Coming Out Party

That was my reaction watching Y in his riderless gallop this morning. The little horse has passed his weakened stage, has evolved into a sort of 2/3 full grown horse, and is now doing legitimate galloping with the big boys so that you could say the last couple of days have been the coming out party for the new trainee. So, without adieu:
Thurs. 11/17 Rest
Frid. 11/18 4 x 2f riderless spurts at what passes for now for speed (about a 2m clip). working on fast twitch muscles has begun as i percieve the soft tissues--tendons, ligaments--and the splint bone have caught up with the work in their structural sense.
Sat: Rest. That was a nice work friday.
Sun. 11/19: Sometimes when ur around animals you sense to back off a bit. unknown how to this feeling-sensation comes about exactly, but this date seemed a perfect "go with the flow" day, and i knew in advance for some odd reason the flow would be slow. And thus, it was deliberately planned to increase volume this date to 15 min slow riderless gallop in 3f bursts with 1 min rest between heats in alternating instructions. the horses cooperated perfectly with a slow pace and we got in the whole 15m with Y now completely initiated into running around in circles in an appropriate position vis a vis his elders, which also explains all the bite marks on his rump.
Mon: 11/20/06--a few fast spurts planned, but, once again the best laid plans go completely awry since the herding to the paddock evolved into a 10 minute pasture romp. By the time I finally got them in the paddock we did (after warm up) 4x3f moderately paced with one single burst of speed for about 50 yards. there had been several fast bursts in the pasture also, and this is what will pass this day for a fast twitch muscle work.
Note: no saddle work since Wed. the rider has gotten too fat. dieting news coming, i feel sure.