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While everything counts for schooling purposes (and your schooling routine looks VERY good!) you are conditioning for a specific purpose...to complete that LD ride in January.  Since most of that trail will (hopefully) be ridden, so should your conditioning.

 

That's not to say that your horse isn't receiving benefits from the lunging and ground work; he needs to be conditioned for the work he will be expected to do in competition.

 

So, having said that...ride all you can and call it good.  Get off during the LD ride to give him a break.  Praise him a lot and let him know he's doing a bang-up job.  HAVE FUN!!!

 

Good luck!

cschiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I hope to do my (and my horses) first LD this January. I have worked out my weekly mileage goals from now until then. My question is do my miles have to be RIDDEN miles or can extended hand-walking and hand-trotting (a few miles), lunge-line lunging or free lunging in the arena count?? I do the lunging and hand-work for variety and to practice ground-work. I ask because I board my horse 45-50 minutes away, go out there 4 times a week, and work full-time, so I want every "step" to count towards my weekly mileage goal. Also since I am taking it very slow with my fairly green horse, I don't want to go over my mileage for that week.
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