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With the current rules it strikes me that you could take 2 horses to one 
of the faster 50s, that has all of it's vet checks in camp, do loop 1 on 
horse A, hand it to your crew and head out on loop 1 with horse B. When 
you get back to camp horse A will have overstayed his hold by a half 
hour or so and be ready to gallop loop 2. You wouldn't even have to come 
in conservatively because it wouldn't matter if the horse took a while 
to pulse down. Two things prevent me from doing this: 1) I don't have 
that kind (or usually any kind) of crew. 2) I'm not sure I would enjoy 
galloping 100 miles with no rests at all.   Libby

Marinera@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Sometime in the 70s there was a 100 miler starting at midnight and a 
> 50 miler
> starting at 6 or 7 a.m. the same day just a few miles apart. Much of 
> the two rides was on the same trail.  I decided I could do both. I 
> started at midnight, rode the first horse 50 miles and handed him to a 
> friend.  I went to the other ride site, made it in time,_  _and rode 
> Gazal  fifty miles.  I then returned to the first now well rested 
> horse and continued on the 100 miler.  It was all rather ill fated. 
> The first  horse was a terrible spooker and had dumped me twice in the 
> dark in the early morning.  When I returned to him the other 100 
> milers were now well ahead of me and I was out there alone with people 
> complaining that I was holding up the vet stops.  He (his name was 
> Comet) dumped me again and I quit.
>
> Because we were a new organization, we had few rules and I had not 
> broken any. I apparently was the only one who recognized the 
> possibility of doing two rides in one 24 hour period, or perhaps the 
> others were less demented than I.   Now you cannot have two rides on 
> the same day in more or less the same location and I am sure there are 
> other rules that apply also.    But I wish now I had  accomplished my 
> goal. I know I could have done it if I had just managed to stay aboard 
> the horse.
> Julie
>
>
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