pedometers/mileage

["S. Willis" <smw@sos.net>]

Hi,

I've been lurking quite some time now and have yet to see a post
concerning how you measure the miles you ride for conditioning. I know
some of our local riders have there own conditioning trails and have the
mileage marked, but if you don't know the mileage of a particular trail
how do you find it short of having someone on a motorcycle follow you
the entire way? Do you just average your horse's travelling speed - ie 7
miles per hour equals 21 miles for a 3 hour ride? How do you come up
with the base travelling speed?

Sorry for all the questions - I'm just anxious to get out and ride and
my endurance horse won't be ready for that for another two years! I do
quite a bit of trail riding on my other 8 year old horse, but he's
definately not endurance material....too bulky.

Anyway, I have a human pedometer and wondered if anyone had figured out
how to make it work for a horse - mine can be set for a stride length as
long as 6 feet, and I thought if I played around with it a bit I might
get some half way decent readings......anyone else tried this? Where
would you mount it on the horse? On me, it hangs from my hip pocket, and
measures each step as my hips rock the pendulum inside. I thought
perhpaps mounted on the breast collar it would rock on the diagonal of a
trot....

Susan


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