My name is Keith Kibler and I am team 104 "Shawnee". My wife and I live on a small farm in deep Southern Illinois by the Shawnee National Forest. We raise, train, sell and compete gaited horses in endurance. I come from a back ground of human long distance competition and use those training protocols with gps watches, and heart rate monitors to prepare gaited horses for 30,50 and 100 mile endurance competition.
We currently have twhs, mfts and twh and std bred cross. One of our twh mares, Kate, is the first twh to take 1st or Best Condition in a 100 mile 24 hour event. She is the little grey I am riding in the picture. Sandy and I have a very good time training with each other and competing against each other. She is so little it is not fair and our horses are always asking me to lose weight. Shoot, I keep getting lighter saddles but I guess that is not enough.
I am a mentor with the aerc (the endurance association) and have the pleasure of writing for Trailblazer Magazine. If any of you would like information on endurance, please ask me.
Keith Kibler
http://shawneesunrisefarm.net/
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2013 / 1501.28 Miles / 3rd Place
11.64 miles, 1-1-2014
ReplyDelete6.04 Southern Honey
5.59 Indigo Spirit
Hey there Keith! good to see you join us! I bet with all the training miles you do, you'll beat us there alone! ;)
ReplyDeleteHi Nat, I will admit recording mileage is a motivating factor.:-)
DeleteKeith
21.04 ,miles 1-04
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10.34 Cheyenne
10.70 Southern Honey
Awesome cover photo! How cool is that?! :-D
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DeleteNeedless to say, my wife Sandy beat me to the finish line.
Keith
1-11-2014 17.08 miles Kate
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1-18 10 miles touthern Honey
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1-19 2.02 Kate
13.02 to add
62, 78 running total to date
1-25 10 miles Southern Honey
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1-26 5 miles Kate (after she KICKED me)
20 miles to add,
82.78 running total to date
2-1 5 miles kate
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2-28
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108.78 running total
Congrats on getting your first of many 100 miles :-)
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120.78 running total
3-15
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130.95 running total
3-22
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151.12
4-05
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158.84 running total
9 miles to add, 4-13, (5 Kate, 2.Indigo, 2. Samba)
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15.5 miles to add,
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5 miles Kate, 4-18
10.50 Indigo , 4-19
20 miles to add
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Kate 12.5 miles, 4-26
Blues 1.5 miles 4-26
Dandy 2 miles 4-26
Indigo Spirit 4 miles 4-27
23.6 to add for a total of 226.94
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5-03- 18 miles, Indigo Spirit
5-04 .5 Gypsy Go Girl (first ride)
5-04 3.3 Kate
37 miles to add, 263.94 running total
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5-12 2 miles kate
5-17 20.4 miles kate
5-17 1 mile kate jumping
5-17 1.6 miles cheyenne jumping
ReplyDelete64 miles to add: 327. 99 total to date.
5-23 Blues 10 miles
5-24, Kate 19 miles
5-19 Cheyenne 2 miles
5-26 Blues 13 miles.05
5-26 Cheyenne 20 miles
12.03 miles to add. total to date is 340.02
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103 miles to add, 440.02 (forgot to add previous week)
ReplyDelete6-20 Indigo Spirit 3 miles
6-21 Indigo Spirit 50 miles (7th place, Dead Dog Endurance Race) (per published race course distance, not my GPS)
6-22 Silvers Wild Kate 50 miles (1st Place, Dead Dog Endurance Race) (per published race course distance, not my GPS)
Way to go Keith!!!! Wow!!!
DeleteCongrats on your great rides and on getting over 400 miles!
ReplyDeleteThank you all very much, my riding this year has been greatly curtailed due to my Sandy having a rare neurological disorder called "stiff Person" disorder and then liver cancer. She is cancer free and with help on and off the horse she is up to 20 miles once a week. So we are blessed and hoping and believing she will be back at endurance in the fall
ReplyDelete18 miles to add please, running total should be 458.02 miles
ReplyDelete7-12 Southern Honey 15 miles
7-13 Indigo Spirit 2 miles
7-15 Kate, 1 mile
19 miles to add, Southern Honey, total to date, 477.02
ReplyDelete9.93 to add running total should be 467.95
ReplyDelete7-27 Kate and Indigo
:-) thank you for doing this!
8-07
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Kate 18 miles
Kate 2.7
8-16- 15.52 to add (Kate) running total shoudl be 503.54
ReplyDeleteCongrats on getting over 500 miles :-)
ReplyDeleteAugust 23rd, 9 miles Honey
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August 30th, 12 miles Honey
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Thank you so much for doing this, you are an encourager!
August 31st, 9.8 Kate
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534. 34 running total
100 miles, Lincoln Trials 100 mile Arabian Horse Association District Championship. 2nd place on Kate, the wonder Twh.
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Congrats on your 2nd place!!! Love those gaited horses :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you, I mentored a woman who was riding in her second event and using my top back up twh. They went 3rd behind my Kate horse.
ReplyDeleteMy wife, who has been recovering from liver cancer and is dealing with a rare autoimmune disorder called Stiff person Disorder wanted to go back to the same race she first fell at one year ago. So I helped her train her top mft, and trained a standie/twh cross for a man I was mentoring in his first ride. They went 2nd and 3rd in the 30. It was the best weekend of our lives. I am so grateful!
Oh, thank you again for doing what you do here.
9.6 miles on Blues, 643.94
9/13/2014
9-20
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656.36 running total
9-21-2014
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671.63 running total
9-27-2014
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687. 90 running total
10-04-2014
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704.91 running total
Congrats on getting over 700 miles :-)
ReplyDeleteRunning total 729.91
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11-08-2104
13 miles Kate
11-15-2014
12 miles southern Honey
running total- 749.91
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20 miles ,
11-28 , Indigo Spirit
8 miles
11-30, Silvers Wild Kate
running total now is 769.91
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1-13-2014
running total is now 186.49
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I now have not one but two 100 mile one day endurance twhs finishers. That is something that is a first in the world kind of things. Yes, that is a brag, but it is a brag on two fine mares!.:-)
running total is now 802.54
ReplyDeleteKate, 12-25-2014 16.06 miles
running total is now 820.60
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Congrats on getting over 800 miles:-)
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