Tag: optoutside
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With our endurance season ending a bit earlier than expected, my focus is shifting towards winter work. I was able to fit in a quick…
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I was finally able to cross a bucket list ride off a few weeks ago in epic style with a friend I don’t get to…
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Whew, what a week! I feel I got the mild version of a trip to the AERC National Championships, not that it’s a bad thing.…
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The transition back to the home front after an endurance ride is often the bumpiest part, life narrows to the essentials at ride camp and…
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Well, for a ride that wasn’t even on my radar until about mid-April, our first expedition to Still Prineville definitely qualified as endurance! I’m super…
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I was at my happiest today in a gravel parking lot. We were in our way home from a fantastic weekend at the Grizzly Mountain…
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To say that 2023 was a banner year for me seems wrong somehow, in the face of…*gestures at everything else*. Though to look back and…
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This weekend I had the choice between a new to me endurance ride in Eastern Oregon, Lava Crest, or returning to Mount Adams Horse Camp…
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Endurance is such a tough sport in multiple ways, but also utterly fulfilling…as long as your equine partner is willing. Limited distance rides are fun,…
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The true measure of endurance for me isn’t just completing on time, or having the vet declare my horse fit to continue at the end…