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| Besides being in a perfect world and being able to ride every day, how many days a week do you ride your horse that you run on ? |
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Location: Somewhere around here | I try to ride 3-5 days during the week, trail riding on at least one of those days. |
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I just read the headlines
Posts: 4483
| When I was going hard, I rode 4 days a week. I gave my horse Monday off if we didn't run Sunday. Friday and Saturday were rodeo runs. The first ride after a weekend was an easy hour long ride with a lot of walking, not ambling. Wednesday was the hardest day, working on skills and maybe a walk or lope through the pattern. All my rides were at least an hour, but I let the horse tell me how hard we rode. They all included some trotting, loping and a lot of swinging walks. Rarely did I ride in an arena. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | When I have done my best I am riding a minimum of 4-5 days a week. Currently my filly is at the trainer and we are about to bring my gelding up for the summer to see how he has recovered so I haven't had much chance to ride BUT I am walking every day and doing ab exercises. I go out and spend 10-20 minutes with our foal every day. I figure when I get back on more consistently (I was riding my filly most days for a couple weeks before she went to the trainer) I will at least be in a little better shape to do it. I have lost a good bit of weight too from being pregnant. I am content with making slow but steady progress towards my goals next year of taking my filly to some stuff. I think she is going to be pretty quick so I have to work hard. Physical stuff has never come super easy to me but I am determined. I have lost 25% of my total weight loss goal already so just need to keep at it. |
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 Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | I typically compete on Saturdays and/or Sundays, so my horses almost always get Monday off. Tuesday-Friday, I try to ride or exercise each horse at least twice. This sometimes becomes challenging since I'm a high school track coach with at least one meet every week and I don't usually get home until after 5 p.m. Last night I was outside doing horse chores and riding from 5:15 to 5:40 and again from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
For example, last weekend, I ran Cliff & Streak on Sunday, but exercised Chance & Joker Sunday. Everyone got Monday off. I worked Cliff and Chance hard on Tuesday, and Joker also got a moderate workout. Streak got the day off because I was frustrated and didn't want to get on him in a bad mood. He'll for sure get worked tonight, and I'm hoping to get the other three worked as well. If I can swing it timewise, I'll take them all for a fairly short trip around the pasture on Thursday, and everyone will get Friday off because I'll be at a track meet from 1 to 10 p.m.
I plan to run Chance, Cliff and Streak on Saturday, and don't know about Sunday but might run Cliff & Streak then too. Joker is not running this weekend but I'm trying to condition him a little more so he can handle an outdoor, bigger pen run a week from Sunday. |
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 Own It and Move On
Location: The edge of no where | I generally ride 5-6 days a week. Somedays we might just rope the sled and cruise around...other days I'll ride harder. But mine gets some form of exercise pretty much 6 days a week. Turned out during the day and stalled at night. |
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Posts: 788
| For me it depends on the horse mostly. I dont currently really have any all out finished horses. When I did in the past, I would excercise them 2-3 days during the week. Sometimes, it was just leading them with another horse and then run them on the weekends. For my horses that are 3/4 finished and just need slight tune ups, they get rode the same 2-3 but Im always riding them and work the barrels usually once a week, usually at a walk or trot unless they really need some work, then they get ran on most weekends. My colts get rode 4-5 days a week at least. |
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 Cool As Ice
Posts: 4632
Location: Black Hills, South Dakota | I usually ride 5-6 times a week for at least an hour each night :) |
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 Good Grief!
Posts: 6343
Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Everyday....i may give them the day after a race off...m |
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Posts: 9992
Location: Kansas | Anywhere from 2 days, to 5 days a week. Just depends on how many labs, assignments I have to finish. Plus my boyfriend works 10pm to 6am, so I try to spend as much time with him as possible...even though he loves to come ride with me lol.
procrastination is strong with me LOL
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 Total Germophobe
Posts: 6443
Location: Montana | With me it just really depends. Lately I've been so busy I'm lucky if I get to ride once a week, but normally I try to ride around 3-4 times a week (including a race) in the summer. |
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Posts: 2128
| I try my hardest to ride at least 3 days during the week if entered on the weekends. I am focusing more now on physical conditioning a not as much on the pattern. I plan to lope around the pattern a time or two on my last workout of the week. |
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