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PLEASE listen to The Source on this folks and disregard my earlier email.

As a matter of fact, I'm going to follow his advice for 20 Mule Team 100. 
(Like I could ever be in Joe Long's class even if I followed his advice--in 
my dreams!)

Joe--I just gots to know--you didn't really manage to complete a 100 one 
week after doing a 50??

--Dabney


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Long" <jlong@xxxxxxxx>
To: "sherman" <sherman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] Time off before 100's


> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:50:45 -0800, "sherman" <sherman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I was browsing through the Decade Team stories, and saw that several
> > decade team riders give their horses time off, maybe 2 or 3 weeks,
> > prior to a 100 mile ride, and then 2-4 weeks off after as well. Can
> > anyone with years of experience with 100's, tell me if this usually
> > complete time off, with only pasture turn-out, or, are the horses
> > usually still ridden lightly. We (daughter & I) are planning our
> > first 100 in July (Tevis), and don't want to overtrain and go with
> > worn out horses, but we do want them to be fit enough to handle it.
>
> Well, I always like to ride a 50 one week prior to a 100 as a "tuneup" 
> ride, but
> every time I say something like this someone points out that I had an 
> atypical
> horse, so take that into consideration.
>
> I do think 2-3 weeks off would take the edge off and be counterproductive 
> for
> most horses.  You want to continue enough exercise to keep at peak 
> fitness.
>
> --
>
> Joe Long
> jlong@xxxxxxxx
> http://www.rnbw.com
>
>
>
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