Endurance Riding

Click The Title Of The Post To Comment And Don’t Forget To”Subscribe to Endurance Riding!” I am really getting sick of this weather. We’ve had weeks now of rain, snow, sleet, and hail. With NO break in the weather. At least one sunny day here and there would be nice.   Today, I experienced another […]

Click The Title Of The Post To Comment And Don’t Forget To”Subscribe to Endurance Riding!” I was about to turn 27. I had grown up riding my entire life, but I had never had a horse of my own. I was in college. In fact, I had just been accepted into the competitive nursing program […]

Click The Title Of The Post To Comment And Don’t Forget To”Subscribe to Endurance Riding!” I didn’t get much sleep last night, but I woke up this morning wanting to ride down into the canyon. I don’t know why… I just wanted to spend time near the river and take some photos. I also just […]

Click The Title Of The Post To Comment And Don’t Forget To”Subscribe to Endurance Riding!” With all this talk of endurance riding and backcountry horse camping, Asali was beginning to wonder who was going to carry all of our gear (she doesn’t realize we’ll actually have a crew on our 100-milers). In fact, she told […]

Click The Title Of The Post To Comment And Don’t Forget To”Subscribe to Endurance Riding!” Today was an insanely frustrating day of training. I almost ended up in tears. I don’t know what happened or what went wrong because Asali was fine when we started out – although she was willing to go out, she […]

Click The Title Of The Post To Comment And Don’t Forget To”Subscribe to Endurance Riding!” After encountering some crazy drivers while riding on the road, I wrote to my local newspaper… below is a letter to the Editor that was printed in Tuesday’s paper: Dear Editor, I am writing because my mom and I were […]

Click The Title Of The Post To Comment And Don’t Forget To”Subscribe to Endurance Riding!” I was in charge of getting the boys ready for school this morning and then dropping them off. I also had to pick them up from school, Declan at noon and then Jakob at 2:15. It’s not that I never […]

Click The Title Of The Post To Comment And Don’t Forget To”Subscribe to Endurance Riding!” Sunday was a full day with the horses. I rode Forest in the round pen, then later ponied him while I rode Asali. Our trainer, Sheri, came up to work with Beauty. I rode her in the arena for about […]

Click The Title Of The Post To Comment And Don’t Forget To”Subscribe to Endurance Riding!” I worked my Appaloosa, Forest, in the round pen. Although I started him under saddle a little over a year ago, I don’t ride him more than twice a week (usually, I pony him), so he needs a lot more […]

Click The Title Of The Post To Comment And Don’t Forget To”Subscribe to Endurance Riding!” Wow! What an amazing ride we had today. Mom had been wanting to go down into the canyon, so last night we mapped it out on the GPS. We took Doon Grade Road to Coutolenc and then connected to Jordan […]