Hold times longer...

["Michael K. Maul" <mmaul@flash.net>]

My comment on the hold times is related to Tevis which we
completed this year for the first time - and first try.

My horse was really hungry in the mid parts of the ride and 
I did not like to pull him away from food when he was so
clearly hungry.  Two of us were riding together the whole ride
and had the same problem.

But during this time we were coming close to the cutoff times
and I did not want to fight a cutoff problem the whole rest of
the ride. 

It seems to me a lot of people had this problem on Tevis this 
year with my guess - a larger number of DNF due to cutoff times.
Still have not seen any breakout from the tevis statistics
on this but a quarter of the riders from our local club
DNF due to cutoffs. And very experienced riders at that.

Bottom line for me was that I felt that the line on getting them 
enough to eat - and still completing the ride was more 
difficult for me on Tevis than any other ride I have done.

We did get enough to eat but I would have liked to have had more.

Mike Maul
W/CT Regions
Sunnyvale/Houston


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