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On a treadmill, I can walk 4 mph, if I really try hard, but 3.5 mph is more 
nearly a normal fast walk for me.  And I consider that I walk fairly fast. 
If I walk 2 mph, I almost lose my balance.  Most of my motions are generally 
fast, so much so that I occasionally bump into door jambs, etc.  I cannot 
believe that any human can walk (flat-footed, not a running walk) 10 mph. 
Or are we talking about horses walking 10 mph?  Even that is hard to 
believe.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Truman Prevatt" <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "k s swigart" <katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] 10 minute mile


> A 10 minute mile is six miles an hour. Thats a pretty good clip at a walk. 
> I suspect most horses average about 2 to 4 mph at the walk and most humans 
> are closer to 2 than to 4. At six mph I would expect most trotting horses 
> would jog or trot.
>
> Truman
>
> heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >     Virtually NOBODY walks a 10 minute mile (I can do it with a super
> >     power
> >     walk on a paved road. But nobody can keep up with me when I am doing
> >     it).
> >
> > My horse does.
> >
> >
> >     And how "fair" is it that rides that have finish lines further
> >     away from
> >     the vet check allow riders more time (because they are allowed the
> >     more
> >     time than the stated 30 minutes walk from the end of the race to
> >     the vet
> >     check) to vet in their horses than those rides that have the finish
> >     lines closer in?
> >
> > How "fair" is it to have a mile of your ride not counted in the ride 
> > timie? Gee, you can finish 49 miles in 12 hours and then take a whole 
> > additional hour right now to do your last mile.
> > At our ride, the mileage wasn't "finished" until you went the distance 
> > into camp. So why should you get the "freebie" time by stopping the clock 
> > a mile away? (Actually, at ours where we added 10 minutes, it was only 
> > half a mile, which I can walk on foot, even when I'm tired, if you want 
> > to get picky.)
> > Really, your ride time should reflect what it takes you to do the WHOLE 
> > course. So when there is reason to stop the racing some distance away 
> > from camp, the only "fair" way to calculate ride time is to add an 
> > average time that it takes people to do the last bit of the trail and add 
> > it onto the time when the clock "stopped" to stop the racing.
> > Heidi
> > PS: BTW, what earthly difference does it make to the topic under 
> > discussion if the time given in the example works for you or not?
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