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Hi Meghan - I'm sending your questions to the endurance discussion  
group - Ridecamp - to get some answers to your questions.

Ridecamp - please cc Meghan - mriley1342  -at- gmail -dot- com  with  
your responses.

Steph

On Sep 18, 2007, at 8:49 AM, Meghan Riley wrote:

> Dear Steph and John Teeter,
>
> I'm Meghan Riley, a junior member in one of the horse forums and a  
> young writer. I'm trying to gain knowledge about distance riding  
> for a novel I'm working on.  A senior member in the forum  
> recommended your website. In my novel I have three different groups  
> of people traveling over different sorts of terrain (plains,  
> deserts, forests, hills, and mountains) and I'm trying to make it  
> as realistic as possible. When riding a horse you can not push it  
> beyond its limits. I'm trying to establish those limits so I can  
> coordinate my characters and their activities. I'm trying to get an  
> idea of what is the most possible amount of distance a horse can  
> cover in a day (walk, trot, etc.). Also how fast a horse can travel  
> (mph) over those distances, how many hours it can travel a day and  
> how many rest stops it would need. So far, I have yet to included  
> inclement weather conditions into my calculations.
>
> The riders would be riding very light. Distances include stretches  
> up to:
>
> 230-600 miles across plains
> 30-230 miles across a desert
> 170-240 miles in forests
> 100-150 miles in hills
> 100-150 miles in steep mountains
>
>
> Would you mind assisting me? Any information, advice, or books you  
> could recommend would be wonderful. Thanks again.
>
> Meghan


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