Awareness of the outside world. Vox: This number can measure how dangerous a heat wave is for you, What is the wet bulb temperature? And why is it so important? Irfan, Jun 17, 2024. The Guardian: Millions face record-high temperatures as heat dome intensifies over US, Helmore and Salam, 17 Jun 2024.
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Virtual Tevis Cup 2024
100 Miles in 100 Days
10 April to 21 July
Rodney
9 miles this week, 90 miles total
9 outings – 7 handwalks, 2 ride
Milton
7 miles this week, 86 miles total
7 outings – 4 handwalks, 2 ride, 1 drive
All outings one mile in pasture.
Tuesday 11 June to Monday 17 June
Logistics
Milton. All mornings. Tues to Fri, handwalk. Saturday, hitch. Sunday & Monday, ride.
Rodney. Tues to Fri, morning walks. Wed to Fri, additional afternoon walks. We doubled up to catch Milton, got on a roll, & kept going. Saturday, day off. Ran out of time after hitching Milton in the morning. Real Feel of 106o even late in the afternoon. Sun & Mon, morning ride. Sunday afternoon off because hot, again. Monday afternoon off because shod.
Commentary
The pulldown menu for Activity on the VT logging page has Ride, Hand-Walk, or Drive.
To be pedantic, Hand-Walk is an inaccurate term here. The parallel to ride or drive is work-in-hand. You can do this at any gait. I’ve seen a trainer do a dressage test in-hand, by jogging along behind the horse at the trot. I don’t remember if they cantered. The Spanish Riding School does fancy airs above the ground in-hand. So, you could do VT miles by running along next to your horse. Last year’s IRL Tevis winner did a large chunk of the race this way. Equine Ink: Jeremy Reynolds and Treasured Moments Win Tevis 2023 Bridle-less!
Anyway.
The term works for us, although I skip the hyphen, because it’s what we do and is shorter than saying, walk the horses in-hand.
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Katherine
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Thank you for the awareness link to wet bulb temperature. I hadn’t heard of it. Makes sense.
Jane
Yr welcome.