Endurance Results/Grading Explained - Vlog 118 - Beth Endurance
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Whenever I explain Endurance to
Whenever I explain Endurance to a beginner or someone who's never even heard of it I find the part that takes the most explaining is the scoring/grading system. My basic description is that Endurance in the UK is broken down into three categories:
Tasters : Pleasure Rides
Time trials: Graded Endurance rides
Races: Competitive Endurance rides
For Pleasure rides as long as you make it around, at under 12kph, with a sound horse you've won a rosette and can be proud about completing the ride.
Graded rides are the most complicated to score, but basically there is a speed window in which you must complete, for Novice it's 8-15kph, the faster you go within the speed window the higher your heart rate can be to gain the best grade. However, even if you go at the slower speed you can still gain the same grade by having a low heart rate.
They also have an grades chart, which have faster speeds than Novice allows. Whichever Grade you get, the best being a Grade one and the lowest a Grade 4, allocates you a certain amount of points, these points are how your group and National trophies are calculated at the end of the season.
Whereas the grading system means you are only competitive with yourself each class also has a competition within it. So if you've entered the 40km Novice class you will also be able to win that class against the other competitors. You don't have to do anything differently, just ride your ride the way you want to, but every riders results are put into an equation called the 'Performance Formula' this uses your speed and heart rate to calculate an overall winner, usually the horse with the highest speed and lowest heart rate wins.
When you get to the Competitive Endurance rides they are basically a race. You have a mass start, which is not compulsory, you can start after the mass start but your start time is still the same as everyone else, and the first across the line and to pass the final vetting wins. Your points for trophies are then calculated based on distance and placing.
Maybe controversially, but I don't really put much thought into grades. For me the lower distances are the necessary steps to get a horse to FEI and are training for my long term goal. With that in mind, even at the lower levels, I will try and present to the vet as quickly as possible at under 64bpm, this means I might not get the best grade but it does mean my horses are being trained to present as quickly and will have got invaluable practice for vet gates when the time comes. It also means I learn how their heart rate reacts to certain aspects of crewing, so I may not get a good grade but I complete the ride to get the necessary qualifier to move up through the levels. It all just depends on what's important to you, what goals you've set yourself and how you want to compete.
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