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I've never quite understood that argument either. Your ride time is you 
does not include you hold time. Average_speed X ride_time = distance. If 
you ride steady at 6 mph it doesn't matter how many vet checks you have 
your ride time will for 50 miles will be 8:20 if you have one check two 
checks or three checks. Like Angile if I only had one check, I'd take 
more time since I would stop to eat on the trail.

Truman

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> Also, one of the lessons I learned last year from 
>  
>
> > riding > slowly intentionally is that I can finish faster on a ride
> >    
> with less 
>  
>
> > vet > checks, because more time is spent going steady.  
> >    
>
> I'm going to take this opportunity to clarify something for newbies,
> since this could be misleading. (This is one of the most common things I
> have to explain to newbies) your hold times do not count on your ride
> time, but they *do* count against your allowed 12 hrs. Maybe you feel you
> keep your momentum up better with fewer holds, but they need to
> understand that hold times are not lenthening their ride time and fewer
> holds won't automatically give you a faster ride time (it slows me down
> since I use my ride time letting my horse eat along the trail)
>
> Angie
>  

>  


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“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how 
smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong” Richard 
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