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Re: [RC] Weight - Chrystal WoodhouseBruce my horse has AWESOME hr's and recoveries she will be down to 44 within 6 minutes at a vet check after a fast loop ( o.k. I don' t do that anymore I kept getting in trouble from my endurance buddies who had to teach me that it WASN'T a CTR ride and 64 was acceptable so now we take one or two minutes to get to 64.:-))) About 5 -8 minutes after our 75 mile ride finished ( our first one ever -) she was at 44 so I took her through vetted her, completed and ran for a cold beer :-) My point is that though her hr's and recoveries are often better than other competitor's we still get beat by them- even though they have higher hr's and recoveries, so I don't think that is a defining factor. We were talking at camp about weight the other day and the under 1250 pounds theory was talked about- have you ridden smaller horses to get your combined weight under 1250 was there any difference?? Also- I would hazard a guess that if you trained your horse and your daughter rode him in a race he would have an easier time of it- just like if you ran with a 10 kg sack of flour and then after a month ran with a 5 kg sack of flour- you would probably feel like you were on vacation!!:-) However if you always ran with a 5kg sack of flour you would only be conditioned to do that and at the end of the month you wouldn't feel like it was a "treat" to run with a 5 kg sack of flour. SO maybe if a featherweight had a heavyweight train their horse for months and then competed the horse with the feather weight riding there would be some advantage , however as far as I know that is not common practice, as feather weight trains her own horse and the horse is conditioned only to the point that he has to in order to carry that amount of weight . Anyway how many miles you done?? Over 8000?? You are awesome and obviously doing something right .:-) Chrystal;-)
But, Heidi, the heart rate/pulse recovery thing happens on all my horses when either of my kids or my wife rides them, versus that which happens when I'm on them. You're saying that my kids and my wife must have better equitation/riding skill than I do under all circumstances on all horses? Reminds me of the drunk who is on his knees under a street lamp looking for his car keys. A passerby offers to help, but doesn't see them. He asks "How did you lose them?" To which the drunk replies, "I dropped them in the house, but the light is better out here." To me, the most obvious and constant factor is the extreme weight difference. Stop looking under the streetlamp for something that isn't there. Heisman had 3,500 miles over ten years. He had plenty of time to "condition to my weight." Dr Q =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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