Re: Anybody Else Think This is Funny?

["Susan Swope-Attardi" <Nagzarus@worldnet.att.net>]

I think what makes a jump course exhausting is the mental stress of it.
While five minutes on the trail may not seem like anything to us, five
minutes over a jump course is five minutes of shear adrenaline, speed and
uncertainty.   It's also extremely exhilarating... a downright thrill!  I
enjoyed it as a youth and young adult, but even so, I personally don't
believe I'd ever trade 50 miles down the trail for that stuff again!

Susan Swope-Attardi
AERC Southeast Region
Kentucky
----- Original Message -----
From: <Linda_Merims@ne.3com.com>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 5:15 PM
Subject: RC: Anybody Else Think This is Funny?


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> Lynn Glazer (quoting a jump course rider) said:
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> "I was nervous before the class, the jumps were really big on the big
> field", she added. "It was a long way to get around and I was really tired
> at the end and had to basically keep galloping.  It seemed like we were
out
> there forever.  It must have taken at least five minutes to get around the
> whole thing....
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> Well, it *is* funny on the face of it, but it is my guess that
> riding a jump course is more of an anaerobic activity, like
> running a sprint, than an aerobic activity.  It may be short,
> but it is very intense and can be wholly exhausting.  From my
> very limited experience learning to jump a course (and I was
> never any good at it), it was kind of like doing a downhill
> slalom course--everything you did in every split second had an
> effect on every remaining second of the round and there was almost
> no margin for error.  Five minutes is a long sprint.
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> Linda B. Merims
> lbm@ici.net
> Linda_Merims@ne.3com.com
> Massachusetts, USA
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