Stat by Stat, Virtual Tevis 2024

Awareness of the outside world. A glimmer is the opposite of a trigger. Hat tip to K.

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Results Recap

Virtual Tevis Cup 2024, 100 Miles in 100 Days, 10 April to 21 July.

Rodney, 100 Miles, 10 April to 24 June.

Milton, 100 Miles, 10 April to 1 July.

Commentary

Perfect attendance! From start to finish Milton went out every day!

Each outing was a one-mile, so we went out 100 times. Rodney only walked. Milton did some trotting while hitched. We went out almost every morning. On the weekends, we would go out again in the afternoon. Riding and hitching was in the afternoons at the beginning, then switched to mornings once the heat landed.

Precipitation cooperated. One morning it rained hard enough that we went out in the afternoon. A few mornings, we walked in a heavy mist. One day was close enough to actual rain that the horses could not believe they were having to work! (gentle hand-walk) in! a! downpour! (light rain).

Milton: ride 18 miles, hand-walk 70 miles, drive 12 miles.

As I said elsewhere, Milton was one of the few entries to ride and hand-walk AND drive. He ended up with more rides than Rodney from one day when I was tired the afternoon of a show and chose to hand-walk, and one day when Rodney had a mild eye irritation that kept me out of the saddle but did not prevent him from walking his mile.

Rodney: ride 16 miles, hand-walk 84 miles.

Rodney missed days for three reasons. One, when I had to be out of town for family stuff. Well, he missed Virtual Tevis miles, but he still went for walks with Milton. Two, lost shoe. Three, one day when Milton hitched in the morning and we chose not to come back in the afternoon. If we had been defending a streak, we could have done something. He finished before Milton by doing more afternoon walks during the week. His 84 rides were not 84 miles of riding, since we did a lap or two of hand-walk to settle before starting the ride.

I was amazed at how fast the miles mounted when we did double sessions on the weekends, and how much it dropped off once it became too hot to work in the afternoons.

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Katherine