I DID IT. I DID IT. I DID IT! I JUMPED A COURSE. Time to open that bottle of wine and celebrate! This Monday’s lesson my coach simply focused on jumping. I knew it was coming all day. I even thought about it at work. I was calm, cool, and collected all day until I …
Category: December 2017
Oh, SNAP!
Show season 2017 was fast approaching, actually it was exactly one week away. Windsor Spring was that following Wednesday. I had busted my ass all winter long, I was ready. I was ready to have my first full summer of showing. I was so excited, but also, so nervous. I had worked all winter in …
It’s going down… I’m yelling timberrr.
Taking it wayyy back. 3 years way back. To my very first broken bone incident. September 2014; I broke my back. Well, proper medical terms, I had a traumatic wedge compression break in my lower back. I broke the ends of the vertebrae and from the impact of the fall they compressed down. When I …
Monday
Monday is lesson day. Monday is the day I get my ass handed to me. And this past Monday wasn’t any different. It was going to be my first jumping lesson since my fall, since the fall where I broke my humerus bone... When I was doing a gymnastic line. And…. my coach sets a …
The Nervous Equestrian
2018. Another year soon approaching. Another year were we set (usually unrealistic) resolutions and hope we meet them. I am no different than the average joe. I make resolutions every year; I’m going to lose weight, I’m going to actually use that gym membership, I’m going to do whatever it is I need to do …