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Some of us were sitting and talking about conditioning horses and  
humans for running and riding and an odd question popped up. When we  
are conditioning our horses, we actually are alarmed by hard muscles  
as a symptom of tieing up. Good horse muscles aren't soft and flabby  
but neither do we expect them to be as hard as say a good  
tennisplayer's thigh muscle.  Or, to use a more personal example,  
think about patting a marathon runner on the butt as compared with  
one of our good 100 mile horses.

I guess my question, as a non-runner who doesn't understand the need  
for hard muscles on humans, is what's different between horses and  
humans here?  A little esoteric, I'm sure but you guys must have some  
answers about this...

Maryanne pondering in Cairo

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