required to burn
> stored fat...if glycogen is all gone because the horse was ridden too
fast -
> into his anaerobic zone - then the horse crashes because it has no
glycogen
> (instant energy) nor can it utilize fat (long term energy).
So how would you manage yoru ride to try and make sure tihs is what is
happening?

> Plain beet pulp provides a low glycemic source of carbos and fiber, to
> refill both the carbo tank (for fat burning) and for gut motility.
What about carrots?

Thanks,
Kristen in TX

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