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dancing_crowExercise: ran, chased by trainer around weights for upper and lower body
horses: three Canadians
fabric: yes
I hate running. However, I have accomplished a paradigm shift, where walking is sometimes too slow, and then I can run somewhere.
woot, anyone?
The weights thing has to give me a rest because I feel like my arms are going to break off. I can do nothing but horses tomorrow, and skip Yoga/pilates and count on circus to stretch and whatever else.
Rode Ruby down the road and back. We got further than before. Still a lot of spooking, and some very snorty moments but in general better behaved than Monday. Also 20 degrees warmer and many fewer leaves flapping around. I am thinking that rocks and trees are much less scary than mailboxes and storm drains, which might explain some of the difference between the fall pony and the now pony.
Took the red horse on the trail ride I meant to do Monday when I got lost, and we had a lovely time. The ground was clear almost all the way around the loop. We mostly walked and trotted, but we did do a little cantering and jumped over three downed logs. One was after we had to walk over two because they were under something I would have cracked my head on, then two strides of trot and pop over. It was awesome. Except for the remarkably duplicitious mud that I failed to understand but we got through that too.
Still working on Penny in the ring, doing a lot of mounting and dismounting. She's getting better, calmer and more likely to stand still as a rock while I mess about on and around her back. After a stiffish workout I practiced leading her up to everything and mounting from it: cavaletti blocks, large rocks, stumps, a small plastic barrel with sand in the bottom. Definitely improving. Tomorrow, the folding chair.
horses: three Canadians
fabric: yes
I hate running. However, I have accomplished a paradigm shift, where walking is sometimes too slow, and then I can run somewhere.
woot, anyone?
The weights thing has to give me a rest because I feel like my arms are going to break off. I can do nothing but horses tomorrow, and skip Yoga/pilates and count on circus to stretch and whatever else.
Rode Ruby down the road and back. We got further than before. Still a lot of spooking, and some very snorty moments but in general better behaved than Monday. Also 20 degrees warmer and many fewer leaves flapping around. I am thinking that rocks and trees are much less scary than mailboxes and storm drains, which might explain some of the difference between the fall pony and the now pony.
Took the red horse on the trail ride I meant to do Monday when I got lost, and we had a lovely time. The ground was clear almost all the way around the loop. We mostly walked and trotted, but we did do a little cantering and jumped over three downed logs. One was after we had to walk over two because they were under something I would have cracked my head on, then two strides of trot and pop over. It was awesome. Except for the remarkably duplicitious mud that I failed to understand but we got through that too.
Still working on Penny in the ring, doing a lot of mounting and dismounting. She's getting better, calmer and more likely to stand still as a rock while I mess about on and around her back. After a stiffish workout I practiced leading her up to everything and mounting from it: cavaletti blocks, large rocks, stumps, a small plastic barrel with sand in the bottom. Definitely improving. Tomorrow, the folding chair.