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If this is the case I probably should have been doing 25's all my life.
Dinah Rojek recently told me they very seldom ride over 1 1/2 hours.
Steve has something like over 100 100 milers. When I first got in this
sport I read articles that said to train this much and I did...but don't
know if it works because my horses always went lame before the rides. >g<

Angie (whose horse morphs at a ride into a faster animal. No way I can
train faster at home!)

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:27:05 -0500 "larry Miller" <jcmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> 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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