Home Current News News Archive Shop/Advertise Ridecamp Classified Events Learn/AERC
Endurance.Net Home Ridecamp Archives
ridecamp@endurance.net
[Archives Index]   [Date Index]   [Thread Index]   [Author Index]   [Subject Index]

[RC] Back to back rides - am I doing enough? - susan cooper


I have back to back 30 mile LD rides coming up Oct.
20/21 (High Desert Classic II and III if anyone's
planning on coming).  We completed the first High
Desert Classic back in April, but didn't do any more
as we had some training issues to work on (going out
alone, which still is not fixed!).  I am a newbie to
Endurance and this will be my first back to back.  I
tried seperating my mare to give her free choice hay
(a mostly alfalfa/grass mix) but she was depressed
being seperated from her herd, so I plan on just
seperating her at night to give her extra. She was
only eating 3 flakes/day free choice, anyway.  Plus a
little beet pulp/senior horse mix.  I will up her beet
pulp a week to 10 days prior to the ride.  I started
upping her rides to twice a day, and I felt I had a
ton on horse for the second ride of the day.  My
milage is 30-40 miles over 4 days.  Her resting HR is
33, and even at a mosey walk to the trail, my HR alarm
goes off because it is below 60.  Our working trot HR
is around 90 with longer trots at about 120 
which pulses down to 70 within 3 minutes of stopping. 
We walk the last mile home, and again, my alarm goes
off as her HR drops below 60 before we even get there.
I feel she is in pretty good shape and I know she
will do the first 30 easy, but am I doing enough for
her to do the second 30 the very next day?

Any and all help/comments will be appreciated


Susan in NV   
 Nevermore Ranch http://users.oasisol.com/nevermore/



      
____________________________________________________________________________________
Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play 
Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games.
http://sims.yahoo.com/  

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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!!

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=