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A fellow troglodyte in front of the old Independence, Mo. Jackson Co. Courthouse(year 1836), and typical KCMO weather to boot.

Bill Pressey comment last post--helpful! Read closely first two paragraphs! From my class room exercise physiology days, they think--in terms of measurables!

My exercise physiology class at MU Columbia was in 1973, and so I'll be a bit rusty with correct terminology, and, hopefully as accurate as possible given passage of time and more recent developments. In terms of exercise science I am thinking I may as well have studied it in the 1920s as 1970s. Although, I must say, reading the equine exercise physiology text book, in the textbook of the 1970s was already into most of that.

With that, I'm taking it that Pressey states an interesting idea, something I have yet to consider! After transitioning to aerobic metabolism at some point out of the gate--a minute or less depending on fitness--the horse hits an aerobic cruising speed (am thinking its a combo of aerobic and anaerobic most of the way) but then, at the speed up, the horse has to transition back to mostly anaerobic. the longer the horse can stave off this transition, the stronger down the stretch. Unknown if that is exactly Pressey's point, but, thinking so. He then attempts to measure this sort of fitness with the heart rate. Give this a hmmmm... for now for deeper consideration!!! Have yet to think of it this way, but very interesting concept!!!

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I'm blogging on the fly. What is this about, this performance? What comes to mind.

Winning--difference between winning and losing. Causation!

Speed as the #1.

How to get speed in the horse?

How to get speed over distance?

Leave it there for today.

Training:
4/23 light riderless pasture romp on a still sore hoof. Got the short full speed burst we needed.
4/24: get there to get on and horse limping more severely than day before. Further digging into the sole reveals larger abscess than supposed--it runs all along outside of hoof toe to quarter. Of course it's raining around here. New vet supplies arrived. Will see. As it's lingering, experience is that I'll have to get very aggressive to get rid of it.