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Re: [RC] multis,2-day 100s - Barbara McCrary

I don't know statistics about how many horses finish all 5 days of a multi-day, but I have done so a good many times. My experience showed me that my horse peaked out on day 3 and then leveled out on days 4 and 5. I love riding the same horse all 5 days. There is something special about sharing that experience with the same horse. I have also ridden a few multi-days on two different horses, but it's more fun to do it on one.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert J. Morris" <bobmorris@xxxxxxxx>
To: "'terre'" <tobytrot@xxxxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:40 AM
Subject: RE: [RC] multis,2-day 100s



<<<just didn't start the next day), could this not be seen as a
'failure' on
the other days...(pre-pull?).>>

Sounds like you are trying to say "If I intended to fail and I did, did
I?"

Bob Morris
Boise, ID


-----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of terre Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:48 AM To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] multis,2-day 100s

Don't forget that a '2 day 100" is not the same as a multiday,
or--say--2 50s.  If you enter the '2-day 100' and only do one day you
don't get a completion, just as if you entered a 1-day 100 and pulled
at 50 miles.

Part of the allure of multidays is that you can go intending to do
all of x number of days, but if you pull on one or just don't feel
like doing it you still get credit for the days you DID do.

I don't see much point in "2 day 100s"--you accomplish the same thing
by riding back-to-back 50s, without the risk of losing the completion
of the first day if something happens on the second.  Unless,
perhaps, it is the mental aspect of 'commitment'.

Parenthetically, I've always had a bit of a 'quibble' with the stats
from multidays.  People will occasionally state that the multiday
rides have a 'higher completion rate' than single 50s or 100s,
implying that they are 'safer', or ridden differently.  But this
doesn't take into account how many horses on any given day are
"fresh" (ie not ridden the day before) or how many riders intended to
do something other than what they did.  Ie, if the rider went
intending to do all 5 days and only did 3 or 4 (without a pull, just
didn't start the next day), could this not be seen as a 'failure' on
the other days...(pre-pull?).  I know this isn't very clear--what I'm
getting at is that many more horses complete each day of a multi than
do all 5--and we can't tell if the original intention was to do all 5
or not.  I'd be interested in knowing THAT stat.  To put it another
day...if there was a single entry "5 day 250 mile ride", how many
horses would complete it?

terre


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