Re: RC: About Tom.. to Susan

["Truman Prevatt, PhD" <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

An interesting sidebar. A very experienced endurance vet once told me that
"the race starts at 80 miles." Any good well conditioning endurance horse
can go 80 miles with the best endurance horse. It is that last 20 miles
that separates the good ones from the great ones. Maybe they have discovered
that in the UAE since the Worlds most preferred was 120 km, translated
to be about 72 miles.

Truman

"Barbara B. Peck" wrote:

> Susan..Your
> following paragraph made me laugh (but not at you.. I'm agreeing )You're
> soooo right-on.. although *some* people think he's the devil.And
> he IS a race track guy.I also think the sport of endurance,
> is going to be divided into 2groups (with or without
> Tom): racing and non-racing.... and they don't call racing the"sport
> of kings" for nothin'!  ($$$)These 80-100 mile
> races are Extreme Sport. Very different fromthe past.Barb Susan
> wrote:And - shudder - heresy - burn the witch at the
> stake....
> Tom Ivers is NOT God!  He's an brilliant innovator,
> an experimenter,
> a wealth of knowledge - but he's a race track guy, not
> an experienced endurance competitor.  Yes, we all
> learn
> an INCREDIBLE amount from him, and I'm hooked on it too.
> He's feeding us an incredible amount of knowledge of
> sports physiology and we all lap it up like the "GOT
> MILK"
> commercial.  But we have to take all of this knowledge
> and translate it to the context of our sport. The
> biochemistry is different for a flat track race vs. endurance.