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| I so wished we lived closer together. I would love to ride with you!
I am chomping at the bit to ride consistently. I have managed it all winter until the end of this month. The past two weeks I rode once. I am miserable.
My main guy is getting swam at least-so he doesn't loose any conditioning.
The more horses I ride- and the more I am in the saddle the happier I am! Although...I am not winning yet...hopefully one day soon. |
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Location: Dearing, GA | magic gunsmoke - 2014-02-13 7:22 PM
I so wished we lived closer together. I would love to ride with you!
I am chomping at the bit to ride consistently. I have managed it all winter until the end of this month. The past two weeks I rode once. I am miserable.
My main guy is getting swam at least-so he doesn't loose any conditioning.
The more horses I ride- and the more I am in the saddle the happier I am! Although...I am not winning yet...hopefully one day soon.
Yeah at least your horse is being swam! My horse is just eating and is busy not developing muscle haha. I have some vacation time to use soon... where in KY are you? |
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| My goodness I WANT to ride. I haven't ridden since Nov and that was only to sort some cattle. Its been so nasty here. We had a huge snow storm so 2 FEET of snow everywhere. 3 days later most of melted away so now all we have is soupy icky MUD. No covered area to at least get on a horse so I remember how to ride! lol |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | The reason my young ones got the winter off is because if I can't ride them consistently, there's no point. I don't have a place to go when it's raining or ice on the ground or 20 degrees with a 350 mph wind. Usually it's not as bad as it's been this year, but I haven't ridden anything except my gelding since November. Hopefully, that will be changing soon. |
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 I hate cooking and cleaning
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Location: Jersey Girl | Warmer weather and daylight. I completely lose my motivation once the time changes. |
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I Need a Xanax!
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| Esther - 2014-02-13 1:13 PM
My motivation came back after I got rid of the horse I wasn't motivated to ride!
I had a horse who had all of the talent in the world but that I just didn't trust and I had zero motivation to ride. I think that subconsiously I knew this wasn't going to work even though I kept making excuses for him. I traded him off for a less talented, bigger hearted and more fun to ride horse. Instantly, my motivation was back! Lesson learned for me.
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Location: NE Texas | Esther - 2014-02-13 1:13 PM My motivation came back after I got rid of the horse I wasn't motivated to ride!
I had a horse who had all of the talent in the world but that I just didn't trust and I had zero motivation to ride. I think that subconsiously I knew this wasn't going to work even though I kept making excuses for him. I traded him off for a less talented, bigger hearted and more fun to ride horse. Instantly, my motivation was back! Lesson learned for me.
GREAT answer, Ethel!!! This does make a huge difference when you are riding something you look forward to saddling up. I'm sooooo looking forward to being able to ride consistently. Got a new saddle and get to test it out this weekend and cannot wait! |
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| Try mixing up your riding. I was getting bored and didnt want to ride that much, so I looked up different exercises for barrel horses and reining horses. I found some new exercises and tried them out. Now I cant wait to get home and ride! Challenging your mind and your horse makes it fun again. Plus you would be surprised where your weaknesses are with new routines. |
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