Re: Re: mileage debate

["Maryanne Stroud Gabbani" <gabbani@starnet.com.eg>]

> Answer is not "fear overtraing". Overtraining can occur at virtually any
level of
> workload, if something is wrong on the regime. Riding habits, footing,
speed,
> feeding, equipment, horse-care, to name a few. It will occur, true, faster
on a
> high level. the more you ride, or the faster you ride, the nastier the
effects of
> disturbance will be. But cutting the workload alone then will not help
much.
> Under a certain minimum workload training becomes senseless. Only make
sharp
> 1-hour-rides in training, go to a hot 50-miler, run the speed you have
trained,
> and have a good chance your horse colick or die due to overheating!
Overtraining,
> in this sense, has at least one good: it shows the limiting factor on
which to
> work.


Training and overtraining is a concern with the novices (as we all are) in
Cairo largely because about 60% of our horses' work is done in deep sand.
My new gelding came to me fit by certain standards as he spent about 3 hours
a day doing lesson work on some very nice footing.  Carrying an adult, as
opposed to a child, in deep sand he's pretty tired after an hour ride at
walk and trot, so we are working up slow.  Frankly, doing 300+ km a week in
our sand would probably wipe out any horse.

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
gabbani@starnet.com.eg


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