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I remember reading about Hanne Hollander's training method.  There was a 
hill near their home when they lived in Powell Butte, OR and she said she 
used to gallop up and walk down, repeat, repeat, until she had the desired 
results.  One couldn't fault her record....

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Truman Prevatt" <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ride Camp" <RideCamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] Question re Running up hills-easiest way?


> When I am galloping uphill which I do often in training, I make sure
> that I start to back off before the crest of the hill so we are ready to
> drop to a walk at the top of the hill. On particularly cold (by FL
> standards) Feb morning we were out for a conditioning ride. The horse
> was wired as only horses that are in 100 mile shape on a cold morning
> can get. We start up one long hill of deep sand - I affectionately call
> cardiac hill - and she felt so good, the sun was so bright, the air so
> cool and refreshing and the humidity so low I forgot to start to back
> her off. She topped the hill at a full gallop, gave out a buck of joy,
> dropped her butt and accelerated - taking use the last 3 miles home as
> pretty much a runaway.
>
> At that moment I was sure glad I do a lot of downhill training at all
> gaits. Your post is absolutely correct, train how you are going to ride
> and ride how you train.
>
>
>
> Joe Long wrote:
>
> > Walking, trotting and cantering downhill are all part of my conditioning
> > regimen.  Which pace I use on a given downhill depends on many factors,
> > including the steepness of the hill, the quality of the footing, if the 
> > horse is
> > fresh or tired, and (in competition) our position relative to our 
> > competitors.
> >
> > I don't run full-out downhill, but one time I had no choice.  About a mile 
> > from
> > the finish of a one-day 100-mile ride, we went up a hill and down the 
> > other
> > side.  I raced up as fast as we could run trying to break away from the 
> > other
> > senior rider, but she stayed right with me, so I tried to slow to a trot 
> > at the
> > top.  No way -- Kahlil was a runaway and ran DOWN the other side 
> > wide-open.  I
> > sure was glad I'd trained him downhill that time.
>
>
> --
>
> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
>
> - Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
>
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