I just freaking love Lexington!
We’ve had a good track record with karma here, and it certainly continued today. We had a pleasant drive down (although there is some bad tire juju in our camp; my poor student Mel, who’d had several breakdowns in a row, passed her bad moo onto my student Francine, who had to change a flat on the side of 81 today), the weather dropped 10 degrees, and all the horses worked like superstars. And then we had margaritas. This is the life, people!
Tres was, to no one’s surprise, his usual perfect self. Little Landon shed his first-show-jitters to hack around the Horse Center like he owned the place, even when a baby Friesian used him as a gutter bumper. My students all rode like superstars, especially Virginia, who had a HUGE ah-hah on her scaredey-cat Roadie and is gonna nail it tomorrow, I just know it. And Ella finished up the day with a little lope around, as she doesn’t show ’til Saturday.
This is a much bigger, more prestigious show than the Ride for Life, and we all look like we belong. Well, I have a terrible farmers’ tan, so maybe I look like a dork, but at least my students all look like THEY belong.
As it turns out, my scooter angst was all for naught, as management does not permit motorized vehicles on The Epic Hill anyway, so there you go. Eventing Nation’s Coren suggested I go forth on the roller skate idea, which should tell you that Coren has never seen me attempt to walk across a smooth surface without bumbling over something. There’s a reason I ride dressage; the grace is the horse’s responsibility, I just have to steer.
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I did, however, bring my bike for the non-hilly parts of the weekend, and the rest I’ll just suck up, and hopefully develop a shapely bottom, something that, as a white girl from Illinois, I’ve never possessed in my life. A girl can dream, right?
Until then, we have an awesomely leisurely start tomorrow—first rider up at 9! But then other than one at 10:30, all nine remaining rides are between 11 and 1:30. I’m trying to see it all as a chance to spend time running around in the sun up and down hills, thus working on both my tan and my butt at the same time.
This is gonna be great!!
