--- Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I hoped a few of you (Raven, Susan...) would share their schedules and experiences. <<
Well, here is my schedule: I work 13 1/2 hour days on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, so no matter the time of year, I don't do anything on those days but come home and crash! Every other weekend, I go to my second job which is 70 miles away, so I stay in a motel. I leave Friday about 2pm, so I usually have a chance to get in a morning ride on one horse. I leave 5:30 am on Monday morning, so I have all day Monday. Then, on the weekends I don't work, I have 4 days in a row to ride. (Actually, with my schedule, I work less days than someone who works 8 hour days 5 days a week, I just work WAAAAY more hours in those days) When I condition, I pick a 6 mile loop, and try to improve my time so I can do this loop in 1 hour and 15 minutes easily. This time of year, I am happy to do this loop in 1 hour 30 minutes. We will walk 10 minutes, trot 10 minutes, and repeat. I have never in my life trotted for 30 minutes in a row. Then when my horse tells me (by HR and recovery) that she is in shape, I will increase my distance. After she is comfortable with the new distance, I will try to improve my time doing it. But every single week, they always get the 3 days in a row off, and every other weekend, they do easy rides on Friday and Monday. Now that I have 2 horses to condition, I want to start riding one and ponying the other. But Andi is not in "conditioning" he is still in training on the trail. Once he is reliable, I plan on taking turns with who gets ridden and who gets ponied, but I want them both to go out. Because the problem with my schedule is that my house has gone to pot! I do not have time to keep it neat and clean. But we all have our priorities. Of course, all this is if everything is going well and there are no training issues on the trail. I do not "compete" in endurance. To me, it is a way to get out and see more trails with other people like me. There are a lot of people doing endurance that do not "compete". Susan in NV http://desertduty.blogspot.com/ Riding for Breast Cancer Awareness Nevermore Ranch http://users.oasisol.com/nevermore/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
