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Re: [RC] Endurance Clinic - Chrystal WoodhouseO.k. good point Angie, however without going to actually check I am pretty sure that the clinic Stagg Newman was at in the fall and the clinics that were done at the convention were/are not recorded and will not be in the Endurance news. And although I really enjoy and look forward to the magazine I don't consider it a great source of "how to" information, it is good for information about rides where/when and standings- it has great articles about individual experiences and Jr. bio's , last year they did the thing on the Shenandoah ( sp??) Valley which was good but I don't feel like there is a lot of " how to stuff." How to train for a 50 maybe but what about a fast 50, a 100, a fast 100, ideas of how to train for mountains when one doesn't live in the mountains, electrolyting, when, how much, who is , who isn't?????? :-) How much does training change over the years?? ( I.e. from year one to say year three with the same horse.) Long ,slow distances or short and fast? When? How much? I keep thinking to myself that there is so much good information stored in the minds of experienced endurance riders, why do I have to go out and find it all out by myself( and I mean by trial and error as there isn't a whole lot in print) No that doesn't mean I am lazy it means that I don't want to make the same mistakes other people did, ( I'll make new ones :-)) and yes I do realize that there is just some stuff that only experience and trial and error will teach, that is where the "art" of horsemanship comes in, however there is a lot that I feel experienced riders/clinicians can teach me that will help my horse avoid the pitfalls I am sure many new endurance riders make.My point was that to capture that information and share it with hundreds/thousands of endurance riders rather than a few would be great and no I don't think that is happening with Endurance news or any other publication. Chrystal :-)
>>>Can we figure out way to get this information out to a larger group?? Maybe hire a professional videographer to tape the wknd ( then sell those tapes) or get the clinicians to put their thoughts >>>down on paper so that someone can type them up and sell them. That's kind of what Endurance News does every month. :-) Angie ----- Message from Chrystal Woodhouse <Chrystal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:20:29 -0500 -----
The endurance clinic sounds awesome however it is really limited to those people who live in the region and /or have a large disposable income ( and how does one do that when they own horses?? Perhaps one day we could get a clinic on that topic. :-) ;-)) Can we figure out way to get this information out to a larger group?? Maybe hire a professional videographer to tape the wknd ( then sell those tapes) or get the clinicians to put their thoughts down on paper so that someone can type them up and sell them. Or how about AERC starting something along the lines of training certain individuals from each region and then those people can go back to their clubs and share what they learned , perhaps AERC could help fund those indv. travel/training. Honestly I would almost kill to get to a clinic with the people that are presenting however it just won't happen this year.:-( Please figure out a way to share the info!:-) Chrystal :-)
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