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Please forgive me for being confused by reading all these LD/50's mails....please tell me what an ideal time (approximate) you would give for an LD (25) withOUT hold time, and the same for the 50's (w/o holdtimes)  Thank you, and yes, reading the ride results with some having hold times and other not--- that being inconsistant is hard to decipher times.

terre <tobytrot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David said:
> >That's not what anyone has said. They said the 50 mile riders went about 15%
> >faster. So if the 50 was won in 5 hours even, a typical LD the same day
> >would be won in about 2:50.
>
> The problem with this observation--which is probably 
> true--is that it acts as if the two populations of horses and riders 
> were identical except for the distance being ridden. That, I think,
>  
> is not at all true.
>
> I think the majority of the entrants in an LD are less "race 
> ready" than the entrants in a 50--old horses, young horses, horses 
> recovering from injuries, new riders, old riders, families with 
> children, people who don't have time to condition, people with health 
> issues, people who just plain aren't competitive and don't want to 
> beat themselves up. Even the 50 mile horses/riders doing an LD are 
> usually do so for a reason--like just having done a tough 50 or 100 
> recently, or whatever--otherwise they would probably do the 50.
>
> Of course these people ride slower! And the people who ARE 
> racing the LD are not being pushed by a field of "racing" 
> competitors, so they don't have to ride as fast as they are capable 
> of in order to beat them--they only have to ride faster than the few 
> other "racers". That may be why some of them decline to move up to 
> the longer
>  distance.
>
> terre
>
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>
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