Re: RC: RE: Old Timers

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated Wed, 11 Jul 2001  2:17:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Dbeverly4@aol.com writes:

> > I think the original question was whether someone had done it with a 100   
> miler. Did someone ride a 100 miler on one horse, then again the same day   
> ride a second horse on that same 100 miler. I just don't see how that would   
> be possible. A 50 you can understand, but a 100? (Makes me legs shake just   
> thinking about it!!! Yikes)  >>

Well, it would certainly be physically possible, on some of our easier trails.  In those same "olden days" we had a few 150-milers and a rare 200-miler or two, allotted 36 and 48 hours respectively.  I know some of the 150's were won in well under 24 hours, and can't remember the winning times on the 200's (the one I was familiar with was in rough terrain, so faster speeds would have been difficult).  However, given a good desert trail, a full moon, and a fresh horse for the second 100, I don't see where it would be particularly impossible to do.  Just a matter of ethics in competition, which is why AERC halted the practice.

Heidi