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Re: [RC] Over conditioning - rides2far

Thanks for all of those replies--makes perfect sense.  I was looking 
at it in terms of the months leading up rather than the closer to 
ride time frame,


There's also the "over conditioning" that breaks the horse down
mechanically. You condition too often applying stress but don't give the
body time to react to the stress by reinforcing and making it stronger
(your goal). The horse gets stronger on REST days *because* of stress
days. If you do too many stress days, you add insult to injury and the
horse breaks down. 4 days a week for me would be max. I'm happy to get in
3...two short and one long. My short rides are about 7 miles with hills
and good footing. My "long ride" will be 5 hours or so of slow crappy
rocks with a mountain thrown in. 

Angie

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