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Just curious how many miles a week you guys ride in order to condition your 
horse for 25/50/100 miler. On another list I belong to (not 
endurance-related), someone said that their vet recommended riding the same 
number of miles per week as you want to compete (so, if you wanted to do 50 
mile rides, you would ride 50 miles per week).

I know there are other considerations besides milage to consider: speed, 
weather, terrain, etc. I'm just trying to get a handle on how much time it 
takes if you want to condition for 50 milers or even 100 milers, and if it 
is plausible to be able to do it when you have a demanding full time job and 
don't have direct access to trails (have to trailer out to trails).

Also, once you actually start the competitive season, how much riding do you 
do to maintain your horse's fitness?

(If any experienced riders would like to share their training logs, I'd be 
happy to compile the information and provide it to John/Steph so they can 
link to it from endurance.net. I'm sure other newbies would be very 
interested.)

Thanks!

Karen and Mazzie

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