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You have to put the 100's where you can put them. Except for one year 
(2006) the SE has had at least 8 100's every year. Some years 10, some 
years 9. The times haven't gotten any faster since 1996 on basically the 
same trails. The Far Out Forest - 100 miles of deep sugar sand was won 
in 1994 in 13:22 and this year in 15:06.

The rise in metabolics is interesting. Maybe in the old days metabolics 
- electrolyte imbalance - showed up as rear end stiffness and lameness 
was the reason for the pull. Now today with electrolytes they go further 
and the metabolic issues are showing up. Maybe in the old days, the 
rider would pull and claim RO where now today the RO is only used for 
rider issues not rider thinking the horse is not right - that's a 
metabolic pull. Who knows - not sufficient data in the data base to 
address it. But what did show up was in a 50 you were more likely to be 
pulled for lameness than you were in a 100 and in a 100 you were more 
likely to be pulled for metabolics than for lameness. That seems to be a 
fundamental difference between the distances.

A 100 is not the same as 2 50's the same as a 50 is not 2 LD's. The 
stresses in a 100 are greater than those in a 50 and I think that is 
what is showing up.

Truman

Cindy Collins wrote:

> Truman:  My thoughts are that more and more 100s are fast loops these
> days...especially with the ridiculous pressures from FEI/international
> requirements for speed.  You say metabolic problems have increased on
> 100s.  I say perhaps the "dumbing down" of 100 mile trails and the need to
> ride at speed to compete internationally, contribute to this problem. 
> Perhaps I'm totally off base, but my gut tells me that these fast,
> relatively flat 100s more closely resemble 50s, than people/horses who are
>  


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"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite 
of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."    Niels Bohr 
-- Nobel Laureate, Physics




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