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[RC] fast rides - larry Miller

Christina, rule of thumb. Your training rides should be faster than what you actually do at the ride. If you are going to ask for an 8 mph pace, train at a 9 or 10 mph pace at home. Another rule of thumb, if you plan on a 25 then you need to do 25 miles a week in training. 50, then do 50 training miles a week. Some even say if you want to do a 100, do 100 miles of training per week. I never did that for a 100 but I sure did some fast training miles in preparation and probably about 60 - 70 training miles a week. Then you have to remember that the last week before a ride, you cannot get your horse in any better shape than what he is already. So you need to back off some and only check for soundness before you go to the ride. Jeanie



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