This webinar is part of 4 webinars to get ready for your upcoming endurance season. This is the 2nd webinar in the seriesIn this one we are starting to look forward to our upcoming season. Taking into account what we have done previous year and what we have learned from evaluating and assessing. Our action list and weak links will to a large ...

Have you followed the World Endurance Championships 2024? If you didn't, have a look at the different media available. A start in the dark in a huge thunderstorm and then 160 km of tough muddy conditions, really testing all combinations at this top level of our sport. Being a Dutchie in the UK, I supported 2 countries, cheering on both the Dut...

We have been working on this project for a while, and on Saturday 30th March, we began the first session of the Groen Equestrian 2024 Comparative Heart Rate Study in Banbury, Oxfordshire. As many of you have noticed, I am very interested in heart rates, particularly how various breeds of horses respond to the same workload and how we can provide be...

In the previous blog, I told you about logging the distance, duration, average speed, and elevation of your training sessions. Adding indexes for climb and canter gives a selection of great parameters to compare training and see how you progress. But these numbers do not tell you anything about how your horse actually experiences the effort du...

A short clip with video's on how to do good quality hill work. 

This is part 1 of an older webinar focussed on riding and riding exercises I feel are beneficial for endurance horses. This is part one of this webinar, you will find the second here: ,  Thus webinar in 2 parts  explains the basics I work from, it features pictures and video's of examples and hopefully these will help you with y...

A separate talk for vetgates, many are daunted by their first ride with a vetgate and yes, there are different things to look out for but try to see it as  "just a nice break" before you go again. Of course you will be vetted again and that can be a worry. In this tutorial we will focus on how to vet as quickly as possible and how you rid...

Riding to win will require a different strategy (and training) on your ride day than riding to finish (though for me the latter is always my primary aim). Whilst riding to win can bring out the ultimate competitor in you, and perhaps your horse, you do need to keep an eye on riding to finish well. In this tutorial, we will focus on optimising your ...

This is the first in a series of articles I wrote for the EGB endurance magazine in 2023. I have added it as a blog as well for you to enjoy and use. You can find all follow up articles in the Free GE Community, so have a look there for a lot of information. I (well, really hubby and me ? ) bought a new car. Our older (very fuel-efficient) diesel n...

You would think that you would ride the same as you so in training as you would when competing and this can be the case, but it needn't be. Especially for longer distances that have more challenges you would want to make sure you keep your horse with enough energy to finish the ride safely. In our training we should primarily focus on stamina train...

When you are watching this tutorial I presume you have trained your horse for the distance you want to ride. But have you really?  Different conditions can make a huge outcome to the result of your ride. Not only terrain, how you ride it and how that will affect your horse, but also weather conditions (which can actually make the same competit...

What a year. What a horse!A total of 8 rides ( 9 ride days) and 460 km (the most she's ever done), nearly 9000m (!!) elevation including the Golden Horseshoe 80 km and Red Dragon 80 km! In 2022 I have solely focused on competing Asphodele Larzac, my small (but huge ) amber champagne part bred Arab mare. So why is she both small ...

The workbook for this series is will help you make your training schedule. And you can log all your work with the excel sheet containing the intensity index. Some of the tutorials of this series are more informative than practical and the workbook will give you a summary of the information that is in the tutorials of this series. You can downl...

The workbook for this series is will help you make your training schedule. And you can log all your work with the excel sheet containing the intensity index. Some of the tutorials of this series are more informative than practical and the workbook will give you a summary of the information that is in the tutorials of this series. You can downl...

Using a heartrate monitor can give you vital information about your horse, about his general wellbeing, training and fitness levels. In this tutorial, I will discuss different uses for your heartrate monitor using a baseline, understanding zones, Vmax and average heartrates. And of course recovery.  I will also tell you about the limitations h...

Using a heartrate monitor can give you vital information about your horse, about his general wellbeing, training and fitness levels. In this tutorial, I will discuss different uses for your heartrate monitor using a baseline, understanding zones, Vmax and average heartrates. And of course recovery.  I will also tell you about the limitations h...

So how do you know your horse is fit enough for the goal you have set? I'm afraid you'll never know for sure until you try… But I will show you some indicators about how to have a pretty good idea of how you are doing and what to check in this tutorial. You can never pre-empt everything that will come your way on a ride. But if you train well (usin...

So how do you know your horse is fit enough for the goal you have set? I'm afraid you'll never know for sure until you try… But I will show you some indicators about how to have a pretty good idea of how you are doing and what to check in this tutorial. You can never pre-empt everything that will come your way on a ride. But if you train well (usin...