Re: RC: RC: Carbo Charge on the Fly

[Tivers@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/31/99 4:01:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
rides2far@juno.com writes:

<< I really do have a hard time maintaining high heart rates
 and still keeping the horse sound. >


Yes, that is THE problem. 

 I have *one* mountain around here
 where I ride the shoulder of a public road.  Since it's groomed, I can
 maintain a steady pace, wheras on horse trails I keep having to break to
 a walk for bad rocks, and on the flat  I have to be absolutely winding it
 out, which is rough on legs (not to mention dangerous). >

Hills are a good solution. Even then, though, too much of it and you end up 
with sore backs.
 
 > Trouble is I can't get any training partners for competition on my
 "heart rate hill"  because everybody else hates to canter 6" from
 pavement.  There's not many places where it's safe footing on the
 shoulder like this because you're liable to hit broken bottles.  This
 mountain happens to have an exclusive neighborhood on top and they're
 pretty good about not chucking their Perrier bottles...but I still
 usually walk down on foot to clean it.
 
 Just to let you see the sort of variables you're not used to dealing
 with, in order to avoid tying up, which a friend's horse did just walking
 up a mountain as a warm up, I tend to unload my horse in the middle of a
 subdivision, often *very* early in the morning in the Summer, lead him
 round and round the cul-de-sac for 15 minutes while little yappy dogs
 wake up their owners and the garbage truck goes by, then turn his nose up
 the mountain and let it rip.
 
 Angie
 
 ___________________ >>

How far, how many "heats"?

ti


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