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RE: [RC] [RC] Trot Speed. - Laurie Durgin

Which horse are you referrring to? (Sounds like my Rasscal )Laurie (hope you haven't been eating any "bee" sandwiches lately ;0)

  He drops into a dead on easy swing trot at 8 min mile - like he can go
  all day long.. his HR is about 110 to 115 on the flat. The GPS and
  the pedometer while at the trot were close enough for me to accept.

The older GPS of years ago were not as good as the new ones.

I asked for a increase in speed- He can go along very easy at 8 to
10 MPH, but he prefers about 8. His HR will jump from 115/120 to
125/130 when I ask for the 10 mph trot. It is sort of difficult to
find LONG FLAT trails here but it is sort of relative. I have enough
to prove out the point, the GPS is accurate enough for use as a
training tool and teaching tool.. i.e. what does a 10mph trot 'feel
' like? and so on.. along with the HR data that says his best working
HR is about 120 at the trot of 8 mph.
If I ask for more he will move out but wants to fall back to the pace
that is within his comfort zone.
At a walk he likes about 2.5 mph with a HR of 80-90 WAY too slow - so I work him at about
3 to 4. I think it is just him. I cannot get him to keep the 4 mph walk
going.
Canter he likes about 12 to 15 mph. Varies due to the trail. Hr will
be about 130 to 140. (on the flat) If we were in a pushed out hard trot over 10 mph
he prefers to canter and the HR will drop 5 to 10 bpm.

By using the techie tools I can see where he works the best and why he
likes a certain  speeds at all 3 gaits. It is where he is in balance with
all systems. I do not think this can be changed that much, its a
natural synergistic balance for THAT horse.

I can condition him to accept the higher speeds at the trot and
canter/gallop, but the basic working level of effort during a ride has
to be where he most conformable and or efficient.

The object of my conditioning program is to move him out of that zone
to work at higher levels of effort and hope for a modification of that
balanced working zone. At least the horse's systems can learn and adapt to
accept the higher work levels without damage. Given to their own
selection of gait/speed they will fallback to this balanced zone.

The use of the techie tools helps a rider to learn this about each
horse, way faster with less chance of error then doing it the old way by trial
- error and ride till broken.

I think after the convention I will put my CONDITIONING TRANING GUIDE on
the web site. Some 'may' get something    from it.

Guess this was a ramble-on post


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 Roger                          mailto:roger@xxxxxxxxxxx


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