{"id":8038,"date":"2016-12-10T22:19:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T22:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/12\/10\/teafortteu-delicatefury-jenniferrpovey\/"},"modified":"2018-12-04T09:28:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T09:28:36","slug":"teafortteu-delicatefury-jenniferrpovey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/12\/10\/teafortteu-delicatefury-jenniferrpovey\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8038 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/12\/10\/teafortteu-delicatefury-jenniferrpovey\/attachment\/8039\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tumblr_ndd591CXmV1u05pblo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tumblr_ndd591CXmV1u05pblo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tumblr_ndd591CXmV1u05pblo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/teafortteu.tumblr.com\/post\/152984329073\">teafortteu<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/delicatefury.tumblr.com\/post\/152917159430\">delicatefury<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jenniferrpovey.tumblr.com\/post\/152902534317\">jenniferrpovey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sandetiger.tumblr.com\/post\/152348060274\">sandetiger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/meridok.tumblr.com\/post\/152346389730\">meridok<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/meridok.tumblr.com\/post\/124998496466\">meridok<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valerie1972.tumblr.com\/post\/124596507254\">valerie1972<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quinnedleson.tumblr.com\/post\/99876081185\">quinnedleson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Writing a historical novel means knowing how far they can travel on a horse, This is good info right here.<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F165999936238860586%2F&amp;t=ZjJmNGQzY2ExMzczZjY0ZmE2ZGJlNjcwMzc1ZDA3OGEyM2JkNTk5NSxXQ0pSVWZPWA%3D%3D&amp;m=0\">Pinterest<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Off the top of my head, it jibes with what I\u2019ve discovered in other sources.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Queuing this with a reminder to self: add that Cartographer\u2019s Guild thread link to this, it has more details w basically the same numbers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026 things i never did: add that link. Ahem.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Just to add re: horses re: typical 4 gaits<\/p>\n<p>Walk is an average of 4mph<br \/>Trot is an average of 8mph<br \/>Canter is an average of 16-20 mph<br \/>Gallop is an average of 25-30 mph<\/p>\n<p>Your gallop is probably only gonna be 40 mph if a) your horse is really fit or b) your horse is built for running, a la the English Thoroughbred or the American Quarter Horse.\u00a0Your horse also needs to be pretty physically fit to sustain a gallop for more than a couple of miles. Top level eventing equines, at the peak of physical fitness, only sustain a gallop for about 11 minutes\/4 miles, and that\u2019s a tremendous effort resulting from serious conditioning, and is also including going over\/through various terrain and obstacles that the average horse might shy away from. If your horse hits that speed, they will need to recover immediately afterward, either through stopping, or going at the walk.<\/p>\n<p>Your horse will probably be able to maintain a relatively high speed for longer if they are alternating between walking and trotting, with some cantering.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Good references for horse travel include the Pony Express, literally any cavalry program, and modern-day endurance racing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More on horses and distance.<\/p>\n<p>Message riders, <b>including<\/b>\u00a0the Pony Express, would switch horses so they could run a horse to exhaustion without killing it and then grab another fresh one while a groom took care of the spent horse. Which would then do another run after it had recovered. Pony Express riders would switch horses about every 10 miles. Also, the riders were restricted to 125 pounds. Most Pony Express riders were teenaged boys. So, how far did a Pony Express rider ride in a day? About 75 miles. Still not 100. Could you do it? Probably, with multiple horses, but you\u2019d be riding yourself beyond exhaustion and it\u2019s more likely you\u2019d fall off from tiredness, bluntly.<\/p>\n<p>Stage coaches also used a similar system to maximize speed. A stagecoach could cover 60 to 70 miles per day. This was, by the way, the fastest way to travel in Regency England.<\/p>\n<p>100 miles in a day on a single horse?<\/p>\n<p>The Tevis Cup is a 100 mile race with a time limit of 24 hours. In 2016 the winning rider, Karen Donley, rode Royal Patron to the finish at Auburn at 9:48pm, having set off from Robie Park at 5:15am.<\/p>\n<p>This means it took her 16.3 hours to cover the 100 mile distance on a single horse.<\/p>\n<p>The Tevis Cup is the most difficult endurance ride in the world.<\/p>\n<p>After such a ride, both horse and rider would be <b>spent<\/b>. They take days to recover from these rides. Days.<\/p>\n<p>The horses have to be at least 8 years old to compete at the top level. They\u2019re checked by a vet regularly, and these horses and riders train extensively.<\/p>\n<p>There is <b>absolutely no way horse and rider could cover 100 miles in a day and be fit for anything else afterwards<\/b>. Furthermore, if a top race rider is taking 16 hours to do that distance, with anything quicker likely to kill the horse\u2026<\/p>\n<p>70 is more reasonable, but they\u2019re still not going to be much use.<\/p>\n<p>So, how far <b>should<\/b>\u00a0you have your character travel on horseback in one day.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is 20-30 miles, maybe 40 if they\u2019re on a road in level terrain. Less if they\u2019re having to trailblaze, use game trails, etc. That is assuming that your characters know how to ride and that their horses are in appropriate condition.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also assuming you don\u2019t have a wounded, unconscious companion tied across the saddle. Or have a pack horse. Dead weight &#8211; unconscious or dead bodies, the deer you just killed, your packs, or somebody who doesn\u2019t know how the heck to ride slow horses down considerably.<\/p>\n<p>The distances are similar, by the way, for mules.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m going to add this because no one else will:<\/p>\n<p>Most tractors\u2019 top speed, on a highway, is about 20mph.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re writing someone driving down a rural road (backroad or highway) during the spring or the fall, there\u2019s a chance that they\u2019ll be caught behind a tractor. You wanna frustrate someone, have that happen to them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>teafortteu: delicatefury: jenniferrpovey: sandetiger: meridok: meridok: valerie1972: quinnedleson: Writing a historical novel means knowing how far they can travel on a horse, This is good info right here. (via Pinterest) Off the top of my head, it jibes with what I\u2019ve discovered in other sources. Queuing this with a reminder to self: add that Cartographer\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/12\/10\/teafortteu-delicatefury-jenniferrpovey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3163],"class_list":["post-8038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-good-info","post_format-post-format-gallery","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8040,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038\/revisions\/8040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}