Personal Best!
Got a personal best at Park run today, knocked 8 seconds off my last one! Still didn’t manage to run the whole thing but who cares! Another lady and I were playing tag, she’d walk and I’d overtake her and then I’d walk and she’d over take me,we did that all the way round! I also had Eric behind me this week, last week no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t catch him, this week our roles were reversed and he complained to me at the end that I was just that bit too far in from to catch but he’d been using me as a target!
I am still trying to convince Barney that he can do it, he doesn’t have to run it, fast walking is fine but getting him there is the problem! We did do a very fast walk around the field this morning. The hill is a killer whichever way round you go! Hopefully now he’s done it the once I can get him out a bit more often. We also need to get out and run abit more especially now the light mornings are here.
Badminton!
Would I like to go to Badminton Horse trials? That was the question I was asked months and months ago. There was an ulterior motive it has to be said, I am the proud owner of a motor home, making camping more luxiorius and I know full well that was the reason I was asked!
Now I’m definitely no expert when it comes to horses but it’s a weekend away so off we went on Friday morning, loaded up with food and drink for a long weekend. Arriving at Badminton we found our pitch with texted instructions on where the car keys were if we needed to move it. Parking the van up, our first job was to erect the awning. As we’ve only had it a short while we’ve only put the awning up twice, so erecting it was always going to be a bit of a challenge! Even so we did it reasonably quickly!
Friday is dressage day so we then wandered off into the Horse trials to watch the last 10 or so compete. Some were very good others weren’t and I couldnt actually tell you how they make the horses do it! I think I got the mist of it!
Back at camp we met up with the others, Pimms o’clock time! Far too much food
was consumed, including chips and dips, chicken, salad and cheesy potatoes. I by this time had moved on to lager.
Didnt sleep particularly well, despite being in the ‘quiet’ field there was a generator going somewhere and a dog barking. I think it was probably left in a van or lorry whilst it’s owners were sociallising. It barked until 2.30!
Saturday is Cross Country day, we set off with our packed lunch and walked the course backwards.
It is really impressive the riding and jumping that goes on.
Having walked the whole course we headed into the arena and watched as the last twenty or so came in. There was a couple of hairy moments and one rider came a total guttser just outside the arena. The comment that came out the next day was that she’d broken some ribs and her face wasn’t photo ready!
Sunday morning was wet but we headed out and walked the Cross country course again in peace and quiet. As we were leaving after the showjumping we went back to the camp, packed the van away and had lunch. We watched the top 20 riders compete in the showjumping. It was blisteringly hot in the arena and you can hear a pin drop whilst they are jumping. The biggest cheer of the day was for Ben Hobday who was has made a remarkable recovery from cancer in the last year, it was a very emotional moment!
i got home tired and sun burnt, would I go again? Yes but next time I’ll do some homework before hand so I know who is who and what is happening!
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