Re: Re: Dance Line

["Tamara Jane Habberley" <tamarahabberley@lineone.net>]

Hi

One of the reasons Im so sceptical about heart rate monitors is that my
horses lowest ever heart rates have been when he has been vetted out ie. 40
bpm after a CTR where he was on the cusp of developing impact laminites on a
very stoney ride ahving completed a similiar stoney ride two weeks before
with no front shoes  ( all my fault, the guilt was horrendous I should have
stopped at the first check point and didnt).

Happy as larry and fit as a lark he never vets below 46bpm.  The one real
use I found for my heart rate montior was a a tractor detector. If the beats
went above 270 - 300 bpm i knew a tractor was baout to come into view...

Tamara

----- Original Message -----
From: <CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com>
To: <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>; <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 4:29 PM
Subject: RC: Re: Dance Line


> In a message dated 3/24/00 8:08:17 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> fasterhorses@gilanet.com writes:
>
> <<  When a person is
>  focusing on equipment, he/she tends to not relax and soften into feeling
>  the big picture.  Perhaps not the best explanation on my part, but it's
>  right along with what Tamara wrote.  Lif >>
>
> Lif, I've always felt that novices have too much to figure out and they
tend
> to fixate on the monitor rather than listen to the horse.  I like to see
> novices limit HRM use to specific purposes (such as perhaps charting time
> over a set course at a set HR once a week, or as an occasional pacing
lesson
> to "check" themselves) until they are fairly proficient at the basics.
Once
> those basics are second nature, then they don't tend to fixate on the
monitor
> and seem to be much more able to incorporate what they get from it into
the
> overall performance to "fine-tune" what they are doing.  Rome wasn't built
in
> a day, and neither are endurance horses or riders--green riders have
PLENTY
> of time to get a solid foundation before worrying about the fine-tuning.
I
> liken it to learning to fly without a Loran or a GPS--if you learn to fly
> using charts and basic nav tools, you never forget that, and you later
learn
> to use the high-tech precision stuff as an adjunct to that, instead of as
the
> be-all and end-all.  If your instrumentation screws up for any reason, you
> have the experience to trust your gut when you see a mountain over on your
> left that is not supposed to be there according to the charts, and the
skills
> to revert to the basics and survive.
>
> Heidi  (who had to fly charts over the Rockies as a green pilot when the
> equipment failed and the VOR at Jackson Hole, Wyoming was out of
commission,
> and who thanked her lucky stars for an old-fashioned instructor who had
> hammered on those basics!)
>
>
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