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The Moab ride actually had that, for all riders, on Sunday morning.  I think it was at around 7 miles or so, a pulse check and go.  Then we had a 10 mile loop and back to the same spot for the 40 minute lunch break (for LD riders) or 1 hour lunch break (for 50 milers).  It was not much of a delay, and they had water tanks there for us after the pulse check.  My horse was down, at criteria, when we came in.

 

The thing I don't want to see is another, extra, 30 minutes hold or something like that, because in my, yes, inexperienced, opinion it would cause us to have to speed up, not slow down.  I don't call that riding smarter, it would just mean riding faster for those of us who *want* to go slower.
 

Carla Richardson

Colorado
 

On 11/13/07, Beth Walker <bwalker2@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Well, you *could* put in PR checks at water stops.  That wouldn't
slow things down too much, since, presumably riders are going to want
to give their horses time to drink anyway.  So - set it up so that
after the horse has a chance to drink, they have to be at a certain
PR criteria in order to go on.  Make it an exit PR criteria.