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Re: [RC] getting through a 100 - Chris PausIf I ever get up the gumption to do a 100, it likely will be on the mare I'm training now. She's only 4 and hasn't started her career yet, but she's showing lots of promise. One thing I'm teaching her that might come in handy on a long ride is to drink out of my water bottles! It's a hoot. She already liked to drink out of garden hoses so it wasn't too much of a leap to squirt water in her mouth from a bottle... chris --- Maggie Mieske <mmieske@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Ride with someone you like. Sing a lot. Laugh a lot. Talk to your horse. Tell him/her stories. Take mini vet checks between those long miles...even 10 minutes can be a refresher. Our horses get really refreshed with a slosh bottle and a drink and a minute or two to graze or eat some hay or carrots or whatever they want. Do something nice like that for yourself, too. :) This year I am getting off and walking to break it up. And yeah, vet check to vet check is what works for me. ;) Miles of smiles, Maggie http://arabianquest.com/samaha_arabians.htm "So many of our dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable." Christopher Reeve ===== "A good horse makes short miles," George Eliot Chris and Star BayRab Acres http://pages.prodigy.net/paus ============================================================ REAL endurance is eating egg salad sandwiches for 3 days straight! Heidi Sowards... but then again... REAL endurance is riding behind someone who ate egg salad sandwiches for 3 days straight! ~ author unkown ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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