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They work great at 30 or above - set your cruse control at 5 to 10 mph 
and check it.

Truman

Karen wrote:

> At 10:41 AM 2/24/2004, you wrote:
>
> > Might want to test your unit in your car first to calibrate it.
>
>
> done that....use the GPS to the laptop when I travel in the truck.  
> It's pretty amazing how accurate it is.  I haven't been riding with 
> one recently.....but maybe I should start back again!!!
>
> I should also caution people that just because I said that some of the 
> best multiday horses can and do trot at 14 mph or over, that there 
> aren't that many that do that, we're only talking a handful, and those 
> horses are in the hands of experienced riders and have been developed 
> over many seasons to be able to work like that.  I never let my own 
> horse Rocky go at any kind of speed like that until he probably had 
> more than 1200 miles (at least), and never have felt comfortable 
> letting him do it often.  That may be why he is approaching 7,000 
> miles. :-)   I know when I go out on training rides that we trot at XX 
> speed (whatever it is) because I've got measured trail and have ridden 
> it a bazillion times.  Yet, even tho I know I am at times trotting at 
> a fairly fast rate, I only average about 5 or 6 mph for my overall 
> speed.  I have to work fairly hard to get an average speed that 
> high!   If I am feeling up to it, I can go out and gallop a lot of it 
> and then my average goes up a bit but because of the couple of miles I 
> spend walking to get to the trail and back (warmup and cooldown), it 
> really makes my average much slower.  One of the best training aids 
> I've used in the past was the Suunto watch which would let me set a 
> target zone for HR and I would then build up the horses to spend more 
> time working in that zone, and think that worked best over miles, 
> speed, etc.  I found out how much I had to pay attention to actually 
> keeping the working rate up for ten minutes or twenty minutes, and 
> could increase it gradually.  karen


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