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Have given thought on whether to continue with this blog that originally was conceived to document our training.  Nothing here to train at the moment although am holding out hope to get a couple thousand by the fall sales for a new horse.  Had been discussing the subject of performance with the idea of doing what was done on this blog in 2007 in taking the horse through a series of breezes presumably to race day and see how it all works out.  Absent this a discussion of performance would still be interesting possibly, although theoretical.

One way to give this a shot would be to discuss training the young horse from the get go with the idea of eventually getting it there.  What is ideal in terms of what to do with the yearling sales grad?  Might give this a whirl. Still considering.

Back at the ranch there's my personal goal of getting six consecutive 7 min. miles before the end of the year.  This has taken a set back as I have once again discovered first hand that unless injury is avoided, u'll never get there.  I suffered a too fast too soon inj. in mid April and will take to June 1 now to get back to where I was, in mid April.  Am taking a tact of small incremental daily increases in volume and speed.  Maybe start posting at end of each post the day's results and see how it goes.  7 min/mile for 6 miles is 8.6 mph for 6 miles which is moving pretty good.  6.5 min. miles starts to get to competitive distance running speed, for perspective.

Today's (comeback) workout:

50 min.  2.87 miles. 3.4 mph average. 3.6 mph top speed. HR 92 av.  No pain at point of inj. which is a ligament attachment on inner thigh. Quite a way from 8.6 mph.