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Fw: [RC] Sub-Optimal Performance (was: Apples/Oranges/UAE) - Dot WigginsI have to agree with Kat here. I have spent many years on endurance rides under the constraints of my cow country upbringing. "Never ask more of the horse than you need to get the job done" I like finishing with a horse still ready, able, and willing, to go on if needed. And I have a hard time with the old "bucket" strategy. "Start with a full bucket, if at the end of the ride you have a lot left in the bucket, you didn't ride fast enough. If the bucket gets empty before the end you rode too hard." Been too many times when the "end" wasn't where it was supposed to be. Empty bucket bad, some left over good. ----- Original Message ----- From: "k s swigart" <katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 9:31 PM Subject: [RC] Sub-Optimal Performance (was: Apples/Oranges/UAE) Terre said:To put it another way, most people don't set out to produce a sub-optimal performance.Depending upon how you define "sub-optimal" (since one COULD define "optimal" to be that which you set out to do, in which case it would be axiomatic that it is impossible to set out to produce a sub-optimal performance :)). If, however, what you mean by sub-optimal is to produce something less than the horse's best possible performance on any individual day, then I can honestly say, that at least for me you are wrong. At every endurance ride I go to I actively seek to produce this kind of sub-optimal performance. I try very hard (although I confess that I don't always succeed) to never ask my horse to get any where near the extent of its capabilities. And, I suspect that I am not alone in this....but if I am, I shouldn't be. :) kat Orange County, Calif. ============================================================ Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances... The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action... ~ DH Lawrence ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================ ============================================================ You don't have to be a 100-mile rider or a multi-day rider to be an endurance rider, but if you want to experience the finest challenges our sport has to offer, you need to do both of those. ~ Joe Long ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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