Re: RC: RC: Carbo Charge on the Fly

[Rides 2 Far <rides2far@juno.com>]

>Probably is, if his purpose is further conditioning. Something tells >me
he >didn't get there exercising at between 100 and 120.

Gotcha. >g<  I really do have a hard time maintaining high heart rates
and still keeping the horse sound.  I have *one* mountain around here
where I ride the shoulder of a public road.  Since it's groomed, I can
maintain a steady pace, wheras on horse trails I keep having to break to
a walk for bad rocks, and on the flat  I have to be absolutely winding it
out, which is rough on legs (not to mention dangerous). 

 Trouble is I can't get any training partners for competition on my
"heart rate hill"  because everybody else hates to canter 6" from
pavement.  There's not many places where it's safe footing on the
shoulder like this because you're liable to hit broken bottles.  This
mountain happens to have an exclusive neighborhood on top and they're
pretty good about not chucking their Perrier bottles...but I still
usually walk down on foot to clean it.

Just to let you see the sort of variables you're not used to dealing
with, in order to avoid tying up, which a friend's horse did just walking
up a mountain as a warm up, I tend to unload my horse in the middle of a
subdivision, often *very* early in the morning in the Summer, lead him
round and round the cul-de-sac for 15 minutes while little yappy dogs
wake up their owners and the garbage truck goes by, then turn his nose up
the mountain and let it rip.

Angie

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