I completely understand the feeling. Sometimes I STILL feel that trepidation right before mounting. I (more often than NOT) get on anyway - and each time I do it builds my confidence more and more.
I'm almost 50 and have had my fair share of spills and close calls and tonight - for the first time in YEARS cantered around and around and around and around the arena ( I take lessons outside of riding my own horse) and when I FINALLY stopped I raised both hands over my head and yelled YYYEEEESSSS.... : D
Now I don't do that on MY horse (Yet) - walk / trot for now - but each time it's a little longer and a little stronger - and boy what that does for the rest of my life OUTSIDE of that is simply amazing!
You go girl!
Barbara - KY
--- In haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com, "golden horse" <denny1@...> wrote:
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> I mentioned a little while ago that I have been 'ground bound' I've gone through a stage of not being able to get up there and ride, started off with just a 'glitch' in my wiring I think, then got compounded by pressures of work here.
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> Now the thaw seems to be coming, and we will be living in a sea of mud for a few weeks, so I thought I really had to get over this, like NOW, so yesterday having hitched up my big girls panties, and grabbed Jim to come and help me, I decided that it was time to ride Alto.
>
> I worked him in the pen for a while to get him loosened up, then got Jim to com ein to hold him for me. His mares took that moment to decide to notice that their handsome man was missing and start to run around the paddock screamimg, Jim was suggesting postponing operations for a while, Me, with BGP hitched firmly in place went NO WAY, we are doing this now.
>
> So on I popped, and Alto, like the star he is, kind of looked around and went "what are you doing up there?" so we sat for a minute and chatted, then we walked around for a while, did some turns, some flexes and some back ups, walked round a little more, then hopped off and called it a job well done.
>
> I felt like a million dollars, got to build on that good start, but looking forward to doing more :) And what would a story be without photographic evidence...............so here you are, just bear in mind that my face didn't seem to get the message about the million dollar feeling!
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> http://s211.photobucket.com/albums/bb198/rm185western/Horses/Alto/?action=view¤t=IMG_0474.jpg
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> http://s211.photobucket.com/albums/bb198/rm185western/Horses/Alto/?action=view¤t=IMG_0476.jpg
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> http://s211.photobucket.com/albums/bb198/rm185western/Horses/Alto/?action=view¤t=IMG_0477.jpg
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