Ridecamp: Re: [RC] National IAHA Championship on TV

On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:24:15 EST, SandyDSA@xxxxxxx wrote:

>In a message dated 11/8/2002 6:04:47 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
>bolinger@xxxxxxxxxx writes:

>> Look at the winning time for that race...It was something ridiculous like 8 
>> 1/2 hours for 100 miles.

>WHAT?????? Oh GOOD GOD! What idiot is riding their horse at thsi kind of 
>pace? If what you saw you saw - and of course, you wouldn't bring it up if 
>you didn't - clearly that pace was profoundly idiotic - and cruel. I cannot 
>imagine what I would tell MY horsey friends in that instance. 8 hours is a 
>respectable finishing time for a lot of 50 MILERS!!!! I don't know about you 
>guys but I am appalled.
>s

Kahlil and I finished an honest 100-mile ride in under nine hours, and
we finished third (second place was a Junior I sponsored).  I
literally had a runaway at the finish.  We did the last leg, 15 miles,
in one hour flat because I didn't want to sprint a downhill near the
end.  The last mile was up a hill, then down.  I sprinted up as fast
as he could run trying to pull away from the other Senior rider, and
when I tried to slow Kahlil at the top I couldn't slow him down.
There were people in a pickup truck following us, hollering and
cheering at the last-mile sprint -- the driver said we went up the
hill at over 25 MPH.  We did get Best Condition.

That was on a (mostly) flat course, on excellent footing, and a cool
day.

Oh, we did a sub-8-hour "100" once, but that was a short trail.

-- 

Joe Long
jlong@xxxxxxxx
http://www.rnbw.com




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