Best Day: I reached a milestone with my horse today and rode her on the trail alone for 1 and 1/2 hours. I can't believe it took me over a year to be able to do that. I live in a big city and the trail in a my city isn't so nice. It's been one scary thing to me.
There's always construction going on, so theres always trucks and bulldozers and sometimes even cranes. There's dogs on chains lunging at us and children running towards us. There's huge freeways and tunnels and streets to pass under. Anyway I always go out with someone or I only ride about 10 minutes on the trail before turning back. Today I took her out alone and made her move forward past all the scary stuff. She did so well.
Worst day: Later in the day I came back to the stable to have a lesson on her and I felt I was on a totally different horse. I was trying to learn how to open and shut a gate while riding her and she fought me tooth and nail. We were spinning, backing up fast, spooking at everything. My instructor was practically yelling at me. Finally she told me to get off and she got on her to show me how its done. She had the same problem with her!!! It sure look pretty scary from the ground.
So I had my best riding day and my worst riding day on the SAME DAY, SAME HORSE. Go figure.
There's always construction going on, so theres always trucks and bulldozers and sometimes even cranes. There's dogs on chains lunging at us and children running towards us. There's huge freeways and tunnels and streets to pass under. Anyway I always go out with someone or I only ride about 10 minutes on the trail before turning back. Today I took her out alone and made her move forward past all the scary stuff. She did so well.
Worst day: Later in the day I came back to the stable to have a lesson on her and I felt I was on a totally different horse. I was trying to learn how to open and shut a gate while riding her and she fought me tooth and nail. We were spinning, backing up fast, spooking at everything. My instructor was practically yelling at me. Finally she told me to get off and she got on her to show me how its done. She had the same problem with her!!! It sure look pretty scary from the ground.
So I had my best riding day and my worst riding day on the SAME DAY, SAME HORSE. Go figure.