Horses, Trainers, and boots.... Oh my!
Sunday I had a lesson, not with the team, but with Deb. I had to ride at her barn, because Gary's farm is covered in a nice layer of ice, so Bonfire is getting off way to easily. Although I did go visit/feed him on Sunday, and he was very happy to see me, and he got his spring shots and his coggins test yesterday, so he's probably none too happy about that.
My lesson was pretty bad, I was about to say that it was okay... but it wasn't at all. It started at home when I went to put on the tall boots that I've been ridding in for years, and the soles started breaking off in chunks... which made me switch to a pair of dress boots that I got over the summer, and still haven't used because they are so serverly painful, because they need to be broken in. I wore those boots until a few minutes into my riding I couldn't take it anymore, and Deb stopped the lesson so I could get different boots out of the trunk. I looked stupid in dark black pants, and tall tan boot stockings with small paddock boots, but I wasn't in pain, so it was worth it.
I lessoned on a horse named George, He is a big (canadian?) warmblood, He's almost 17hh, which at first was scary because I thought he was going to be a really bad horse, but he wasn't. As a matter of fact the reason Deb had me ride him was because he is very sensitive to the hand and has no go. So I had to really kick him to get him going. She told me this is what riding the IHSA horses is going to be like, and I have to learn to make it look pretty.
Which I didn't. lol. I'm so out of shape that I was bouncing around all over the place and it didn't help the the dress boots were so hard to get on and off that just getting them on and off was exhausting. So I didn't look very pretty riding because I'm so out of shape, but I'll get back into shape, hopefully sooner rather than later.
Nothing extraordinary happened in the lesson. But I'm going home to ride George today so I can get in another ride before my lesson on Thursday, and the team show on Saturday.
I'm almost positive I'm placed in a level that lets me jump, Because one of the girls told me that I was going to be doing just the flat class, and they'll enter me in the jumping once I take a few more lessons with them, and get a little bit more used to the horses. Which is all fine with me. :-) [Honestly though, I've always placed better in jumping then flat.] But really I'm just there to have fun. Once I get in better shape I'll be fine, but until then I honestly don't expect to place.
Also, lucky for me, my Mom is breaking in those uncomfortable boots for me, because she is a smaller show size, so they're nor uncomfortable for her. And my old boots are being resoled by Thursday so I should have them to show on Saturday! Yey!
My lesson was pretty bad, I was about to say that it was okay... but it wasn't at all. It started at home when I went to put on the tall boots that I've been ridding in for years, and the soles started breaking off in chunks... which made me switch to a pair of dress boots that I got over the summer, and still haven't used because they are so serverly painful, because they need to be broken in. I wore those boots until a few minutes into my riding I couldn't take it anymore, and Deb stopped the lesson so I could get different boots out of the trunk. I looked stupid in dark black pants, and tall tan boot stockings with small paddock boots, but I wasn't in pain, so it was worth it.
I lessoned on a horse named George, He is a big (canadian?) warmblood, He's almost 17hh, which at first was scary because I thought he was going to be a really bad horse, but he wasn't. As a matter of fact the reason Deb had me ride him was because he is very sensitive to the hand and has no go. So I had to really kick him to get him going. She told me this is what riding the IHSA horses is going to be like, and I have to learn to make it look pretty.
Which I didn't. lol. I'm so out of shape that I was bouncing around all over the place and it didn't help the the dress boots were so hard to get on and off that just getting them on and off was exhausting. So I didn't look very pretty riding because I'm so out of shape, but I'll get back into shape, hopefully sooner rather than later.
Nothing extraordinary happened in the lesson. But I'm going home to ride George today so I can get in another ride before my lesson on Thursday, and the team show on Saturday.
I'm almost positive I'm placed in a level that lets me jump, Because one of the girls told me that I was going to be doing just the flat class, and they'll enter me in the jumping once I take a few more lessons with them, and get a little bit more used to the horses. Which is all fine with me. :-) [Honestly though, I've always placed better in jumping then flat.] But really I'm just there to have fun. Once I get in better shape I'll be fine, but until then I honestly don't expect to place.
Also, lucky for me, my Mom is breaking in those uncomfortable boots for me, because she is a smaller show size, so they're nor uncomfortable for her. And my old boots are being resoled by Thursday so I should have them to show on Saturday! Yey!