SPIRIT - AN ENDURANCE HORSE SOME DAY
Trying to figure out a catchy title for Spirit's story...think I'll stick with the one above till I have time to think of something a little more creative. Today, Tuesday April 17, 2012, we went a total of 9 miles. 8.5 miles at 7.3 mph with 1/4 mile at beginning and end for warm up/cool down. I was planning on three trips up Leland's but only did two - the boy felt tired and I didn't have a heart rate monitor on. Although I must say, he seemed to have a lot more energy going up the 2nd time. I just finished reading about something called "negative splits" (last laps faster than first laps) and how they are considered a good thing when training a horse for endurance. Well, I haven't figured out yet how to set my GPS for "laps" but I did not need a GPS to tell me that the 2nd lap was faster than the 1st lap today...we crawled the first lap and I had to hold him back on the 2nd.
Note: Summer and Pam were with us.
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