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[RC] What makes you do this? - rides2farAnd like I said, how fit are the riders anyway? Some couldn't run 100 yards, some couldn't even trot their horses at the vet, someone else did it for them. How many marathon runners can ride a horse 50 miles? I once sold a horse to a recently released Marine who ran 10 miles a day and did martial arts. I had just had a baby about 3 weeks before the sale. The marine asked me to take him on a trail ride. I asked him how long he'd enjoy riding because I didn't want him to get too sore. He smiled kindly and said, "I don't mean to brag, but I run 10 miles a day and do daily Tai Chi (or whatever it was) and I don't get sore. So...we took a fairly mile ride for about 4 hrs. He was so sore he couldn't stand it after three! I know some very hefty, but ride fit, women who wouldn't have even been warmed up! He was a good sport about it. He did ride side saddle some but refused to get off and jog like I suggested. I was fine though I really hadn't ridden in 9 mo. of pregnancy...but the boobs were definately getting into *your* unacceptably large zone by the time I got back to my infant. >g< I wonder if you'd have had the same opinion of the horses if you'd been on the trail with them. The best endurance horses tend to look exhausted in the vet check because they're smart and they "rest hard". When I was a rookie I admired the ones that were all "up" and pulling around in the check but I've learned those are the ones who are gonna get tired. My horse's head is down & eating or dozing in a check but I wish you luck if you're in charge of holding him when the crowd he was traveling with leaves! I talked to a barrel race lady on the phone today. I told her I used to do that and would have kept on if my horses had been having as much fun as I was. It didn't seem like a difficult or upsetting thing to do but the horse's obviously didn't enjoy it. I can honestly say my horses *do* enjoy endurance. He has run away with me at 85 miles. He has been hopping up and down in the front when he had to wait another minute to leave at 90 miles. It's not for all horses...but it's definately for some and heaven help them if they'd been born to someone who wanted to blanket them and wrap them in bubble wrap in a stall somewhere. Angie ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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