23rd May 2005, 08:18 AM
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may i add ?
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Originally Posted by Chrome Prince
Yep, I agree kenchar - weight is overrated.
More and more myths and wives-tales.
Consider if a horse is 700kg and carries 2.5kg more penalty.
That's 1/280th of it's mass.
So if Kenchar weighs 80kg (sorry mate), then he has to carry 286 grams around the block.
I don't think that would impact on his time 
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Knowing a little bit about carrying weight on my person (green backpacks) i would say that most people i know try to remove as much weight as possible, if one walks 40 kilometres, thats say 1 metre per step, which is 1000 steps per km, therefore 40,000 steps, times that by .286 kg would mean you would be lifting an extra 11.44 tonnes over that 40 kilometres, therfore over 1600 mtr, a human would be lifting (carrining) over that distance an extra 458 kilos, a horse ???
Just a thought
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