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Should I ride today?
| March 2, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
Ummm…I’m not sure. Let me check my weather forecast. That was…helpful…. Let me look outside. Sunny? Cloudy? Rainy? Windy? All the above and changing every 15 minutes. And that’s why at 9am I’m sitting in my recliner with a cup of coffee frozen with indecision of whether I’m riding today? Doing housework? Will it […] more
Endurance Food
| March 1, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
I love food. Adore it. Thus, it is one of life’s cruelest jokes that you put me in at a ride and food becomes an impossibility. In some ways, my journey as an endurance rider has NOT been a journey of how to ride a horse for 50 or a 100 miles – it’s been […] more
The 100 miler bond – it’s real
| March 1, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
Something magical happens when you finish a 100 milers on a horse. Farley looking good coming out of the winter. We’ve talked about some complicated subjects, and I’ve been posting some long-winded posts that may or may not be interesting to any/some of my readers. And yes, there’s some more complicated and long winded posts […] more
IRL – Feb 2014
| March 1, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
These “In Real Life” posts are designed to show how a conditioning program is being applied “real life”. It’s one thing to talk about the ideal program – it’s quite another thing to see how an actual person is applying it real life horse. Maybe you are a new rider that is trying to find […] more
Recovery Thoughts III
| February 28, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
It’s been six days. Recovery. It does the body good. Six days post race and I’ve tried to run once. It was an absolute, miserable failure. Muscles? Calves are still the tiniest bit tight but it’s so minor I really didn’t think it was a problem. Neuro/central fatigue component? I can’t even begin to describe […] more
Recovery Thoughts II
| February 26, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
I summarized yesterday’s post with the statement: The major consequences of stress/stimulus applied during a run is muscle damage, fuel depletion, and psychological/emotional stress. In order to fully utilize them again, you need to repair or refill them to capacity. Tomorrow we are going to add a caveat to that statement: “….You need to repair […] more
Thoughts on Recovery I
| February 25, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
It’s fitting that recovery is on my mind, since now 2 days after a race is usually when I’m convinced I will never ever walk normally again. Doesn’t it seem like a crap shoot what’s sore after a work out? I mean, I know that theoretically the cycle is that muscles are stressed and then […] more
