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RE: [RC] Mileage and Distance in Perspective - Adam and Jannelle

Adam did a poker ride just for variation with a friend last year.  I think 
it was about 3 miles long...took them THREEEEEE hours to finish it.  Adam 
would poke along for a while and let Heather trot out up a hill and then 
come back.  Our friend was riding a very tall QH that had a TWO mph walk. 
Little Heather at 14:2 has at least 4 mph walk...when she's just 
mosey-ing.  But Adam bought some raffle tickets and won a bunch of stuff so 
the day was not all for naught.  It's good for the horses to learn to go 
slow sometimes...right?

Jannelle

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Jannelle, I've got to throw in a funny story here.  When my guy "Junior"
was a wannabe endurance horse in training as a 5-year-old, I took him to a
local poker ride as a way of getting out in public on the trails with him
in a relaxed manner as a part of his education.  It was one of those
affairs where you could more or less start whenever you wanted to, once
the trail was open, and having arrived a bit on the late side, we were
among the last to start.  The thing was 9 miles, if memory serves, and was
well-marked with mileage markers.  We were just getting warmed up nicely
and lined out when we came upon Mileage Marker #1--I was just passing a
couple on some rather chubby QHs, and I heard the man exclaim to the
woman, "You mean we've only gone ONE MILE??!?"

Heidi


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