I RODE MY HORSE! June 16, 2008
Posted by kimayars Arena Work (Horse)
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Woo-hoo! I rode my horse, I rode my horse, I rode my horse, I RODE MY HORSE!
Can you tell I’m excited?
It felt SO good to get back in the saddle. I really missed it. Tigger was great today. I lunged first to get a few sillies out then REALLY took my time mounting. After a few antsy moments, he stood perfectly still, even when I picked up my right stirrup. When I put my leg on, he calmy walked off. Yahoo!
We had a great lesson, and spent the time making a string of basic successes for him. We started off with some gentle bending at the walk, then worked on some small spirals at the trot. Finally, we capped off the lesson with canter both directions. He’s lost some of his strength in his topline, but did give it some honest effort. I had a really good time.
The rest of the day pretty much sucked, but my ride from the morning kept a smile on my face. *sigh* What’s a world without horses?…
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Sometimes even if the rest of the day sucks, a good ride in the morning will carry you through. Glad you got to ride. Wish I did, but it will be about 3-4 weeks before my knee heals totally from the arthroscopic surgery yesterday. Now that really sucked. Have some more great rides.
Glad to hear you are back in the saddle. I know you live for riding.
Woohoo!
I know the feeling about not being able to ride… man it’s been 2 days and I’m itching for tomorrow’s ride already. Now you’ll just have to work on riding more consistently - yay for school being over soon!