tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920971397380941204.post7965812803595910368..comments2023-10-08T09:37:18.894-04:00Comments on Endurance Granny: Newbie: 60 days (give or take) to enduranceJacke Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13576351940350712538noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920971397380941204.post-11131955227463377922014-07-07T16:42:40.079-04:002014-07-07T16:42:40.079-04:00Sounds like you are doing great! I have very litt...Sounds like you are doing great! I have very little flat here where I live, and my training rides are extremely difficult to get over 4.5 on the average. So I do that speed on my LSD days. What I am currently doing to try and increase her overall speed is sprinting on our shorter ride days ...it is then I push for a bit faster in my expectation. Journey doesn't see much sense in cantering, but slowly..........I'm getting her to pick it up on cue. In the beginning it was truly 3-6 strides and she'd fall back to a trot. We are currently at a 1/4 mile before she says give. But that 1/4 mile once every mile picked up our average speed for the training ride by 1.5 mph. You won't build speed over night. More like over a year....or in our case um....almost three years *LOL*. If you can complete your LD's in the cutoff, you are well on your way to a longer distance if you so desire. Especially if the goal is to finish.<br /><br />My longest hill is maybe ...a quarter mile, probably less. Even if you have a short one of a few hundred feet, trot up, walk down, trot up, walk down, etc. I spend about an hour at it, watching pulse to make sure she isn't hanging. When she can't come down to pulse in about 90 seconds we are done for the session. For a long time she couldn't trot all the way up a hill. She is handling them much better now. When she gets strong enough we will start galloping the hill. Maybe next year, ha!All Who Wanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15811193190492037859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920971397380941204.post-69425094960148449522014-07-07T15:10:07.726-04:002014-07-07T15:10:07.726-04:00Ponder, ponder.
I run into problems at Day One. U...Ponder, ponder.<br />I run into problems at Day One. Unless the stars all align and she's really moving out, getting that speed in training rides has been dang near impossible. We're walking all the downhills, trotting all the flats (though walking past hikers for courtesy's sake), trotting as much of the uphill as she's willing (at this point, probably 75-90%). 4.5mph pace is typical when I'm not pushing hard, and even that is progress over two years back. <br /><br />Also, any advice on how best to modify for those of us lacking gradual hills? Though now I'm pondering where we can ride out to find some. Hmm.<br />(Context: Haflinger mare, we live in the hills, completed 3 LDs and a NATRC ride thus far)Figurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02344675725634191104noreply@blogger.com