Nat Champion, high miles, and holds at rides

[Lucy Chaplin Trumbull <elsie@calweb.com>]

Maggie Mieske wrote:
> 
> ....the Michigan Shore to Shore multiday ride
> (50 miles X 5 days) would be a great championship ride!!!

No, no. How 'bout Death Valley Encounter (50 x 5)? Mountains. Warm 
weather. Cold weather. Rocks. Rocks. No water. Rocks. Bleached 
skeletons (corpses?). Holiday season. Rocks. Did I mention rocks?

or Outlaw Trail? Ooooh, yes. More centrally located (kind of)(use your 
imagination here, guys). Utah, vacation destination of the gods (can 
you guess where we're going this year?) Mountains. Warm weather. Rocks. 
Pretty views. Red dirt. Yellow dirt. Brown dirt. White dirt, etc.

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Oh, and I just thought. When it comes down to it, the "get high miles"
system isn't particularly fair either. 

Here in W Region, we can ride year round, so I can get my 1000 miles at 
a rate of 83.33 miles a month.

Whereas for someone living in Idaho, the snow melts, what? around June? 
So they get about three minutes a year of clear trails. So they have to
cram their 1000 miles into two months (assuming the horse is still fit
from snow ploughing all winter). 

Then you get southern AZ... ride four months in the winter (so they just 
have to ride one 50 x 5 once a month), spend the rest of the summer 
bobbing in the pool while your degenerating horse twitches in the shade 
of a mesquite bush in 120°F.

Life's rough all over.

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CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com wrote:
> 
> I found that often the hour holds were too long...

Nope, I found that hour and half holds work best... horse doesn't
care, but I look a wreck until I've sat for that long. :)


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