Re: Endurance: Icelandics for Endurance

Karen Steenhof (steenhof@cyberhighway.net)
Sun, 22 Dec 1996 07:28:00 -0700

> From: Leif Neland <leifn@roskildebc.dk>
> To: endurance@moscow.com
> Subject: Endurance: Icelandics for Endurance
> Date: Friday, December 20, 1996 12:36 PM
> They can do shorter distances, a days jurney on the Icelandic plains (or
what
> it is called) is around 40-50 km, well around 30 miles.
>
> It has been tried, but they are really too insulated for enduring
endurance.
>
At the 1995 Lost Wagon 5-day Endurance ride, a woman named Carol Wadey rode
a northern (mesomorphic?) pony. I think it might have been a fjord rather
than an Icelandic. Anyway, she won fastest overall time for the 5 days!

Karen Steenhof
Boise, Idaho
steenhof@cyberhighway.net