kick_On
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well finally got home!!! wow what a weekend. Travelled up to Lincoln for RC champs from rural gloucestershire only took 3 1/2 hours, brilliant going and i was passenger in lorry - luxery for me. Got there and very different for last year really friendly folks on gate, lovely atmosphere. Set up camp with our Rc team members for Rural Rider and settled horses in, then before Bbq, got the men to set up long arena to prastice in. Mmmmm perhaps we should given them help, as we got down there, mmm not square, nor letters in right place, but with a bit of gentle chatting-sorted
, then after practising put ggs away and got on with main event of drinking!!!!! well what a bunch of light weights........ it ended up with me and my mate drink a few glasses of wines and bottle of pimms before 12 midnight !!!! Forgot camping, NO loos!!! NO un-suite!!!! NOW i remember why i don't camp any more
Woke up bright and NOT breezey at stupid o'clock and nerves kicked in badly so spent then next 2hrs finding a hedge to be ill in
Whilst plaiting, thinking i'll do next plait THEN be ill, NO i can cope do another plait!! etc.......
Got on board and nerves settled but still thinking i can't do sitting trot i'll be ill. Warm up went horribly wrong!!! folks just not getting it right so fingers crossed for test.
Well blow me down!!! test went ok, as we left test folks were a bit unhappy, feeling we could've done better and my pairs partner was just not speaking!!! 9 months of training OMG to come last !! Is what we were ALL thinking, but all our supporters and trainer were saying 'Nar it was fine, it looked good and smooth WELL DONE'.
Went back to stables and presented our trainer with picture montage of her competeing at Blair 2** jumping the water - brilliant set of image and she was so shocked she couldn't speak
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Well then had to wait a couple of hours to ride our pairs test, knowing that RR results takes hours (WHY!!!!???)
So pulled gg out and they were not impressed for their warm-up before pairs. Started to warm and that also was not happening, got rode off with by another pair!!!
and then got told our start time had changed to go in. Original we were 2nd on but 1st pair pulled had out so we were on first, o well benchmarking test!. Again test went smoothy but not brilliantly, but after we left arena to whooping and clapping all our supporter were shouting that we had come 2nd at RR - OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2nd
brilliant first time we had ever done this kind of test and we came 2nd at nationals!!!! and team that won, won last year so what a result and with mounted presentation - YEAH
Then we had to long only wait for pairs results - 4hrs!!!!!- well we came =9th so WOW placed aswell, brilliant.
But why o why does it that 4hrs to get a result
, it really does take edge of doing well, cos all you want to do is go home.
But on reflection what a weekend and we were sure that if we hadn't of been first in arena on pairs we would have been much higher, o well still pretty good weekend - thanks for reading - images going up in P-G soon but here's a one of my fav ones
Woke up bright and NOT breezey at stupid o'clock and nerves kicked in badly so spent then next 2hrs finding a hedge to be ill in
Got on board and nerves settled but still thinking i can't do sitting trot i'll be ill. Warm up went horribly wrong!!! folks just not getting it right so fingers crossed for test.
Well blow me down!!! test went ok, as we left test folks were a bit unhappy, feeling we could've done better and my pairs partner was just not speaking!!! 9 months of training OMG to come last !! Is what we were ALL thinking, but all our supporters and trainer were saying 'Nar it was fine, it looked good and smooth WELL DONE'.
Went back to stables and presented our trainer with picture montage of her competeing at Blair 2** jumping the water - brilliant set of image and she was so shocked she couldn't speak
Well then had to wait a couple of hours to ride our pairs test, knowing that RR results takes hours (WHY!!!!???)
So pulled gg out and they were not impressed for their warm-up before pairs. Started to warm and that also was not happening, got rode off with by another pair!!!
Then we had to long only wait for pairs results - 4hrs!!!!!- well we came =9th so WOW placed aswell, brilliant.
But why o why does it that 4hrs to get a result
But on reflection what a weekend and we were sure that if we hadn't of been first in arena on pairs we would have been much higher, o well still pretty good weekend - thanks for reading - images going up in P-G soon but here's a one of my fav ones
