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Hi Susan

Your mare should sail through those two 30s with energy to spare.  What I'd like to know is, when are you planning your first 50?  :) 

 

I would back off to doing one ride a day...your mare does need some down time for her body to build condition in response to the exercise.  The mileage you're doing (30-40 miles a week) is more than enough for doing back to back LDs.  If you want to know a secret, it's more than I do on my horse for 50s and an occasional 100.  ;)  Of course, you're still building base on your horse, so I don't recommend signing up for the next 100.  But if you've been riding steadily since spring, and have the desire to move up to 50s, then you certainly have a horse that should be ready whenever you feel that you are.  :)

 

Best of luck with your upcoming rides!  Let us know how they go!

 

Dawn Carrie, Texas

 

On 9/10/07, susan cooper <desertduty@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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/




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