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RE: [RC] Riding Too Slow - heidiBack when I was capable of doing it, a fast 4 hour 50 beat me up pretty bad; I would be both tired and sore from it. The flip side, the 12 hour 50, is just as bad...you just drag around out there, do a LOT of walking and sitting in one position. I end up exhausted from it. The best I feel is when I'm in shape and do a 5-7 hour ride. Some walking, resting, some cruising along trotting, some cantering, some stopping to graze, some blasting along and really covering ground. Those are the rides that I feel the best afterwards. Good point, Barbara. And looking at the horses, that's the group that on the whole looks the best, too. Just from my experiences with which horses require treatment--I always seemed to see the treatments tend to group in both the front runners and the tail-enders. The mid-packers as a whole tended to be the healthiest group. Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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