Re: RC: Runners and horses

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 10:23 PM 1/24/01, guest@endurance.net wrote:
>I just read that human marathoners do not run 10K and 20K races, therefore 
>horses should not be in LD if they are in fact 50 racers.

Karla - this was straightened out privately, but unless I missed a post I 
don't think anyone ever wrote that horses *should not* be in LD if they are 
fast 50 racers, and I don't think that the speed of competition was the 
issue at all, just the distance.  I myself wrote that the marathoners *I* 
knew didn't do shorter distances and compared that to horses.  In other 
emails it came out that I was using the term marathoner loosely, and was 
speaking of ultra-marathoners, many of whom do not use the 10-20K races to 
condition or train in, but do use longer races (shorter than the ultra 
distances).

So I stand partially corrected on that.  To carry the analogy through, it 
seems that 50 mile horses could benefit from LDs, but that 100 mile horses 
might not, but would on the other hand benefit from 50 milers as 
conditioning races.  It's all relative.

Lif Strand
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