Re: Re: 3rd Loop Blues?

["Maggie Mieske" <mmieske@netonecom.net>]

I have had luck doing back to back 25s....a 25 comp one day and 25 LD the
next.  I have also found that finding a 50 mile ride that has the halfway
point out of camp (a 25 mile loop) works great in keeping them going and
myself as well.


Maggie Mieske
Mieske's Silver Lining
10601 S. Richards Rd.
McBain, Michigan 49657
http://www.netonecom.net/~mmieske
mmieske@netonecom.net

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> From: Sue Brown <sbrown@wamedes.com>
> To: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Cc: CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com; milamj@agtelco.com
> Subject: RC:  Re: 3rd Loop Blues?
> Date: Thursday, July 06, 2000 2:02 AM
> 
> >milamj@agtelco.com writes:
> >
> ><< Neither ride taxed my horse physically, but his behavior changed on
the
> >3rd loop in both rides. Friends warned me about the psychological let
> >down there might be as you start the 3rd loop, due to only doing 2 in
> >the past with LD. >>
> >
> >That's one reason I don't like to have my horses do LD's--I don't like
to 
> >"teach" them that the routine on an LD is what we are going to be doing
in 
> >competition.  You indicate that the problem was not as bad at your last 
> >ride--you will likely be able to train through it.
> >
> >Heidi
> >
> 
> This brings up a concern of mine since I've been conditioning an older
> horse that I brought out of the pasture a couple of years ago where he
had
> been firmly established as Head Pasture Potato for several years.  I
wanted
> to start competing with him and was told that LD was the place to
> start...learn the ropes and bring the horse along (up to) 50s gradually.
> Now I read from different folks how it's not so good to ride horses in LD
> because then they think they're finished and that those who have been
> involved in this sport a while don't want to deal with the problems that
> riding LD apparently causes the horse.
> 
> So what is the best way...especially when you don't know if a horse could
> do a 50 yet?  (Howard says there's a *big* difference.)  What if the
horse
> is ready for LD but not for a longer distance...do you wait it out and
not
> compete in order to not give the horse the wrong idea about what will
> eventually be expected of him?  What about the folks that only have one
> horse and don't want to wait but want to enjoy the aspects of endurance
> riding before the horse is ready to do a 50?  How many long term
> competitors actually *do* wait until the horse is ready for a 50 before
> they go to their first competition?
> 
> Sue (on my never-ending quest to do it all *right*. ;-))
> 
> 
> 
> sbrown@wamedes.com
> Tyee Farm
> Marysville, Wa.
> 
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