Anyone else mad enough to ride this morning?

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So forced myself to get up early to ride (always ride early on a sunday) and went out to be met with simply awful weather! Feeling sorry for myself but determined to ride still (it is about a 50/60 mile round trip)

I got to the yard to find nearly flooded fields, a very much overflowing pond next to the arena, and a river flowing through the yard! Poor horse wondered what had hit her as i dragged her from her nice warm stable, through the river and into the school.

Thankfully it wasn't too wet in there and we had a fairly good schooling sesh as it had mostly stopped raining too hard by then. Needless to say she wasn't too bothered about not going out in the field today :p

Only one other person was there this morning (full livery yard), and she also braved the rain and rivers to take horse on few laps of the yard in hand (he is injured). :D

Any one else bothered riding today? :rolleyes:
 
Yep it was blowing a gale and peeing down but I was determined...well until I got half way down the bridleway at which point sanity prevailed and we turned around and cantered home through the puddles like a child! Must have been out ten mins tops! :-D
 
Yep..at 7am & rain eased off after a bit. Also cleaned my tack thoroughly after did my weeks feeds & nets & cleaned hens out so felt quite smug!
 
yep another mad one here got cold and wet this morning :(

i have one recovering from a tendon injury from last year and he's coming back into work slowly and up to 35mins per day :D of road work so i have a "could be worse tomorrow" way of thinking with him as i don't want to give him more than one day off per week

i admit to chucking a few mints a the other one and not even getting him out of the field ,he doesn't need to be fit for anything really and i can leave him a few months and get on and he'll be fine so its easy to just leave him when the weather is not nice :o
 
I hacked to my work, did a dressage test then hacked home again. we were both drenched and rather bedraggled next to everyone else who had transport but im super proud of her since we got 62.60% on her first ever test (not bad for a 20odd year old whos only hacked since she was backed :D )
 
I had planned to ride today however I realised when I got to the yard i forgot my hat :eek: !

Very annoyed with myself as it's now raining very heavily when I could have ridden in the dry!

Not a case if nipping back to get it as yard is 20 minutes away :(
 
Yup i did, went for a nice long hack in the blazing sunshine!! Been an amazing day here. Rain due back tomorrow though so thought I'd make the most of it. Should really go cut the grass now...
 
No way! I hacked Friday afternoon and got caught for an hours worth of torrential (inch) of rain :( after leaving yard in sunshine. Did hack yesterday to stretch legs but I have cleaned all the cardboard tack from Friday's mishap!:) So horses happy and dry and me, well I am about to do evening stables and get soaked again....!!!
 
yes went for a hack but it's not raining here just cold and windy. we had pretty much non stop rain until last thursday - last few days have been quite dry and fields are drying out - there is hope!
 
You would need to be suicidal to ride near us - the gusts this morning took friends field shelter nearly into river... no riding for any of us, branches down everywhere.

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Granted it doesn't seem quite as extreme over here but all the same it's bleddy windy!
Got up early and had a pre-breakfast ride in the rather exposed field. Pony was very good to be fair and wasn't bothered by flapping wrapping plastic though he did pull a face when I asked him to leg yield against the gale - poor sod's tail was practically horizontal in the breeze :o
 
Gave riding a miss - leaving that to the hardy. Went to an open day at Bryerley Springs as kids wanted to meet the real 'Joey' from Warhorse film. Spent money I shouldn't have on the horsey car boot sale :rolleyes:
 
I planned to, although I was tight for time (had less than an hour before pilates class). I got there, though and no ponies to be seen. Eventually caught sight of a mealy muzzle poking out of their stable (open in the field). I decided then to just continue with the clean-out of the feed room. You know it's bad when an exmoor won't come out for his breakfast! If I'd had more time, he would have been dragged out, though.
 
I have weekly lessons so yes! And there were plenty of us too, too many to crowd into the small indoor school for the whole hour, so we splashed about in the gloopy sand school for the second half of the lesson.

The horses actually seemed to enjoy it, after some initial 'I'm not coming out of my dry stable' protests, the pony I was riding was doing a beautiful floaty trot to keep her princess toes out of the sand :D and I was pretending I was riding on a beach :o

It helps that it wasn't actually raining that much while we were riding. Unfortunately the school is SO wet the Bank Holiday show is likely to be cancelled next week :(

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