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The way it is envisioned is: when a person signs up they will request a 
"screen name," e.g. "trotting queen" and a password. The only 
information that will be required by the web master is the email address 
so the person can be notified of when their area in the database is has 
been set up. Our web master has a very short memory span, and noone else 
would have this informatio so there would be no correlation between the 
email address and screen name.

On trail time/recovery time would be excellent numbers to keep track of. 
Just think if during the debate of the MMS dual check criteria was being 
debated if we could have had some inkling of how fast people normally 
make parameters how much more informed the debate could have been?

So it could be useful in at least shining some light on the sport and it 
could be invaluable in allowing individual people to track the progress 
of both their horse, e.g., it used to take him 10 minutes to come down, 
not it only takes him 5 or it used to take him 5 but now it takes 10, 
(is there a potental problem), to correlate different training with 
different ride results, etc.

So I'm all ears as to what people would like to see.

Truman

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> Truman,
>
> The interesting thing I found when crunching numbers from the top 10
> rider's cards was to record not AERC "ride time" but the actual time
> spent on the trail (subtract recovery time). If this info remains private
> where either those who crunch the numbers do not see rider names, or only
> the rider sees it, I'd suggest that they list recovery times and true
> traveling time. Otherwise probably the only ones who'd be good about
> recording it would be those who are proud of their recoveries.
>
> Case in point where this has interested me. Ben Amil, the horse Josie
> rides started getting girth rubs 2 years ago. Up until that time his
> recoveries had always been better than Kaboots (or practically anyone
> else's). As he aged his skin got loose and no matter what girth or
> lubricants we tried he got rubs. I knew we were conditioning less simply
> because we were avoiding rubs at home too so wasn't surprised when his
> recoveries started being the same or slower than Kaboots...then we
> decided to just ride with an extremely loose girth. BINGO. Rather than 60
> he was 48. Recovery times can often tell you things *other* than your
> horse's conditioning level. When we're looking at our cards wondering
> when a problem started, the slow rise in recovery rate times would be a
> great clue.
>
> I read in Endurance World something about how the top horses were
> trotting right into the box. My experience with a super recovering horse
> was that if I would slow down and walk/trot the last 1/2 - 3/4 mi. he
> passed those who hurried in (even the very good ones). Tracking recovery
> times vs. true mph (time traveled minus recovery times) could let us know
> which method worked best for this horse.
>
> Angie
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