Awareness of the outside world. Sample policy. Scintillation: Covid and Con Crud Mitigation Strategy. Summary of recent science on masking. BoingBoing: New study provides the “definitive answer on masks.” They work. Sandlin, May 24, 2024. Hat tip to B for second link.
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Virtual Tevis Cup 2024
100 Miles in 100 Days
10 April to 21 July
Rodney
11 miles this week, 58 miles total
11 outings – 9 handwalks, 2 ride
Milton
10 miles this week, 62 miles total
10 outings – 7 handwalks, 2 rides, 1 drive
Tuesday 21 May to Monday 27 May
Logistics
Tuesday. Milton walk in hand. Rodney got shod in the morning & got the day off. This isn’t as much of a hard & fast rule as it was with Previous Horse (oy!). Still it seemed polite to give him a day to adjust after spending three days shoeless on his delicate TB hoof.
Wednesday – Friday. Walks in hand, Rodney did two afternoon walks extra as catch up from the shoeless period.
Saturday & Sunday. Walk in am. Ride in afternoon.
Monday. Milton hitch. Rodney walk in hand.
Commentary
We have two routes for our walks. Five times back & forth along one long side of the pasture. Or along that side, around the corner, along the short side, return, repeat three times. Although they measure the same distance, the three-lap route seems faster. Perhaps because ya don’t have to count as high.
Lap, length, or loop?
TIL. In swimming, lap = length. A lap is NOT up & back. “In swimming, the term “lap” is used to indicate a single length of the pool.” NBC Olympics: Swimming 101: Olympic rules and regulations, Laps and turns, Goodman, Feb. 26, 2024. This is apparently a common error.
Possible reason for confusion. If you take into account that “Olympic swimming utilizes a “long course” pool, meaning each lap is 50 meters.” (ibid), then one has to swim two lengths of the average pool to equal an Olympic lap. I’m guessing here.
Therefore, our routes are 10 laps and 6 laps.
OTOH
On a track, a lap is once around, starting at point x, returning to point x. We increment our count at the same point each time, as we turn around & head away from the barn once more.
Therefore, our routes are 5 laps and 3 laps.
Lap, length, or loop? Depends. Are we swimming or running?
We have been counting them as 5 and 3 laps. We will continue to do so. I guess we are running.
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Katherine
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Thanks. I didn’t know about the lap-length-loop thing. At the pool we call the 2 lengths a lap. Now I see why.
Jane
I could see this causing much confusion from pool to pool.