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Re: [RC] this post has NOTHING to do with LD ;) --feed changes at rides - Joe LongOn Mon, 3 May 2004 15:26:05 -0600, "Mcgann, Barbara" <BarbMcGann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Good thoughts. I've always wondered about this, too. At our house, horses are fed 3 times a day right on schedule, then comes a ride weekend - you load them up with hay in front of them and its pretty much free-choice all weekend. Granted, they don't get as much on Saturday, but the way they eat Friday, its a wonder they can waddle to the start line! Barb McGann A major part of my philosophy of conditioning for endurance rides, is that you don't ask your horse to do *anything* on the trail that you haven't conditioned him to do at home. This includes physical things like trotting downhill, and feeding. When possible I deliberately varied my feeding schedule and content at home so that my horse would be used to variations in feed come ride weekend. When I was living in an area without much hardpack trail available to get Kahlil used to concussion, I not only trotted and even cantered downhill for training, I sometimes trotted on pavement. To teach him that he only got to go on the pavement when I put him there, whenever I trotted pavement I trotted right down the middle of the road (a quiet country road, of course!). The point is that whatever a horse is going to encounter at a ride, he should have been prepared for during his conditioning. -- Joe Long jlong@xxxxxxxx http://www.rnbw.com ============================================================ I don't think you have to join a gym or buy frilly outfits to get some fitness. A decent set of shoes and a 15 minute dismount here and there will help. ~ Jon K. Linderman, Ph.D., FACSM, Assistant Professor of Health and Sport Science, University of Dayton ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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