tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616458832392638982024-03-05T04:14:02.461-08:00A horse named "MONK"MONK is 10 year old CMK Arabian who competed in the World Equestrian Games in 2010. "Follow us in 2012"...
MONK currently holds the North American record for the fastest time in the 100 mile event.. 6:53Hrs.Chris Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10779773198010608298noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761645883239263898.post-1269709418973394852017-05-12T06:59:00.001-07:002017-05-12T06:59:26.683-07:00MONK's FaceBook PageHave not posted here in awhile, all of the new posts have been to Monks Face Book page.<div>
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Please visit FEI Redhorse on FB if interested in our adventures. This blog has served us well, it's just easier to do FB.</div>
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FEI Redhorse Facebook page has kinda taken the place of FeiRedhorse@blogspot.com, which is still around, it was started at the beginning of our quest to make the WEG 2010 team, blog was started in 2008, as just a place to keep track of ride photos, it has served us well with many thousands of MONK fans, which seemed to peak just before the WEG in 2010. </div>
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MONK had a major suspensory injury in 2012, trying out for a WEC competition, this was right after our ride at the Presidents Cup in Abu Dhabi.</div>
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He returned to competition after a two year rehab. </div>
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MONK just turned 15 this year and has done well since his return to competition. He seems to be as strong or stronger then ever. Couple of highlights over the last couple of years, a win at VC100, a 8th and 5th place at Tevis, a win at 20MT FEI 75, 2nd and BC at Cache Creek, 3rd at AERC champ ride with a junior rider.</div>
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The 20MT ride was just to re qualify for FEI in case we decide to try for the 2018 WEG in NC.</div>
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But our main goal for 2017 will be the Tevis Cup, and keeping that goal in mind the wellbeing and soundness of MONK is paramount, so we keep a tight rein on how we ride unimportant rides😉</div>
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Our next ride is Mt Adams on May 20th, Anya Lieberman, a junior from Canada will be riding MONK in the 2star FEI ride, she will ride at weight and should be able to obtain her FEI Elite rider status with this ride. Again, this ride is important for our WEG goals and Tevis fitness goals.</div>
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Chris Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10779773198010608298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761645883239263898.post-61692750654129780922015-07-24T20:24:00.000-07:002015-08-28T13:48:12.051-07:00Stem CellBeen a long time since writing anything down. long story short, and I may of covered some of, this in previous posts, but sorry to say I don't go back and read them.<br />
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So here goes: Monk tore a left front suspensory back in 2012 at the Texas trials for a WEG in England. They had a 1/4 mile of boggy trail that you had to use 10 times, and we are guessing that a rear end slip was the cause of the injury, but who knows. He was lame and was pulled, thinking it was a right hind.<br />
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A few days after the trials I took Monk to UC Davis in Ca. He was not lame, they pocked and prodded and even did a acupuncture session. We did a ultrasound as a part of the examination and found a tear mid suspensory on left front. <br />
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PRP, platelet rich plasma injections<br />
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Plus lots of walking, and that is done from day ONE, 30 min a day, with gradual increase.,<br />
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Part of the problem with the equine lower leg is that there is not much circulation. More circulation means faster healing. Besides the walking you can use laser and ultrasound. I bought both and<br />
treated MONK at least once a day and sometimes twice.<br />
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We hand walked for the first few weeks and then switched to the quad.. I have a 1/10 mile track around the backyard, so round and round we went.<br />
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Monk went back to UC Davis for regular visits, for treatments and progress reports on the healing process.<br />
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As we walked and walked I started thinking about the large panel driving walkers. I decided I would make my own, but instead of using corral panels I would use a light weight electrified panels to confine. I started out with a small trailer, put some leveling feet on it, bought and tore down a treadmill and used the motor and controller. After a month or so I had a working model, I only enclosed one of the six panels and started walking Monk it daily. I set my iPhone up on the deck and aimed at the RDR (round d round) and watched him walk on the ipad, while I sat in my easy chair, RDR he went.<br />
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Here are some pictures of our last trip to UC Davis. My granddaughters got to go with, the older one, Marin was the designated photographer so no pictures of her. Macy is the groom for today's adventure.<br />
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So, MONK has been busy getting all healed up. He works multiple hours in the RDR and gets lightly ridden a couple of times a week. My plan is for him to spend another 30 days in the RDR and then back to Davis for a ALL CLEAR check and then gradually back to some real conditioning. We are still looking forward to the WEG trails if MONK is up for it, but we won't know about that for some time.<br />
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I have to say, that this adventure with MONK, both the good and the bad have been a great adventure. What really came to mind was that when different things in your life cause you to choose to take one path or another it you usually do not notice or remember why that decision was made. With the MONK adventures it always seems to be a very distinct. This injury and the rehab process has brought me on another adventure with a new company we formed named 360 Equine LLC,<br />
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I will start another blog for 360 Equine LLC with lots of pictures of the newest models. This all started because of MONK's injury. Website will be www.360Equine.com, email is 360Equine@gmail.com, we also have a toll free number <a href="tel:888-858-4174" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors="true">888-858-4174</a> or text to <a href="tel:530-613-5324" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors="true">530-613-5324</a><br />
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The 360 Equine equine exercisers will be trailer or ground mounted, and size will range from 45' and up. Custom builds will be possible. We have our own CNC Plasma so we can do custom ranch Logo's and paint schemes. Controls and programs will be state of the art and custom programs will be available. We are currently playing with controlling the unit from your Ipad or Android while watching live video. We will have live video available soon of working horses.<br />
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Prices will start at $7995.00 excluding shipping and tax.<br />
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Chris Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10779773198010608298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761645883239263898.post-7217944072335621212012-04-07T19:53:00.000-07:002012-04-07T19:53:40.440-07:00"The Perfect ride" Almost<div style="text-align: center;">
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Seem like as soon as I had driven my 500 miles and we were full of fuel we found a super place to park for the night. First night was in a real nice rest stop, had some green grass, very private and a few other people in motor home's parked. The second night was at a fuel stop in New Mexico, we pulled way to the back of the dirt lot and parked. I did not realize that we were at probably 7000 feet and that it get pretty cold at that elevation. MONK did have a blanket on, but not his warm one. When I got up in the morning I noticed that MONK was very much awake and looking at something near the fence line. At first I could not see anything, I went to get his lead rope that I had looped through one of the loops on the side of the trailer, it was frozen solid. I did manage to get to out and went to get MONK off of the high tie, he was still looking at something. I looked in that direction and observed a person laying in the weeds not more then 50 yards from us. I could see movement so knew they were not dead, I went and did a walk and some circles with MONK and observed that the person was a female with a dog. She sat up and and started moving around. </div>
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No better way to appreciate YOUR life then to travel across the USA and see how other less fortunate people are living. Actually I love to drive, gives a person lots of time to think. We arrived at Ridecamp late Sunday, after some time finally found a place to park for the night until I found someone that knew what was going on. I was the second rig to show up, the other person was from Utah. The mileage to the camp was almost 2000 miles on the money. Next day we got to do a little exploring but not on the race trail.. Basically had maybe 100 acres that we was a hay field that we could ride around. I found a nice stretch of maybe 1/4 mile where we could do some work. MONK was feeling great and loved the short works, I think that longest we did was 8 miles.</div>
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While exploring a out buildings near us I found a outdoor freezer that was working. Lindsay and I went to Wal Mart which was right across the street and purchased some cases of cheap water and put the whole case into the freezer to freeze so we could through the whole case into our water buckets later in the day to cool the water.<br />
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We got to crew right from the trailer, which was a treat, did not have to haul everything to any out vet checks. MONK gets a variety of food so he can have his choice during the ride. After he makes his choice he is hand fed most of the time.<br />
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Preparation for this ride had begun months ago, the Abu Dhabi 160km ride was ridden with this WEC event in mind. We decided that the Presidents Cup would be a perfect tune up for MONK, it was a very easy ride for him with a pretty easy pace. Strategy for a ride like this is kinda hard to put on paper, our goal was to at least top ten and top five if we could do it easily. We did not want to run up front and get MONK into a competitive mode. The race started at 7am, which is pretty unusual in itself but more to my liking. MONK and Lindsay started out in the top ten. Lindsay found a nice little "hole" for MONK and she just kept him there for as long as she could. I raced out to the first water check to help cool MONK as she came through. On the second or third loop Lindsay and MONK left the water stop in first place, not for long as the other riders who had made a wrong turn gave chase. This mistake put her only 2 minutes behind the leaders in 4th place. MONK was having amazing recoveries, so good I did not believe them and kept him back for an extra minute. He came in off of loop 2, HR was high 60's, unbelievable, had to do a double take and a double check. As we had "NO" crew a couple of extra crew people gave us a hand cooling MONK. Vet scores and trot out were good, except for gut sounds which we always seem to struggle with.</div>
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This is Macy, who just turned 5 years old. Her and her sister Marin are just a little "horse crazy"......Chris Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10779773198010608298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761645883239263898.post-32380778602545505502012-02-20T14:29:00.000-08:002012-03-06T20:41:03.140-08:00Presidents Cup, Abu Dhabi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nancy and I got an unexpected tour of Abu Dhabi when we were approached by someone asking if we needed a cab. Upon arrival at our final destination, the Mafrac Hotel, we were advised that the ride to the hotel should of only been 50 Dirham, not 150 Dirham.. We arrived at about 1am, were able to grab a few hours sleep and obtain the supplied rental car and meet Doug and the horses at the quarantine barn, which was about 30 minutes away, just as they pulled up at about 1pm..</div>
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Fencing surrounds the quarantine barn. You have to sign in and sign out, tempatures were taken both morning and night.<br />
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Doctor Andrew getting the required blood samples from MONK. Dr. Andrew is from Australia and has been working with endurance horses in Abu Dhabi for over 10 years.<br />
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These are two large outside paddocks is where we try and leave the horse during the day time. The temperatures during the night get pretty chilly so horses come in and blanketed.<br />
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Dr. Andrew, Doug and Christoph Shork talking about what a great haircut they gave Nash.....not.<br />
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Nancy making sure MONK eats all his dinner.<br />
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These are the IN and OUT gates. Gate 1 is the OUT gate and has a timer there and lets riders go on the exact second.<br />
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Here is the crewing area for the different teams. You can see some of the local horses in the first area. Most do not have any corrals of any type.<br />
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This is the crewing area. In other pictures you will see hundreds of water buckets and as many people. The lanes that you see in front of you are where the electronic timing starts. Each horse is fitted with a small transmitter that goes around their neck and must remain during the competition. As you cool your horse to get the heart rate down you start walking your horse into the gate, just on the other side of the little buildings is a wire that goes overhead, that wire will send a signal that starts the count for your recovery time. This is where the horse MUST maintain forward motion until they get to vet lanes..... Look for the SLOW walk video....<br />
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Crew area on the way far side, this is the VET area, the Heart machine, which I am not sure I got a picture of or not are located inside the box like on lane 4. The slow walk is done to this area, most of the horses were slow walked into the lane, where they do a 180 and stop in front of the Heart machine. That little extra walk give them an extra 10 to 20 seconds for the HR to come down. <br />
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<i>So, when you see those two minute recoveries there is lots more to it then the two minutes. Basically as soon as they cross the magic line at the "IN" timer you generally are still in the saddle until just before the water buckets. People who live here have lots and lots of help cooling the horse. The rider jumps off the horse while it is still moving, crew removes the saddle in under 5 seconds, water is started on the horse actually even before the rider gets off, the rider is usually soaked as is the saddle. The horse, depending on his recoveries, will be cooled at the walk all the way to the other magic line where the slow walk will start, BUT, the recovery time has already been recorded as soon as they go under the wire. From this point, as long as the horse has forward movement, you are good. The only video I got of the slow walk is of MONK with Nancy leading. He has not been trained to do this but did it pretty well. </i><br />
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<i>I watched as the first two horses came in, almost on top of each other. By the time the first horse hit the pulse gate at the trot out lane and they put the Heart Rate machine on the horse he was 72. Criteria is 64, you have I think 15 seconds of the Heart Rate machine on the horse for it to drop to the 64. The horse dropped to the required 64. It seems like a lot longer then the 15 seconds but I really was not counting.. I also do not know if the machine is automatic or if they can leave it on longer then required. Most of the horses that I saw during the race were presented with about a 64 and dropped quickly into the high 50's..</i><br />
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Doug and Lindsay posing with the American Flag, inside the Quarantine area, going out for the first time on a special trail just for the USA horses.<br />
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Lindsay almost finished with MONK's trim job, batteries went dead and needed to be recharged.. Did not have the voltage adapter with us..<br />
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Christoph Shork, Doug's groom walking with the horses.<br />
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Nancy practicing with MONK on his trot outs...<br />
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This view is looking back towards the IN and OUT gates, with all of the cooling buckets.<br />
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Nash in the back ground, Susie doing the last minute polish.<br />
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Doug and Nash on the right...<br />
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Hair Cut complete, this is the Vet in. USA was the first team to Vet. Emmett Ross on the right.<br />
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My saddle wagon, all the way from Penn Valley, or as we call it PennTuckey........... That good looking lady walking towards the wagon is Nicole who was with Doug and and amazing crew person.<br />
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Vintage grad Graham, horse Monk among finishers in Abu Dhabi</h3>
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Lindsay Graham rode 10-year-old gelding Monk to a 32nd-place finish in the annual 100-mile President’s Cup Endurance Ride on Saturday in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.<br />
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Graham, a veterinarian at Napa Valley Veterinary Hospital, said only 46 of 140 starters finished the prestigious event.<br />
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The 2000 Vintage High School graduate went into the six-loop race planning to ride at a competitive but comfortable pace.<br />
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She wanted to make sure Monk, owned by Chris Martin of Penn Valley, would come home healthy and be ready for their bigger goal — a successful tryout next month in Texas for the biannual World Endurance Championship that will be held in England in August.<br />
Graham and Monk finished in 8 hours, 53 minutes.<br />
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The only other American invited to the race, four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Doug Swingley of Montana, finished 38th.<br />
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“The race went really well,” Graham said. “The day went as I had hoped for, to start off in the back and keep a steady but slowly increasing pace throughout the day...<br />
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<br /></div>Chris Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10779773198010608298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761645883239263898.post-56738119882087361452012-01-30T18:42:00.000-08:002012-01-30T19:07:54.234-08:00Abu Dhabi hair cut...<div style="text-align: center;">
MONK getting cleaned up a little bit before Lindsay arrives to give him a hair cut..</div>
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Sounds like they do not allow blankets on the horses for his 20 hour flight to the UAE. We decided to do a very minimum clip to help keep him warm and also save a little time while we are there. So what you see will be very different then how he will race.. He will just have to suffer on the way home..</div>
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Lindsay and MONK do a test run to check tack, see video in another post.</div>
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<span class="hP" style="padding-right: 10px;">We received the invitation last Friday which was the 6th.. We had until Sunday to decide if we would accept or not. The invitation said that horses would ship out of New York. We did a accept with the condition that MONK would be shipped out of the West Coast. Today we got a email giving a possible itinerary shipping out of LA on the 2nd and arriving in the UAE on the 4th, with stops and short layovers in Chicago, KY....</span></div>
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The invitation is for the topped ranked riders on the ranking list who have not been invited before. The invitation is for two horse and rider teams, plus one groom per horse.</div>
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Luckily MONK is in excellent condition. We are headed for Reno this weekend where he will have 3 days of sand work. Just some easy work along the shores of Lake Washoe...</div>
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Needless to say we are very excited at this opportunity and will keep holding our breath until we are on the plane.</div>
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See you in Abu Dhabi........ </div>Chris Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10779773198010608298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761645883239263898.post-63909631145754317292011-12-22T17:18:00.000-08:002011-12-22T17:18:21.774-08:00New Brakes or NO Brakes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">When you go fast and look good you must have the very best equipment and that includes brakes... So, as a early Christmas gift to MONK I decided to try out his new fancy 3 ring Mylar bit, this is equivalent to the fancy brakes that you put on your Porsche, cross drilled rotors, carbon fiber pads etc... Well it took some doing to get it on a headstall and adjusted but we did.</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tVlaNmURY8E/TvPQ6q0Km2I/AAAAAAAAHZk/Ak-qx25gpdo/s1600/Cross+Drilled+Brembo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tVlaNmURY8E/TvPQ6q0Km2I/AAAAAAAAHZk/Ak-qx25gpdo/s400/Cross+Drilled+Brembo.jpg" width="298" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To tell the truth I used this new setup on MONK's last outing to the farmland where we just cantered for 20 miles.. That is not really a good test as he really does not get to run. When he is a BAD horse is when you are doing repeats and you let him run some, he thinks he should just be able to go as fast as he wants. If you are strong enough to keep him from doing it, good for you, if not, you are going for a fast ride.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today we started doing some slow repeats. I let him run a couple of times, it was almost like you were riding with nothing. I took him down the big hill where I do sometimes let him run at top speed, well he took off like a rocket and it was not easy to get him back. I got him slowed to a mild roar and headed back to the barn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I then tried the bit that I use on all the other horses, just something simple and we went back out.. Boy what a difference...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Should of put a picture of the bit that I usually use on him, but it is just a jointed Kimberwick. He worked much better in the Kimberwick that was solid and not jointed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Someone posted this on facebook. For some reason it really hit home with me, I think mainly because I am getting older and time seems to be going by so fast. I feel very blessed to have things in my life that keep me young, my wife, my kids and grand kids and of coarse my horses, especially MONK. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">MONK is back in full tilt training which is hard for me, but very rewarding.... We did the farmland ride again a couple days ago and it was cold and windy, the water foul flying up out of the ditches made for a white knuckle ride, and my knees started aching pretty bad, but I rode well, which always makes me smile, I seem to have a better seat then I did a few years ago. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I actually did a whole 50 mile ride a couple of weeks ago at Desert Gold. I rode my horse Psuntana, I call him my Mini MONK. He cantered the whole first 30 miles and most of the second half. This is my first 50 in maybe 3 years or so.</span></div>
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<br />Chris Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10779773198010608298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761645883239263898.post-38670331829821737282011-12-11T10:19:00.001-08:002011-12-12T10:34:58.215-08:00Farm Land again<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Have a feeling that I will be doing this stretch for quite some time. Cantering for hours at a time uses different parts of your body so will try some "Monkey Butt" next time. I have just been riding along side the road, which works well, very good footing, plus I have his Easy Care Gloves on, so the few feet that we are on asphalt I don't have to worry. MONK enjoys these jaunts very much. I was reading about a comment someone made about "how do you know he likes it" when someone said that the horses in Dubai liked racing the cars... I guess you would have to of been there and done that, but a horse like MONK would enjoy that very much. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I usually will do the first couple mile warm up at about 12mph. After he was warmed up a little we end up going a little faster, I really do not pay attention too much to the speed, I just want him to be very comfortable at what ever speed he is going. I did start to chuckle, actually laugh out loud when I looked at the Garmin as we were doing 14 mph and his heart rate was 114. I kept an eye on the Garmin for another 10 minutes or so to make sure everything was working properly and it appeared to be. Towards the end of our ride, and going a little faster I did see a HR of 138.</span><br />
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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">4:14.4</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:3:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">4:14</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:3:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:3:t3" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">14.1</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:3:t4" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">14.2</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:3:t5" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">15.0</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:3:t6" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">114</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:3:t7" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">125</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:3:t8" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">22</td></tr>
<tr class="rich-table-row splitsRow" style="height: 28px;"><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:4:j_id199" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">5</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:4:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">4:14.0</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:4:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">4:14</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:4:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:4:t3" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">14.2</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:4:t4" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">14.2</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:4:t5" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">15.9</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:4:t6" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">118</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:4:t7" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">127</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:4:t8" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">25</td></tr>
<tr class="rich-table-row splitsRowAlternate" style="background-color: whitesmoke; height: 28px;"><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:5:j_id199" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">6</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:5:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">4:06.8</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:5:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">4:07</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:5:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:5:t3" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">14.6</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:5:t4" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">14.6</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:5:t5" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">15.7</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:5:t6" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">126</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:5:t7" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">135</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:5:t8" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">25</td></tr>
<tr class="rich-table-row splitsRow splitsRowHighlight" style="background-color: #e3f4ff; height: 28px;"><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:6:j_id199" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">7</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:6:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">4:25.7</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:6:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">4:26</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:6:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:6:t3" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">13.5</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:6:t4" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">13.5</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:6:t5" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">15.6</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:6:t6" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">124</td><td class="rich-table-cell" id="j_id197:normalTable:6:t7" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When I got back home and downloaded the ride information I went back to May of 2010 when Lindsay and I were training for the WEG selection in Brothers Oregon and looked at some long and fast cantering that we did. His HR for those rides was 140 to 160 range, and we did not check recoveries. We actually only did a few of these long and fast works and MONK was without a doubt one of the best at the Oregon Selection. He cantered for 80 miles in about 6.30 hours. The speed that was asked for on the different loops were 12, 13 and 14 mph. MONK completed that task with ease.</span><br />
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MONK was intently looking at something, never really did figure out what, probably all the water foul in the all the rice fields. He was a good boy today, he just picked up the canter right away, and kept it at a nice and easy pace. He seemed very happy and he kept going a little faster but did not fuss when I asked to go a little slower. We will pick the pace up a little later after he has been back to work for a little while.</div>
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This is post ride, he looked like he had done nothing but just enough for me and for where he is at right now. He probably could of gone a lot faster, but we are going to ease into the speed, no hurry. This was a nice place to ride, good nice soft footing, no cars, and easily do over 20 miles without tons of duplication. Good place to safely go fast when we get to that phase.Chris Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10779773198010608298noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761645883239263898.post-2351958845618065712011-12-07T11:13:00.001-08:002011-12-07T11:13:48.784-08:00Chris Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10779773198010608298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761645883239263898.post-44124541677612246572011-12-03T16:26:00.001-08:002011-12-03T16:31:23.091-08:00Repeats and HillsNice easy 6 miles, repeats and hills. First part of this video will make you dizzy, you can fast forward using the controls... You can stop the video and change the angle your looking at or just grab the screen and go exploring. <iframe height="350px" scrolling="no" src="http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/render_route_video?route_key=870132294809449197&site=mapmyrun.com" width="100%">&lt;p&gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/59872052"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;iMapMyRUN: Dec 3, 2011 1:34 PM&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; and more runs in Penn Valley, CA on MapMyRUN. &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://www.mapmyrun.com"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Find run&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;
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How soon we forget.. MONK is so smooth to ride, his gates are perfect. His 18 mph trot is super nice, he is such a powerful horse. Today I rode him for the first time in a couple of months. I rode him first in the pasture next door, it is about 500 yards with a nice uphill, good footing, but that was kind of a mistake. Years ago this is where we would go and canter for 5 miles at a time, and where I am currently riding two other horses. We just walked at first, a couple of times up and down, then a nice easy trot, after about 2 times of that MONK really wanted to go MONK speed. I forget what an ASS he can be when he wants to go fast, he just runs away with you and you better be strong enough to stop him. He will get better after he has been ridden for awhile. So after the little uphills I decided that I would take him down to the lake, which is about 1 mile, with almost 1000 feet of elevation gain. We went almost to the lake but we encounter a MONK eating broken tree branch laying in the road. I thought we had long passed this silly stage, but he saw it and spun as quick as a cutting horse, luckily I stayed in the saddle, because if I fell off he would not hang around to give me a ride home. He just trotted the hill, but very quickly and was pretty pissed I would not let him run....<br />
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I do miss riding him, he is so easy to be around. But sure I will be tired of it soon, I am currently riding two other horses almost daily. It is lots of work to condition MONK. These next few weeks I will be able to get him slowly up to speed and will then be looking for special trails and locations to bring him back to the top of his game. I really think that MONK can be in better condition then his last race season but it will take lots of time and energy. Most of MONK's conditioning will be off the ranch, which will probably mean that one whole day GONE.Chris Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10779773198010608298noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761645883239263898.post-13489930177187317142011-11-22T18:29:00.001-08:002011-11-22T20:30:45.210-08:00Back to work... World 2012?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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MONK has had 60 days off, R & R, no doing nothing, Nada, well not exactly, I did take him for a few walks.... One was over on the south side of the mountain where there are lots of hills and sunshine and quite a view of Lake Englebright, see picture. This is a great place for hill training during the winter, you get lots of sunshine when it's available and some nice local views. You can't do any fast work, but you can do some real steep hills, you can canter a few, but most are so steep you NEED to just walk.<br />
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Should be posting more in the next few months as I bring MONK back into the best shape he has ever been in.<br />
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Rumor has it that a test event will be held somewhere in Texas at the end of March where ALL horse and rider teams will compete for a spot on the USA team for World Endurance Challenge in England.<br />
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I have to say that March is pretty early in the year for some folks who live in snow country. I am lucky that I can train year round and do much of it right from the ranch.<br />
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I have a big decision to make about which way we are headed for 2012, but regardless MONK will be in the best shape EVER.. This horse will only be 10 in 2012 and we will be training for his best performances yet.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This video is of Rachel and Cody about 20 minutes behind Jeremy approaching the Hwy 49 crossing. This was Cody's last Tevis, but you have not heard the last of this young competitor. A 2nd place finish at Tevis is quite an accomplishment for someone who I think in not even 20 years old... I think I saw the light bulb go on, best of luck to Rachel in the future.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwDrWFHApiBvxlvxsE8lLcuME0hOPUv5n3UEIT5kThwtR2WM65vofoM6ldL3amgD3Ah9greG8z7d0Yavy3peA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Chris Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10779773198010608298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761645883239263898.post-63857668960399049602011-09-30T11:26:00.000-07:002011-09-30T11:26:49.674-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #7799bb; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Unlike human marathons, endurance rides generally don’t recognize record times, since each ride has so many variables—terrain, weather, altitude, etc. A query from the first-place finisher in the Patriot’s Day at Lake Almanor 100, held July 30 in Northern California, sent the office on a search of the unofficial record book.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">As best as we can tell, Monk—ridden by Lindsay Graham, DVM—ran the fastest-ever 100 in North America, with a time of 6:53. (Jeremy Reynolds and A Kutt Above crossed the finish line just a minute later.)<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">The previous fastest time in AERC’s searchable history was a 7:44 tie finish by Theatric, ridden by Kathy Brunjes, and Syrocco Reveille, with Meg Sleeper, DVM, aboard at the March 2010 Fun in the Sun 100 in Florida.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">A 7:55 finish was clocked by Spectacular Gold and Valerie Kanavy at the 2010 AERC National Championship 100 in South Carolina. In 2004, Rokket and Karen Kroon finished the 100-mile Arabian Nights FEI in 7:57.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Lindsay and Monk, the 100-mile National Championship winners in 2009, were only trying to make FEI “elite” status at the ride: a finish in under nine hours. But right from the start, Monk, A Kutt Above and No Repeat, ridden by former World Champion Becky Hart, were vying for the win.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Lindsay always pays strict attention to Monk’s pace. “Monk’s welfare is always of the upmost importance to me,” said Lindsay, who has been riding Monk for owner Chris Martin for nearly three years. “As an endurance rider for seven years now, as well as being a veterinarian, I know where my boundaries are and know how to ride the line when needed.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">“I am always riding a guarded pace, never a ‘Monk’ pace,” explained Lindsay. “At the Patriot’s Day 100, we went a Monk pace. We even put it into a whole new gear for the last loop which I was very hesitant to do but Monk kept telling me to just let him do his thing. The last loop, flying at 18.5 mph, I felt a bit out of my comfort zone, but at the same time I had a smile on my face. If Monk could, he would be smiling too.”<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Lindsay uses a Garmin heart rate monitor while competing. At his record-setting ride, Monk ran between 120 and 130 bpm at a 14 mph pace after his first “amped-up” loop. On their final loop, riding at 18.5 mph, Lindsay was pleased to see Monk running at around 140 bpm.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">At the rest stops, Monk typically recovered within five minutes, although the first check didn’t go ideally. “I made the mistake of having water poured on his neck and part of his back first thing in the morning,” admitted Lindsay. “As soon as he got cold, he began shivering, his heart rate spiked, and we had to return to the pulse box, losing six minutes at that hold. I told my crew to let me know what the temp was really like as I came into the holds, as Monk and I come in hot and I get a little jaded sometimes on how cold it really is.”<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Strategy at the holds was instrumental in their win. Lindsay said, “For a majority of the ride, I was riding with Jeremy and Becky, and their horses recovered faster than Monk, so I had to change my strategy and come in a few minutes ahead of them, to give me that buffer.”<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">The ride’s 30-minute holds were at 25 and 87.5 miles, with 50-minute holds at 37.5, 62.5 and 75 miles.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Ride conditions weren’t necessarily conducive to fast times. The course was pretty rocky, with some ups and down, and the temperatures were in the low 90s. “Since Monk has done a lot of training barefoot, he can pick his way through anything at any speed and miss all the rocks and ruts,” said Lindsay.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Not only did Monk finish first, but he was also awarded best condition. “The following morning I took Monk for a walk. Normally in hand he is a slow walker and usually lags behind,” said Lindsay. “That morning, Monk had a nice fast walk right beside me with ears forward and all. He soon drug me over to the water trough and took about 15 gulps of water. He was yanking me all around, eating the bits and pieces of old mash, carrots and anything else he could find.”<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">After pigging out, Monk—as he does after most every ride—used Lindsay as a scratching post. “He always works hard and deserves to be spoiled,” said Lindsay.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Training for the ride is done under the supervision of Monk’s owner, Chris Martin. “I found a nice 20-mile trail with about 2500 feet of elevation gain that Monk could easily canter about 70% percent of,” said Chris. “This was our mainstay training ride for this 100. Monk could easily do this course in the 1:30 range, getting a little faster and recoveries being a little better each time.”<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Monk’s rider credits their crew for their work during the ride. “When it comes down to winning by a minute, you come to appreciate how every second counts in this sport, and having a crew like the one I have really made it happen,” she said. “Thanks to Chris Martin, my parents Susie and Steve Seibert, fiance Erik Fisher and good friend Bob Spoor—go Team Monk!”<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">All in all, Lindsay explained, “I know I did my job right if Monk is a happy horse the next day, whether I came in first or last place.”<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">“The highlight of my day,” said Chris, “was seeing my horse being ‘raced’ for the very first time and all the valuable information and knowledge we gained from that. 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She will be able to ride with even more confidence in Monk’s ability.”<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> <u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"><i>Reprinted with permission from the October issue of Endurance News, official publication of the American Endurance Ride Conference, <a href="http://www.aerc.org/" style="color: #7799bb;" target="_blank">www.aerc.org</a>, <a href="tel:866-271-2372" style="color: #7799bb;" target="_blank" value="+18662712372">866-271-2372</a>.<u></u><u></u></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"><i> </i></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Out of all the pictures that we took I like the one above the most, it was taken by my wife Nancy. She just does not click, she actually has an idea of what she might get when she click the shutter...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I want to thank my fellow competitor Jeremy Reynolds who while following Lindsay and MONK on one of the loops jumped off his horse to retrieve Lindsay's stirrup which had fallen off. Now this was just not your ordinary ride, there were about 5 top horses, hours ahead of the rest of the field, and ALL vying for a medal at this competition. Seems like each of the horses had let the race at some point in time, they were all within minutes of each other.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This is Heathers blog, Jeremy's wife, and am sure she will write something about this event when she has time.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">MONK has had several training rides since his win and BC at the Patriot 100 ride. This coarse at Greenville does have some hills which we prefer. MONK is a great hill horse but does well on most courses, but the tougher the better is our preference. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Map My Run is a program that is on my iphone4 and I use it instead of the Garmin when I am not recording Heart Rates. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What you are looking at is a route that I use when I pony MONK and am looking for some speed. There is about 2000 feet of elevation gain so it is definitely not flat my any means. But I have lots of slight uphills, slight downhills where we can get the speed up a little.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is a fun program, you can stop it and change how you look at the whole thing, you can even go off exploring by using the two controls top right.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Best Condition showing.</div>Chris Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10779773198010608298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761645883239263898.post-50412324922592507742011-08-01T19:37:00.000-07:002011-08-01T22:38:25.600-07:00Patriot FEI 100 - MONK wins plus Best Condition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Monk and I arrived at the Patriot ride on Thursday afternoon and set up camp with enough room for our crew rigs. Our crew consisted of myself, Susie and Steve, Bob Spoor and Eric. Lindsay and Crew arrived about 3pm on Friday. I did ride MONK on Friday morning at about 8am, he was quite as usual, seemed very relaxed on controllable. We went out on loop two for about 4 miles and then turned around and came back. The trail was somewhat rocky but was nice enough to cantor. Since Lindsay would be cantoring most of this ride, that is what we did. MONK and I have been working on some pretty tough training rides, all envolving cantoring in preparation for this ride. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our goal for this FEI ride was to obtain the new "Elite" horse status. The rules say that if a horse does a sub 9 hour 100, then they are considered a "Elite" horse. So, with the ride starting at 5:30 am, I calculated that we needed to finish by just before 7PM to make the sub 9.....</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lindsay braided MONK and we went to vet him through. All A's of coarse so we returned to the trailer where we saddled up for a short test run and tack check. All was good, Lindsay was very happy with his attitude, he is a happy horse, not very friendly but happy, he loves what he does and you can tell, especially when you see him on the trail. He pretty much does not make a real good presentation to the vet, but that is just him, he just chills.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We did walk the 1/3 mile out to the start line and watch them all take off in a cloud of dust, too dark for photo's, could not even tell where Lindsay was, but only 30 or so riders. Loop 1 was 25 miles, first rider in was a FEI rider, Deanna by a minute or so, the rest showed up quickly. MONK was probably in the top 5 or so, we pulled saddle and walked him to the water trough, we had talked about probably NOT using water on him on the first check knowing he chills, but for some reason I think we got a little frantic when it looked like we getting seriously behind, so we started using some water on him. This mistake cost us 6 minutes as he chilled and then was not at criteria when we went into the pulse box. You have to go out and get a new pulse time and then go back in. Hopefully a lesson learned. MONK drank well at the water trough pre vet check and really ate good during the 30 minute hold.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last loop and the most important one. Lindsay and MONK first out. Jeremy 2 nd 1.5 minutes behind, Becky's next, 1.5 min behind Jeremy. Becky had been running tough all day long, she was always there, she even came in first on at least one of the loops. This last loop was 12.5 miles with the finish being about 1/2 mile from camp. We have a 20 minute CRI and weigh in right after the finish line.. Jeremy's crew, Skip, had headed out to a approved crewing spot to help cool Jeremy's horse. Both of their horses left with a vengeance with a very fast cantor. My heart was in my stomach as we loaded up the stuff we needed to cool out MONK at the finish line. We waited while some 50 milers came through, of coarse we all thought it was Lindsay and Jeremy. After awhile here comes a vehicle, and Skip is driving, he stops at the finish line and says "Were going to have a horse race".... I started feeling a little sick as the waiting was horrible. Every time a 50 came down the road my heart would start to race.... Finally here comes Lindsay and MONK on the horizon and she appears to be by herself. I can see her turn and look behind her. Will have to look at the video, I cannot remember if was in a trot or a cantor. One minute later here comes Jeremy all smiles. He said that he tried like heck to catch her, riding 18mph to catch Lindsay, he was asking all the 50's in front of him how far ahead she was.. So, 18 mph cannot catch 18 mph... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So we walked MONK back to the Vet area where we to have our 20 min CRI. We had lots of water so we cooled MONK while we walked. MONK had a great CRI and we asked for the completion exam at the same time and he passed with flying colors. I have some videos and more pictures which I will add at another time.. Look for a photo link in the left hand side of blog. I was also wearing a hat camera so have lots of video... Gotta go feed my boy, so come back to see the extra stuff....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have to say that this ride was probably the most valuable learning ride that we have done to date. This is actually the first time that we have had to RACE Monk and a race it was, it was fast. But being MONK's trainer and my big belief is that you always train faster then you race, so he was well prepared for this speed. He looked fantastic for most of the race, he does get a little hound dog look at the vets, but that is pretty much the norm for him. If his recoveries are good and not swinging, he is ready to go. I think it was also a very valuable learning lesson for Lindsay to be able to ride that LINE without going over the edge... and boy did she find that line this weekend.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</div>Chris Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10779773198010608298noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761645883239263898.post-63414035977532410512011-07-26T17:46:00.000-07:002011-07-26T17:46:53.606-07:00Video of MONK's race boots.<a href="http://goo.gl/photos/SCUQeGuBlT" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-miQMkdShmsI/Ti9eYFFoORI/AAAAAAAAG1A/Dz-kSZONpQM/s512/Race%252520Glue%252520On%252520boots11.jpg" /></a>Chris Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10779773198010608298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761645883239263898.post-83853087700377717802011-07-12T21:55:00.000-07:002011-07-12T21:55:55.601-07:00Training RideMONK has done this training ride a couple of times. Each time he gets just a little faster and recovers a little quicker. Actually his last run on this coarse was 10 days ago, he reduced his overall time by 10 minutes, and a 1 mph average over last time and his recovery was 5 minutes quicker. The finish to this ride is on the uphill, so MONK's heart rate upon reaching the trailer is around 160. I do a separate file for the recovery logs. Please notice the elevation gain, this is not a flat ride. With the change of the Tevis cup ride we had to switch our training from hills to more flat and fast coarse. We are training for the Patriot ride at the end of September which is a FEI 100. This ride will be pretty flat and fast.<br />
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This training ride is done on a mountain road that gets very little traffic, has recently been graded and the hills are pretty short, meaning that we can run most of them. The downhill portion to the turn around point is rolling, with short uphills, and you can canter about 70% of it. After the turn around, you can canter probably 90% and fast trot the steeper downhills.<br />
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MONK will have one more hard ride, probably this same coarse, along with some smaller trail rides.<br />
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<tr><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 3px;" valign="top" width="145">Min Elevation:</td><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 3px;" valign="top">3,347 ft</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 3px;" valign="top" width="145">Max Elevation:</td><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 3px;" valign="top">5,306 ft</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div></div><div class="detailsSummaryCategory" id="detailsHeartRateBox" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="detailsBoxDivider" style="border-top-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; height: 7px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"></div><div class="detailsBoxTrigger expandedSmall" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://connect.garmin.com/api/activity/component/details/style/images/details-icons-common.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -2px -405px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 22px;"></div><div class="detailsBoxTitle heartRate" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://connect.garmin.com/api/activity/component/details/style/images/details-icons.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -8px -156px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font: normal normal bold 13px/22px 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 28px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 120px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Heart Rate</div><div class="detailsBoxCollapseArea" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="summaryTable heartRate" id="bpmSummary" style="color: #2d2d2d; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 24px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 3px;" valign="top" width="145">Avg HR:</td><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 3px;" valign="top">145 bpm</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 3px;" valign="top" width="145">Max HR:</td><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 3px;" valign="top">209 bpm</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="detailsBoxToggleWrapper" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; max-width: 190px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: -5px; top: -35px;"><div class="detailsBoxToggle " id="hrZonesButton" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 70px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 2px;">Zones</div><div class="detailsBoxToggle " id="pomButton" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 70px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 2px;">% of Max</div><div class="detailsBoxToggle toggleSelected" id="bpmButton" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #838383; background-image: url(http://connect.garmin.com/api/activity/component/details/style/images/details-nav-item-bg.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px 4px; color: white; cursor: default; float: right; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 2px;">bpm</div></div></div></div><div class="clearBoth" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></div></div><div class="detailsBox leftBox" id="detailsLapsBox" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #eeeeee; background-image: url(http://connect.garmin.com/api/activity/component/details/style/images/details-box-bg.png); background-origin: initial; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-bottom-left-radius: 5px 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px 5px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-top-left-radius: 5px 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px 5px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-family: 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 7px; padding-right: 7px; padding-top: 7px; position: relative; width: 331px;"><div class="detailsBoxTrigger expanded" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://connect.garmin.com/api/activity/component/details/style/images/details-icons-common.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -5px -305px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 22px;"></div><div class="detailsBoxTitle laps" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://connect.garmin.com/api/activity/component/details/style/images/details-icons.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -8px -806px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font: normal normal bold 13px/22px 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 28px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Laps <span class="detailsLapsNumber" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #838383; background-image: url(http://connect.garmin.com/api/activity/component/details/style/images/details-nav-item-bg.png); background-origin: initial; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: white; display: inline-block; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;">21</span></div><div class="detailsSplitsLink" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 9px; width: 200px;"><a class="detailsBoxToggle" href="http://connect.garmin.com/splits/98566642" id="viewSplitsButton" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-size: 11px; list-style-type: none; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; max-width: 150px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">View Splits</a></div><div class="detailsBoxCollapseArea" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="detailsLapsBoxBg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-bottom-left-radius: 4px 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px 4px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-top-left-radius: 4px 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px 4px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-height: 745px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: auto; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div id="splitsTableContainer" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-height: 745px; min-height: 330px; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: auto; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 900px;"><form action="http://connect.garmin.com/page/activity/activity.faces" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" id="j_id148" method="post" name="j_id148" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><table style="border-bottom-color: white !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-color: white !important; border-left-style: solid !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: white !important; border-right-style: solid !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: white !important; border-top-style: solid !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 329px;"><tbody>
<tr><td class="top" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="dr-table rich-table " height="0" id="j_id148:normalTable" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: white !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-collapse: collapse; border-left-color: white !important; border-left-style: solid !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: white !important; border-right-style: solid !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: white !important; border-top-style: solid !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; empty-cells: show; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 0px;"><colgroup span="4"></colgroup><thead class="dr-table-thead" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px;">
<tr class="dr-table-subheader rich-table-subheader splitsHeader" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://connect.garmin.com/api/activity/component/splits/images/splits-header-bg.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; height: 32px;"><th class="dr-table-subheadercell rich-table-subheadercell splitsHeader " id="j_id148:normalTable:j_id150header" scope="col" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://connect.garmin.com/api/activity/component/splits/images/splits-header-bg.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; white-space: nowrap;"><div id="j_id148:normalTable:j_id150header:sortDiv" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span id="j_id148:normalTable:j_id151">Split</span></div></th><th class="dr-table-subheadercell rich-table-subheadercell splitsHeader " id="j_id148:normalTable:t0header" scope="col" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://connect.garmin.com/api/activity/component/splits/images/splits-header-bg.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; white-space: nowrap;"><div id="j_id148:normalTable:t0header:sortDiv" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span id="j_id148:normalTable:j_id157">Time</span></div></th><th class="dr-table-subheadercell rich-table-subheadercell splitsHeader " id="j_id148:normalTable:t1header" scope="col" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://connect.garmin.com/api/activity/component/splits/images/splits-header-bg.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; white-space: nowrap;"><div id="j_id148:normalTable:t1header:sortDiv" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span id="j_id148:normalTable:j_id163">Distance</span></div></th><th class="dr-table-subheadercell rich-table-subheadercell splitsHeader " id="j_id148:normalTable:t2header" scope="col" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://connect.garmin.com/api/activity/component/splits/images/splits-header-bg.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; white-space: nowrap;"><div id="j_id148:normalTable:t2header:sortDiv" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span id="j_id148:normalTable:j_id169">Avg Speed</span></div></th></tr>
</thead><tfoot>
<tr class="dr-table-subfooter rich-table-subfooter splitsFooter" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; height: 28px; position: relative; text-align: right;"><td class="dr-table-subfootercell rich-table-subfootercell splitsFooter " scope="col" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; height: 28px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-align: right;">Summary</td><td class="dr-table-subfootercell rich-table-subfootercell splitsFooter " scope="col" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; height: 28px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-align: right;">01:33:38</td><td class="dr-table-subfootercell rich-table-subfootercell splitsFooter " scope="col" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; height: 28px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-align: right;">20.07</td><td class="dr-table-subfootercell rich-table-subfootercell splitsFooter " scope="col" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; height: 28px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-align: right;">12.9</td></tr>
</tfoot><tbody id="j_id148:normalTable:tb">
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRow" style="background-color: white; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:0:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:0:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:05:44</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:0:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:0:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">10.4</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRowAlternate" style="background-color: whitesmoke; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:1:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">2</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:1:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:05:47</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:1:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:1:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">10.4</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRow" style="background-color: white; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:2:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">3</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:2:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:04:51</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:2:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:2:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">12.3</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRowAlternate" style="background-color: whitesmoke; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:3:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">4</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:3:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:05:08</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:3:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:3:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">11.7</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRow" style="background-color: white; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:4:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">5</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:4:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:04:23</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:4:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:4:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">13.7</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRowAlternate" style="background-color: whitesmoke; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:5:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">6</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:5:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:04:26</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:5:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:5:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">13.5</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRow" style="background-color: white; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:6:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">7</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:6:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:04:23</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:6:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:6:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">13.7</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRowAlternate" style="background-color: whitesmoke; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:7:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">8</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:7:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:04:30</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:7:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:7:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">13.3</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRow" style="background-color: white; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:8:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">9</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:8:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:04:11</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:8:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:8:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">14.3</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRowAlternate" style="background-color: whitesmoke; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:9:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">10</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:9:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:04:19</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:9:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:9:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">13.9</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRow" style="background-color: white; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:10:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">11</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:10:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:04:16</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:10:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:10:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">14.1</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRowAlternate" style="background-color: whitesmoke; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:11:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">12</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:11:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:04:09</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:11:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:11:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">14.5</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRow" style="background-color: white; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:12:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">13</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:12:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:04:18</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:12:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:12:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">13.9</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRowAlternate" style="background-color: whitesmoke; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:13:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">14</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:13:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:04:25</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:13:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:13:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">13.6</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRow" style="background-color: white; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:14:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">15</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:14:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:04:10</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:14:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:14:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">14.4</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRowAlternate" style="background-color: whitesmoke; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:15:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">16</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:15:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:04:10</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:15:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:15:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">14.4</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRow" style="background-color: white; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:16:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">17</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:16:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:05:10</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:16:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:16:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">11.6</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRowAlternate" style="background-color: whitesmoke; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:17:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">18</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:17:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:04:49</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:17:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:17:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">12.5</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRow" style="background-color: white; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:18:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">19</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:18:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:04:50</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:18:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:18:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">12.4</td></tr>
<tr class="dr-table-firstrow rich-table-firstrow splitsRowAlternate" style="background-color: whitesmoke; height: 28px;"><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:19:j_id150" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">20</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:19:t0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">00:05:09</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:19:t1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">1.00</td><td class="dr-table-cell rich-table-cell " id="j_id148:normalTable:19:t2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'lucida grande', arial, verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;">11.6</td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Well any race starts at home in your horse preparation. We have been conditioning hard, with lots of rest and even more nutritional support. We use the EasyCare Glue on boots applied with just Goober Hoof Pack..., these are applied most of the time at least a week in advance of the ride. MONK gets weighed everyday with a digital scale to make sure he is maintaining he weight. <br />
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Everybody wants a horse like MONK. If you think campaigning a top horse is fun, take another think. Everybody is watching, everybody is waiting for you to fall on your face, and everybody has an opinion. The vets give you very special attention, and rightfully so, and for the most part do a wonderful job. We listen to them intently and try and adjust. We all try to do the best that we can for our equine athletes and we do talk about those who excel, and especially those who over ride their horses. We are trying hard to do the very best for MONK, and those who have seen him going down the trail with that big SMILE on his face will know that he likes what he does. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Just another day at the office for MONK, all business. MONK had Shannon Constanti on board for this training ride, as Dr. Lindsay Graham DVM had to attened her little sisters wedding. We always have a game plan which we try and follow but also to be flexible and change things on the fly as they come up. Shannon has only a 25 mile training ride on MONK so her experience on him is limited. Bob Spoor on Logistric were also riding the 75, Bob and Dr. Lindsay had ridden the Cache Creek ride together and the horses seemed to go good together, so after chatting to Bob we decided that we would at least try and start out together. Well that did not happen, Shannon could not find Bob at the start and after talking to Bob he said that for the first 10 miles or so he was having a control problem with Logistric. </span></td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Not sure what I expected but was totally shocked when Shannon and MONK showed up on the horizon leading the pack into the first 25 mile Vet check, she was followed closely by another lady who I did not know.<br />
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</tbody></table> MONK pulsed quickly to criteria of 60 and we moved him to our crew spot for a snack. We let him eat for a few minutes and then grabbed some hay and grain and walked and fed him while on the way to the Vet. Hold was for 40 minutes with tack on as it was on very warm. MONK ate like he has never ate before at an endurance ride. We had 3 different kind of hay, plus carrots and 3 different grains and a mash, which he did not touch.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Shannon mounted and headed for the out timer for the next 25 miles. As we got to the timer the lady that was running 2nd was told my the timer that she could go. She took off down the trail. Now I know that we pulsed down at least 2 to 5 minutes ahead of her, we were in the pulse box while she was still at the water, and there was only ONE pulse box... Kim, the ride manager was close by so I told her what had happened. As luck would have it the lady forgot her helmet and came back down the trail where Kim told her that they had given her the wrong out time. Actually the time they gave her was her in time, not her pulse down time.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">So, MONK out first by at least a few minutes with a rider hot on his heals, Bob Spoor and Logistic were out 3rd.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I would not have a clue as to how you would build this "MIND SET" into a horse, but MONK does not need another horse to keep up his interest in going down the trail. I have ridden enough horse in races to know that it is INDEED a very special and important factor in having a top endurance horse. This ability alone is so important that it would be a top seller if you could bottle it.. Could be that almost all of the training is done solo, but I seriously doubt it. My best bet is that either you got it or you don't. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The other factor is his ability to dance through the rocky sections almost like he was floating. Part of that could come from being a barefoot horse, not sure, but I think they learn the best spots to put their feet. Of coarse that does not mean that you can go racing through the rocky sections, but what it does mean is that he will have the ability to dance through those sections a little better then the competition. I have pretty much learned in training that I give him FULL discretion as to his path through rocky sections of trail, and for the most part he makes different decisions then I would...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">MONK's ability to climb hills, short, long or forever, is probably one of his best assets, which is mostly just his athletic ability but has to be backed up by training.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just another day at the office, MONK all business!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">OK OK, MONK is the Best Conditioned horse...</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Elevation gained on this ride was 7500 feet, not bad for a desert ride. Our average speed was 9.6 mph with a moving ride time of just over 7 hours. Not sure what official time was as all this info is off of the Garmin.<br />
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</div><div>The weather was cool, in the high to mid 50's for the most part, a little wind but not gale force. This is the perfect weather to keep your horse well hydrated. </div><div><br />
</div><div>It has been awhile since I have shown for BC and I am not so nimble these days. I do have to say that I have some opinions on the 10 min CRI. Shannon pretty much almost walked the last 1/2 mile into the finish line as the Garmin even shows. You only have 10 minutes to get the Heart Rate as low as you can and they use this criteria for BC, so unless your racing to the finish line it is best to come in as slow as you can to keep the HR as low as you can. The 10 min CRI can be a problem if you have close competitor's with horses that pulse quickly, but not today, it was MONK's day.<br />
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What is also means for me, and I may be wrong, but I think it give me the opportunity to WAKE Monk up a little prior to showing as I do not have to worry about the CRI. I think when he is wide awake it makes for a much better presentation, he is paying attention and is much more animated giving the Vets a better presentation as to his fitness. I also do the BC showing a little different then most, more of a lunging exercise on the circles. MONK works well on the off side as that is the side he gets ponied on.<br />
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I thought that this was maybe one of his best BC showings, but maybe it was because I was doing it. He looked absolutely fantastic, just how I like to see him.<br />
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If I was not a bred and born California boy, I would move to Nevada just to be apart of the Nevada States Trail Riders wonderful organization. I have been doing the Nevada rides for years and they consistently step up to the plate and put on the VERY BEST run rides put on anywhere. MONK will wear his NASTR 75 BC blanket proudly.<br />
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