ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: [endurance] Seeking tips.
Re: [endurance] Seeking tips.
Truman Prevatt (prevatt@lds.loral.com)
Tue, 3 Oct 1995 14:43:10 -0400
>Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 09:34:54 -0400
>To:"Jennifer Hixson" <Jennifer.Hixson@forsythe.stanford.edu>
>From:prevatt@lds.loral.com (Truman Prevatt)
>Subject:Re: [endurance] Seeking tips.
>
>>I have two questions for you experienced endurance riders...
>>
>>1) For those trying to do it all and work full time... How do you
>>condition, and train in the winter months?? Do you just ride in the
>>dark, rain, and mud. I know these are all variables in an endurance
>>ride and should be experienced by both horse and rider before an
>>actual ride... but how much do you actually do? I'd appreciate any
>>tips any of you have for this new endurance rider... especially
>>about riding in the dark.
>>
>
>A bit of a pain to have to work! I live in an area where there are no
>through roads and the fences have to be back from the roads. The are a
>few cleared drainage ditch easements that double for horse trails. Using
>the roads and ditchs I can get in a good 10 miles or so on these trails.
>I do about a mile of warmup, six to eight miles of 10 mph work and a mile
>of cool down on these trails about once a mid week (during the winter)
>rain or shine usually finishing about dawn. This takes about an hour to
>hour an 1/2. This is done rain or shine unless the weather is completely
>horrable. I actually like riding in the dark. It is a unique experience
>and is quite peaceful.
>
>On most weekends we go stay near a state forest and do a good 20 to 25
>mile ride one day on the weekend. This is mostly LSD with uphill
>galloping mixed in. We usually stop about half way at a small restruant,
>rest and water the horses had have breakface.
>
>In the summer (our off season) I back way off and only do enough to keep
>her legged up and that is mostly trotting.
>
>>2) Is anyone out there riding in a Collegiate Marathon, or a
>>Campbell Paragon saddle (Val, I think you said you are in one of the
>>two). I'd like to hear your opinions on these saddles if anyone has
>>one.
>>
>>Thanks oodles,
>>
>>Jennifer Layman
>>Palo Alto, CA
>>
>>
>>
>>To: ENDURANCE@MOSCOW.COM
>
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The race is not always to the swift, but to those that keep running.
Truman and Mystic "The Horse from HELL" Storm
prevatt@lds.loral.com - Sarasota, Florida
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