Saturday, May 15, 2010

feel the burn...

in the legs with all this exercise!

we got them in lunchtime ish to stand for the afternoon ... cycled along, gaynor rode back with the benefit of my bareback pad, i just walked!

i rode inthe field this afternoon, that was a bit of a pain as the shimming slipped too much so i got off to sort it out, then when doing the girth back up put the strap through the wrong bit of buckle ... couldn't sort that out had to go back in and take it all off..

so rode her back along to the field, then walked back pushing the bike which had the saddle balanced on it.

rode bitless.... easier than the argument about the bit

maybe she's gone off this particular bit? Myler hanging cheek. i could go back to the myler combi for a while, i suppose, see if she's happier with that in? if she'll take it.

it wasn't, by the way, anything to do with her teeth! it's her head...

3 comments:

Jean said...

My goodness, how we indulge our horses! Sounds like a lot of work for just a little riding. But just think how fit you will be!

Re: Tucker's bandage. I put the diaper on inside out so the absorbent material in it would not draw all the wet out of the Animalintex. I've been using the duct tape all along, but without the diaper, it wears through pretty quickly. We'll see how the inside out diaper works.

Claire said...

jean, we all usually have diaper normal way round, haven't had a problem with drawing the wet out of the animalintex.... the backing on the animalintex would prevent that anyway? also, of course, means the diaper fits nicely on the hoof and can be fastened nicely round the fetlock...

trudi said...

treeless cycling...could be the next big thing :-)