The weather was just beautiful last night so Lu and I went to the arena to play. On the way to the arena we stopped and picked up a friend to play with us. We had a blast and boy can I feel it today! Ouch am I sore.
For whatever reason she wasn’t nearly as soft when I started flexing when I first got on. She’s normally very light so I wasn’t quite sure what the deal was there. I rarely yield her hq under saddle so I decided it was time to get with it and do it. She did fine and only needed tapped a few times but those few times got her a bit wound up. After that any time I’d flex her she thought she needed to yield her hq and wouldn’t relax. This tells me we obviously need to work on this more.
After that we did some follow the fence at the trot. She follows the fence fine (sometimes too close) but I used it more to warm her up and to give me time to post. I’ve got to get this out of shape body somewhat in shape before CA kills me in Nov. On his last DVD he said if you could post for 15 minutes 2 times a day for 5 days……………..bwaaaa haaaa haaa haaa lets start with 5 minute increments and be happy with that.
After that I set up a pylon in the arena and did the clover leaf pattern at a lope. I figured Lu would be a drunken sailor but she did really well. What I found is that when she didn’t go straight – it was because I wasn’t looking far enough ahead to where I wanted to go. Duh I know but sometimes you have to catch yourself doing it. She was better on the right lead which was expected but she didn’t do too badly on the left. Next time I just need to start on that side. After a while I waited for her to lean so we could go the opposite direction she wanted to go. To my surprise she waited for me to give her directions on where we were going.
She got ample rest in the center of the pattern and was very happy to stop when I asked her. She did have difficulties standing still. She was very fidgety and wanted to back up and would flex w/o me asking (that is a nice problem to have I know). I really think she wanted to just drop to the ground. I didn’t want to let her end that way so after she aired up some we did some ORS at the trot. I want her to start rating my seat better then she was. She was tired enough that she reverted back to trying to rub me off on the other horse so I determined if she had enough energy to do that she had enough energy to do what I wanted. Finally when I sat she immediately sucked back and stopped, then flexed (w/o me asking again) and stood in the center of the arena w/o moving. I let her air up for a while and then repeated. After she did it again I dismounted and called it good. She was tired!
I had a blast though and it was just what we both needed!
2 comments:
Sounds like a fun time!
Posting 15 min. twice a day?!?! uh,there's a little thing called work that tends to get in the way.
I do believe you better start training for the November trip. Do the words Boot camp mean anything to you?
Aww boot camp. Yes, Lucy and I both need that (me more so then Lu). I figure we'll just be CA's comical relief. We'll give him lots of reasons to make fun of us the entire week.
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