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[RC] Training at home was: 30 minutes - k s swigartBruce Weary said: The fact that veterinary help is available at the finish line is not, again, in my opinion, a rationale for riding a tiring horse so fast that he cannot pulse down in 30 minutes. We should ride as though there is no veterinary help available all day--just like we do when we train hard at home. The winner is not the first to the finish line.<< I have, on many occasions, trained sufficiently hard at home that my horse did not "recover" to some endurance ride like HR (e.g. 60 to 68) within 30 minutes. I often challenge my horses much more cardiovascularly at home than I ever would at a ride. I have, in fact, been known to go out for training gallops where I run the HR up to 240+, something I would never do at a ride. I don't take the fact that the horse's heart rate might not have "recovered" sufficiently to complete an endurance ride to indicate that the horse is in any kind of distress, nor do I take it to mean, necessarily, that I shouldn't ride the horse a step further because it is not "fit to continue, and I am generally unconcerned that "there is no veterinary help available" at least not, on site. I would even be willing to ride such a horse for another five miles back to the barn if we were well out in the hills after I got done with this intense cardiovascular work out, and use such a walk back to the barn as a "cool down" from an intense workout. It doesn't make any sense to me at all to compare training hard at home with what is done at an endurance ride; and this has nothing to do with the presence or non-presence of a vet. kat Orange County, Calif. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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