One in the saddle, one on the ground
Let us set a peaceful albeit dusty scene: I’m typing this up on my laptop in my cozy trailer bed, Bernard passed out next to me, and the reassuring sounds of Tarma slurping up her wet alfalfa pellets coming through the screen door, as it’s not yet cold enough to have to close it. I […]
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I didn’t have enough brain power after a work and volunteer drama filled week to come up with a catchy title. So a perfectly descriptive one will have to do! It wouldn’t be a rookie’s Tevis goal without some healthy doubts, so I’ll cover that first before the gritty details of where we are at […]
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January conditioning in the sunshine
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Old year out with a sunshine ride, new year in with deliberation
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Slowly putting in the work to getting to the Tevis starting line
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Five years with Tarma the spicy chocolate mare!
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Summer interrupted just kept on…interrupting. A few weeks ago I was hauling Tarma and Curly up to Timothy Lake, so Kade and I could do our annual trail ride and swim into the lake. Well….this happened instead: “Kade and I woke up, packed lunch, got morning horse chores done in good time, managed to get […]
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I think I mentioned this a few posts back, but this summer isn’t looking anything at all like what I had pictured. I’ve fit in only a handful of actual “conditioning” rides, and we’ve only made it out to one endurance ride. It was a blast, but we did the trail ride, so no addition […]
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As with anything related to endurance, futzing with feet is a long-term process for most. For myself, I’m super-duper stubborn and man have we been on a journey without quite an end in sight with Tarma’s feet and hoof protection for endurance rides. To start with, let me list my priorities, so you know partly why I’m […]
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This week it’s been four years since I went to see Tarma, handed over a decent sized check and hauled her home to my friend’s place and started inflicting my love and efforts and dreams upon her. While I was trying to sum up where we’re at for my dressage trainer at our last lesson, […]
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On the loose 