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[RC] How far have we come? - k s swigartTom Sites said: So the question is: Can a person today riding 3 horses go 200 miles in 10 hours? That means each horse is going 66.6 miles in 3.33 hours. No, it doesn't. Assuming that each horse was ridden the same amount of time but that the rider switched among the horses fairly frequently (which is what I suspect is what was done by William Tevis), what it means that each horse went 66.6 miles in about 10 hours. Granted, only about 3.33 hours of that was time spent actually moving forward, but that means that 6.66 hours was spent resting. It is a grave mistake to assume that time spent resting is not time spent (although it is a common one, since the AERC makes it every time they publish the ride results and don't include the hold time as part of the time required to negotiate the course). I would be willing to bet that many of today's ride & tie horses would have no trouble doing this. A ride & tie is, after all, pretty much the same thing, short bursts of speed to cover ground with longer periods of rest; although polo ponies (horses that are much more conditioned to produce short bursts of speed) might be an even better choice. If anybody wants to provide the polo ponies, I have a bay mare. kat Orange County, Calif. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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