Happy New Year and wishing Happy Trails, Healthy Horses and Riders for 2013. If you are new to the forum or to logging miles - join right in and tell us how many miles you and your trail buddy rode. Some of us are using Garmins/GPS's and some are using the GPS on their phones. We'd love to see pictures of where you have rode and hear your stories!!!
Just wishing a Happy New Year to all you trail riders. Hoping you have great times out there & stay safe while enjoying your horse & the countryside. Good luck with attaining your goals. Good health to all.
We started off the new year with a midnight ride. Very fun! I also went for a short ride this afternoon to get started on those 2013 miles ...
Miles to date: 2.79
Miles to go: 997 + :lol:
Way to go TheOtherHorse - wish I could have got out today but it is freaking raining. LOL I will have to wait til this weekend to start my happy trails!
I had been hoping to get out today for a quick jaunt around the property, but the gale force wind and snow quickly made me rethink that idea!!
Maybe tomorrow, if I get the errands I need done before dark (but 2 of them involve government offices.. so being done before dark is questionable!!). :think:
I have been reading last years thread and I think I might join this one to help encourage me to go out more.
I can't get to actual trails due to lack of transport but I do ride along the roads and I plan to go out for the first time this year today. Hopefully I'll have some pictures etc later today.
I just redid some riding logs for some folks so if you would like a excell log to track miles send me your email address in a PM. I have one for two horses with date, distance, speed and location of ride and one for one horse that is just date, distance.
Ok I nearly died in the heat today but it was still fun. I would say we trotted about a third of the ride and walked the rest, still building fitness but we got 3.85 miles yay.
Sammy pre-ride ready to go
First scarey part of the ride. The narrow part ahead in the photo with a ditch on either side and I have to cross the road just further up.
The second scarey part, I got sammy to cross for the second time today without me having to get off due to cars.
A side road I decided to inspect cause we haven't been down there. Didn't make it to the end though.
DW doesn't like cold weather.....next weekend we expect a high around 40....I keep telling her that's spring time weather for Canadians but she's not buying it.....
Today was going to be the day I started logging 2013 miles, but instead I am sick with the flu. Bummer, but at least today I can stand up for a few minutes. I hope to be well enough to go back to work Friday, and maybe be able to ride next week.
Thank you Dawn for the new log, I plan to try it out as soon as my brain gets less mushy...
I hope to join this thread and log my miles in sometime this year.
As of now I do not own a horse. I am hoping that will change sometime in the near future but, as of now, I am looking forward to hear all about your adventures!
Ok I went for another ride today although it was only short. It was meant to be a test ride, apache's first ride out alone since he has come back home.
It started off with him trying to turn back for ages, then I nearly fell off when he spooked. It was going quite good for awhile until we got within a couple hundred metres of home where he decided he just had to get back to sammy. Due to being so worried about sammy he kept tripping in the long grass which kept ripping the reins out of my hands with force. This lead to him taking off and tripping again which made me fall off. I was quite ****** because he took running off home beside the road.
I didn't get back on after I caught him because I was really angry and didn't want to take it out on him. So my ride ended rather badly and I have been encouraging myself to do this since he got back :-x
Anyway I rode 1.86 miles on Apache today.
Sammy: 3.85m Apache:1.86m
Now a picture before our ride. (I didn't realise until after the picture that the saddle had slid back for some reason.)
After spending hours updating my resume this morning, I needed a mental reset. Not sure that Dream enjoyed the leisurely ride through the snow in the same way I did, but it was wonderful! Temp was still a chilly 23, but no wind and the sun was shining, so it felt great.
Haha I know I'm a wimp when it comes to cemetarys and I think it makes it worse that it was in the middle of no where kind of. I always find there eery and I have seen to many scary movies recently lol. Sammy was also having trouble with the road because it was really rocky with nowhere to walk on the side. I'm just lucky Sammy doesn't mind going down the highway before I get to these places.
I would love riding partners I'm always on my own.
LOL stop watching those scary movies!!!! Since I am a genealogist I love going to cemeteries. An old one was was uncovered in the Kisatachie area of Louisiana and a man we rode with last year is who discovered it. It was totally grown over. LOL hoping to ride there this spring.
My 2nd trail ride was past a huge cemetery....good thing they don't scare me - riding at that time was scary enough!
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