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Getting through the Vet Checks at Tevis

One of the most useful pieces of advice I was given prior to riding the Tevis this year was to make sure I got in line to vet as soon as I got my horse’s pulse timed in. This is good advice.  If you stop for even a minute after getting your pulse and in-time [...]

Moving average versus total time and figuring out how to ride the Tevis!

My actual “moving” average speed on the Tevis was 6.07 mph.  During the 24 hours of the Tevis Cup there were 2 one-hour holds (vet checks), and eight vet checks total.  The majority of the vet checks do not have hold times so you have to ride so that you have time to allow for [...]

Tevis Trail Videos

Here is my rider query report from the Tevis Webcast.  I was rider #49 – it was a lucky number I think!  We kept a fairly steady pace throughout the ride and lucked out getting through the vet checks without ever having to wait. It may look like we spent more time getting short distances [...]

Tevis Cup 2010 Photos & Video

I took a lot of photos and video and will get them posted soon. The videos are already up on YouTube. Bo and I finished 32nd at 3:33 a.m. and had a really terrific ride at the 2010 Tevis Cup ride! I’ll write more about it in another post. For now, enjoy these photos taken [...]

Tevis Twitter News!

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Tour de Washooo Ride, July 3, 2010

The ride went really well yesterday. I decided to take Bo. He’d been feeling a bit left out when I ended up riding Chief all 4 days of the Strawberry Fields ride. Granted, Bo did get to mark trail and has been getting in a lot of additional riding  — he is the kind of [...]

Strawberry Fields Forever 2010 Ride Photos!

It took me awhile to get these posted, because I had to go through a lot of photos. I have narrowed them down to only 265 in the album.  There are a lot of photos here – from all four days of the ride plus trail marking and trail work. Rider photos were taken by [...]

Back online after Strawberry Fields!

I’ve been offline for awhile – no internet or cell service at Strawberry Fields in Utah.  I turned everything electronic off, except for the GPS – what a great time! I would have gotten home sooner but decided to stay in Winnemucca last night after getting a blow-out on the right hind trailer tire (right [...]

Owyhee Fandango: Only 100 Miles to Go – Come Along for a Virtual Ride with Me – continued…

Does it look like we are having fun?   Steve Bradley always gets the best photos!  Yesterday I started writing about the 100 at Owyhee Fandango but only got as far as getting ready for the ride…. So now let’s start at the beginning of the ride itself!  I gave myself an hour to get ready, [...]

Owyhee Fandango: Only 100 Miles to Go – Come Along for a Virtual Ride with Me!

This is just the pre-ride prep stuff…I’ll get to the actual “ride” writeup tomorrow!  Till then, I did at least get an album up with more than 100 photos so you can see what the trail was like – beautiful ride! After riding Chief in the 50 on Friday I had to really fight the [...]

Owyhee Fandango – The First 50 Miles!

I had originally planned to go up to Idaho and ride the 100 on Bo.  Then I decided, what the heck – might as well throw Chief in the trailer and ride him one day as well. So that’s what I did – planned on riding the Friday 50 on Chief, and then take a [...]

Hell’s Kitchen Canyon 2010 – Ride Report & Photos

This was my third time going to Hell’s Kitchen Canyon and Bruce Burnham (RM) thought it was either the 30th or 31st year for the ride.  They do a great job with this one day 25/50 mile ride in Gunnison, Utah.  Dave Rabe and I both decided to stay around after Mt. Carmel and help [...]

From endurance ride to endurance ride

I haven’t had much time to post lately, and the internet has been pretty slow and consistently iffy. When it has worked I’ve used it to get the Mt. Carmel XP ride results posted and other work done that I needed to.  I still have a ton more to do and know that there is [...]

Color Country 2010

We had a good time at the Color Country ride this past weekend.  I took both horses and rode Chief two days and Bo one day.  The weather for the first two days of the ride was really spectacular.  It was pretty good on the third day too but the wind came up late in [...]

Five and twenty five (thousand)

Home from being gone for three weeks.  In that time I got to ride five days of endurance rides on my horses, and Bo got five stitches in his head. I’ve got a lot to blog about, but just haven’t had the time.  It’s kind of funny – as I thought I would have all [...]