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[RC] tendon/ligament training - rides2farLooks like I'm going to ride my neice's horse this fall since she's getting married and can't take him where she's moving. Here's the deal, he's been everybody's back up horse, or in some way an endurance horse for 9 years, but never really campaigned. He's done at least one ride almost every year since 1995. He's got 620 miles, 19 starts, 14 finishes. Three of those pulls were due to what turned out to be a loose floating splint chip aggravating a ligament and he had surgery to remove the chip. I rode him in his first 2 50's. I know he went pretty slow till his third year when he showed some speed when actually conditioned some. The majority of his slow rides he was more or less "pulled out of the field" and did well considering. Had no trouble being a completer, but there aren't a whole lot of conditioning miles represented in those completions. I have got the theory though that there's a "shock the system & rest afterward" technique that seems to work to some extent and that's sort of what he's had...life as a backup horse. So here's the question...are his tendons & ligaments conditioned? Did they hold any conditioning that they had? I know I can get his muscles in shape in 90 days or so and he's the sort that does a lot of self conditioning so he looks pretty good even though he's been goofing off, but what I want to know is how much like an untrained horse do I have to treat him as far as tendons & ligaments go? He's 15. Angie season LD miles miles rides completions 1995 0 50 1 1 1996 0 215 5 4 1997 0 155 5 3 1998 0 100 2 2 1999 25 0 1 1 2000 0 50 1 1 2001 0 50 3 1 2003 25 0 1 1 recorded 50 620 19 14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming --WOW-- what a ride !! " ________________________________________________________________ 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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