Endurance.Net Ridecamp Archives

Great questions Kathy, and great segue to a new topic!

I feel very fortunate to live quite close to a Kansas
state park with about  30 miles of equestrian trails.
My road dead ends at one of the entrances to the
trail. I'm about an 8 mile trailer ride to the main
trail head and equestrian camp ground.

So I can get to the trails by riding 3 miles of gravel
road, or by trailering to the camp ground. During the
weekend, it is very busy with pleasure riders, but
during the week days I usually have the park to
myself.

We have a good variety of terrain at this park..
hilly, wooded, rocky, bluffs overlooking the lake,
prairie meadows, swampy wet areas, everything. A horse
can really get used to all kinds of terrain there.

I don't have an arena, but do have my own pastures I
can ride in if I don't have the ambition to get out or
the weather sucks too bad. I also can ride on the
gravel roads around home. There's still not too
terribly much traffic here. And between growing
seasons, we can ride in the farm fields.

So I have lots of good options.

chris


--- Kathy Ramspott <Kramspott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Has there ever been a discussion regarding where
> folks do their conditioning
> rides?  I wonder if there is any correlation between
> the folks who can do
> 100's and if they can do their training rides in
> their 'backyards' so to
> speak.  Specifically
>
>  
>
> How many folks have to trailer to ride over 5 miles
>
>             If you do have to trailer is it less
> then or more then a 30
> minute haul
>
> How many folks have a park or non-road area without
> having to trailer that
> has over 5 miles worth of riding
>
> How many folks get all their conditioning in by
> riding in arena and or have
> to ride along a road
>
>  
>
> You get the idea.
>
>  
>
> Just wondering
>
>  
>
> Kathy R
>
>  
>
>   _____  
>
> From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Chipnml@xxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 2:34 PM
> To: rhndlev@xxxxxxx; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [RC] [RC-Digest] Vol: 03.2325 light
> riding
>
>  
>
> LOL!  I know just what you mean.  Last spring when I
> was out conditioning, I
> met a woman with halter/show quarter horses who were
> never even turned out.
> She asked me how far I was riding, and I told her
> "just 8 easy miles...we'll
> work up to 10-12, then put some speed on."  She was
> shocked.  Especially
> when I told her "easy miles" meant about 50% trot,
> 50% walk.  She couldn't
> imagine going more than a couple miles.  This is
> why, if we don't ride with
> other endurance riders, we ride by ourselves <g>.
>
>  
>
> Chip

=====
"A good horse makes short miles," George Eliot

Chris and Star

BayRab Acres
http://pages.prodigy.net/paus

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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!!

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=