Re: Dressge cross training

["Dyane Smith" <sunibey@sisqtel.net>]

On Sunday, September 19, 1999 2:59 PM
Subject: RC: Dressge cross training


> Katy Watts kwatts@sni.net wrote:
>   My 4 YO 16H ArabX has been started with classical
>  dressage techniques, and I want to continue his education
> along those lines.  But, he's discovered cross country and
> mountains are FUN!  I once did a 25 mile intro AERC ride
> years ago on a straight shouldered Appy, and I thought
> I was cured of distance riding forever.  However, this
> horse has wonderful comfy gaits, and after 3 hours over
> foothills with my 100 mile endurance friend, I'm toying
> with the idea of entering a 30 mile ride in NM next spring.
> I would appreciate any of you who ALSO do dressage to
> advise me as to how we can condition/train for this ride
> WITHOUT loosing any ground in the dressage ring.
>   My friend thinks he'd be ready if she rode him for 6
> weeks, 15 miles or so, 3 days/ week, with me doing dressage
> 2 days/week.  We'd only ride to finish.  She's very pround
> to be at the end of the pack.
> Thanks in advance,
> Katy and Pizzazz,
>
I'd like to add a couple of questions:
1)  wouldn't riding hills improve the horse's fitness and balance and
wouldn't that work with dressage to improve BOTH?
2)  the plan, as I understand it, is for the endurance riding friend to
condition for the endurance ride and for Katy to continue riding dressage.
Isn't it important for the person who is going to do the ride (Katy, as I
understood it) to also be the one who conditions for the ride so that she is
conditioned also?
Dyane
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