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Logging 2012 Miles How far did you go?

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#1 ·
I had a blast logging miles for the year 2011 on Biscuit. Celeste and Phantom were interested in keeping it going so here we go. Hope Nokota and SailorGriz join in - they always have fun rides!!! Post your GPS trails, pictures, and descriptions of your rides here...can't wait to see where our travels take us in 2012!

Is it possible to get a sticky on this, mods?
 
#299 ·
Today we decided to go on a nice little traffic free trail. Just 3 miles.
Seems that my poor little psycho princess likes the traffic better.
She didn't bolt, spook, rear, or buck. She was,however, a total emotional wreck the whole time. She was so nervous that she tripped, fell, banged her nose and knees. She hopped right up. I stayed on. Nobody was the worse for wear. She just wasn't sure what to do with the narrow trails. I think it was the sound that my helmet made when it hit limbs. After her little fall, she started behaving more normally. I'm thinking that when she gets to be about 30..........

65.34 for the year so far.
 
#301 ·
What are you feeding your horses? I found that sugar makes our horses a little gamey......
 
#300 ·
:shock: I bet your mare was thinking "speak for yourself sister!!! I have wear and tear on my knee and nose!!

Poor girl...she will have to pay attention. Glad you kept your seat.

I didn't ride this week and barely got to see my horse on two days. They started on my cake kitchen Monday. I wasn't expecting them really until Wednesday but thrilled they started. I had to scramble for few items (said they were in stock - they were NOT!) and then some things were delivered 5 days earlier than I asked so scrambling to put them somewhere!!

I had 2 party cakes and a wedding cake this weekend. I am supposed to be up at Ebenezer RIGHT NOW but my butt is still at home. I was exhausted after staying up all night. I would love to go up there tomorrow but it a 200 mile round trip for a 6 mile ride...not doing it. Going riding at Tyrrell tomorrow even if it is by myself. My month of June is jam packed with 8 wedding cakes so I am going to try to get out and ride. OMG I haven't hardly rode this year!
 
#303 ·
I made a solo ride today!

I was able to make a very short ride today; all of 1.8 miles but it was a solo ride and a first one successfully for me.

I didn't get out to the barn until darn near 5:30 PM. I waited for it too cool off! I loaded my trailer and hauled Biscuit to the park. Only one snag...Biscuit always tries to evade the saddle and he bumped into me and I stumbled backwards and fell on my butt. Oh yay.:oops::oops:

I dropped the saddle in the process. Got up, saddled up, mounted up. The woods are tore up quiet a bit as part of our group rode there yesterday. Biscuit walked calmly all through the trails which was wonderful since he hasn't been rode in a ****'s age. The mosquitoes were horrendous and Biscuit was lathered near his flanks by the saddle when we got back...pretty darn humid today.

I would have liked to have rode longer but it was getting late. I am going to start riding more by myself like a big girl. :) My horse was a doll except for the saddling issue!
 
#304 · (Edited)
I'm glad that you got to ride today.
We rode the same little 3 mile trail.
Rather than just "PsychoPrincess" I got 75% psycho princess and 25% pretty princess. She was better, but the horseflies drove them both crazy even with tons of fly spray on them. We had a nervous but uneventful ride. Clay's horse got a long vine stuck in her tail. She swished it around and my horse almost had a heart attack. She spun around a couple of times, but she stopped and stood there while Clay dismounted and untangled the vine. That tail drags the ground. It is pretty, but I guess we need to trim it a bit.

68.34 total miles.

Not going to win any world records, but it's not that bad for a fat lazy woman.
 
#305 ·
LOL she must be a pill!!! Glad you got out though.

I am meeting my cousin at the barn tomorrow. She is bringing her gelding to try on some saddles there. She is saddle hunting. We are supposed to go out in the back to ride - I have only taken Biscuit down the road there but not out in the fields. So it will be a sort of trail ride tomorrow!!
 
#308 ·
My cousin came and we saddled up and rode out to the back of the ranch around 1:00 PM. I have boarded there for 3 years and saw something today I hadn't ever seen out there - coyotes!!! We saw two right at the end of the paddocks going out into the huge field. We rode 1.3 miles. OMG it was BLAZING hot and my face was beat red - and I had on my cool vest, yamulka hat thingy in my helmet and Frogg Togg towel around my neck. Gaaaa - I don't mind riding during the day but not in the open - I like riding in the woods with some shade!!
 
#310 ·
Geez Celeste I wouldn't say fun....it was 91 degrees but the humidity was pretty nasty. I felt like I was a limp noodle for hours after I came home. Ugh....Biscuit was listening to my cousin's commands to her horse and I had to tell him "listen to me...not to her!!" He wanted to GO today but he was controllable even when Sarge came barreling up from the other side of the paddock as we went by!
 
#313 ·
Isn't that the truth? Oh yeah..and you forgot the shoveling of the poop....After my ride at the park I had to clean the trailer of poop...yesterday on the wash rack Biscuit thought I needed another chore so he deposited a lovely pile of work for me. Yay!! But as I always say, a pooping sweating horse is a healthy horse!
 
#314 ·
I rode in the arena today. The "Psycho Princess" suddenly became the "Pretty Princess" again. Rather than sheer terror, she was happy. The issues were things like maintaining the canter, going into the canter, leads, stuff like that. Oh, and she did work to avoid a nice little poo pile. Can't get our feet dirty, can we?
 
#318 ·
LOL I don't know what happened to it! I think I posted that I didn't get out to the barn today as I was tied up with cake stuff...picking up my support system from the mother of the bride from this weekend, going up to a town an hour away to cash a brides check, buying paint and a vinyl floor for my cake kitchen!!! Wooo HOOOOO It is almost done!
 
#319 ·
Knott County KY
May 2-6
Average: 38miles/day
Rode 4 days straight.

should be noted that i rode my quarter horse and the rest of the group was gaited and we never fell behind.... <3 my quarters!
 
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#320 ·
Got to the CTR this past weekend (it has its own thread here) and got to ride some gorgeous trails.

But maybe even more exciting, Dream got cleared for riding yesterday!!!! Cannot wait to get back on her. :D:clap:

2012 mileage
...
Apr 14 -- 50.03 miles -- 301.38 total miles
Apr 15 -- 11.97 miles -- 313.35 total miles
Apr 19 -- 7.62 miles -- 320.97 total miles
Apr 21 -- 11.04 miles -- 332.01 total miles
Apr 28 -- 53.7 miles -- 358.71 total miles
May 19 -- 24.96 miles -- 383.67 total miles
May 20 -- 24.96 miles -- 408.63 total miles
 
#321 ·
Dawn, so glad Dreams is better. Poor baby...she had a rough month! Hope that she doesn't become nervous hauling now.

I am hoping to ride tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday. I have a cake but not a wedding cake. I am trying to move into my cake kitchen and OMG - they can't get the sink to stop leaking....gaaaaaaaa I am ready to get this over with so I can go back to riding my boy!!
 
#325 ·
Yes Joe, maybe rough, but FUN like Denise said & gotta agree with Celeste, it would be good to have another rider to help!

But you can do it, sounds like you have two good goals to aim for!

I can't wait until I can start putting some trail miles on my boy! He is still a bit jumpy, trying to just ride thru it.

My new endurance saddle has shipped, but I finally get to start my new job Tuesday. It will be strange after 3 yrs of school, but good to get a paycheck again! I should be able to afford to put some gas in the truck so we can hit the trails!! Can't wait:D
 
#328 ·
I rode again in the arena. We are making progress. This gives me a chance to ride when I don't have time for a real trail ride. I figure that I end up spending about an hour with her when I catch her, tack her up, ride 20 - 25 minutes, and put her up. I was going to calculate mileage with the GPS (10 times around the arena is 1/2 mile) but I decided to make me a "Training Log". It will satisfy my need to be OCD about records keeping and keep my trail riding and training in the arena separate. Since I made the new Excel template, I have logged in 4 training sessions. I am too OCD.
 
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