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Ditto to those who think the Grand Prix dressage riders are just sitting there as well.

Lucinda

David LeBlanc <dleblanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Carla said:
>
> > Something that is always amusing to me is that people who 
> > don't ride think that the rider just sits on the horse, 
> > doesn't do anything, and isn't fit.
>
> I have a good story on that. A few years back, I spent a week in Moscow,
> Russia, where the air is truly horrible. By the time I got home, I was
> having respiratory problems, and some weird chest pains. Being kind of dumb
> about all this, I mentioned the problem to my wife. About 2 minutes later, I
> found myself in the emergency room hooked to all sorts of wires.
>
> They didn't find anything wrong and let me go, but recommended that I go get
> a treadmill test just to make
>  sure. So off I go to my regular doctor, who
> then refers me to the doctor who gives the treadmill tests. Conversation
> went about like this:
>
> So what do you do for exercise?
>
> I ride horses.
>
> No, really. I mean real exercise. The horse does all the work.
>
> You don't understand. I ride horses for 10-12 hours in a day, and go 50
> miles, and might do that for 2-3 days in a row.
>
> So he looked at me suspicously, but didn't want to argue. The day of the
> treadmill test comes, and I'm all hooked up, and they start the treadmill.
> I'm just plugging along, heart rate of about 110, so they turn it up. Now
> I'm going faster, and steeper, but my heart rate is steady at about 125.
> They have to get you to max, or the test isn't any good. So they wait. A
> couple of minutes later, I'm still at 125, and point out "I can do this all
> day." Now the thing is about vertical and running at 5 mph, and that does
> max me out. Turns out the ticker is
>  just fine.
>
> Finally, the doctor admits that he'd only seen one other person take that
> much to hit max (and I'm not really in that great a shape, unless you
> consider round a shape), and that maybe all this riding might involve some
> work.
>
> I've also often fantasized about taking one of these nitwits who thinks the
> horse does all the work, and then putting them on the most herd-bound horse
> we own, get on the horse's best buddy, and take them on a '3-hour tour'.
> >8-)
>
>
>
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