paddi22
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Just wondering how people find their eventers feeling coming close to the end of the season. I have an older eventer and he is coming out of the season feeling a bit flat and unmotivated in himself. he's totally lost his sparkle and cheekiness to pull into fences. We did a full season with events every two weeks, we started very easy at the lowest level and then moved up two levels to trickier courses. I don't know if his flatness is just due to needing a break, or if the higher levels are too much of a push for him mentally, or if physicaly its just too much for him as he is 16.
Its the first full harder season he has done (he always has gotten random injuries that cut us short the last few years). Before that we just messed around tiny courses for a few years to school. This is the first year he has really been challenged mentally and physically.
My other eventer is a baby just starting out, but she's absolutely thrived on everything thrown at her and has finished the season still fighting raring to go, but I know she's a younger body! I had assumed she's be mentally wrecked cause everything got thrown at her this year. It just threw me as I thought she'd be the tired one, not him (as he knows his job)
So just curious what state mentally and physically other people find their eventers finishing a full season (and doing it fulltime, not the odd one)
Its the first full harder season he has done (he always has gotten random injuries that cut us short the last few years). Before that we just messed around tiny courses for a few years to school. This is the first year he has really been challenged mentally and physically.
My other eventer is a baby just starting out, but she's absolutely thrived on everything thrown at her and has finished the season still fighting raring to go, but I know she's a younger body! I had assumed she's be mentally wrecked cause everything got thrown at her this year. It just threw me as I thought she'd be the tired one, not him (as he knows his job)
So just curious what state mentally and physically other people find their eventers finishing a full season (and doing it fulltime, not the odd one)
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