Riding early in the morning

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Ok well I'm back to riding two days a week, on my days off
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Thing is in the next few weeks I'll be working on my days off as well! (Work experience, long story really
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Anyway I was thinking of riding in the morning, because it's lighter then than after work (keeping up?!) and I was wondering if anyone else rides before work? I'm talking I'll have to get up at about 6amish - maybe earlier
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so i can ride, then get ready for work for about 9.30. Only about 2/3 times a week.

I'm really quite lazy but I'm loving riding at the moment and want to keep it up as much as I can over the winter!! Last year was ok as I had a floodlit school
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I understand that many of you get up at that time everyday, but I don't so it could be a shock lol! And once I'm up, I love early mornings....it's just getting horizontal!
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Anyone else planning on riding in the morning?
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Me! I get up at 5.45, over to the yard and out riding about 6.30.

Usually get back to the yard about 7.30 - quick change, chuck horse in field and straight to work.

Try to avoid doing anything that involves getting hot and sweaty in the morning (as I go stright to work) - fine to hack out though.
 
Before Dolly went lame, I would ride at least once a week before work. I would be out in the forest by 6.45, and it used to set me up for the day. Cannot wait to start again.
 
We'r up the yard at 6ish, muck out and stuff, ride by 7, back by about 8, turnout and stuff until 8.30, get changed in the tackroom on a nummah cause the floors a bit dirty and bits of hay over it, bit of spray, quick drive and rush to work in an office for 9!! then seeing I have a bit of hay still stuck to my jumper!!
 
Yeah I'll only be hacking - no schooling that's for sure!
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As I said i love early mornings when no one is around, dewy grass etc etc......maybe I should buy a really really loud alarm clock - with no snooze button
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At least CC will be in the field closer to the yard
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Im up at 5.45 on horse no 1 by 6.15 horse no 2 by 7.15 mucked out and home by 8.45 and in work for 9!!!! Its hard work to get up but it is such a great feeling and you then have the evenings to do whatever you want (normally grooming!!! LOL)
 
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We'r up the yard at 6ish, muck out and stuff, ride by 7, back by about 8, turnout and stuff until 8.30, get changed in the tackroom on a nummah cause the floors a bit dirty and bits of hay over it, bit of spray, quick drive and rush to work in an office for 9!! then seeing I have a bit of hay still stuck to my jumper!!

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Wow! Ok, you're my inspiration
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I get up between 5.30am and 6.30am (depends how long i want to ride for!) at the stables for about 6.45, and tacked up and out riding by half seven. I hack, school or lunge (but I don't get sweaty when schooling - tia isn't hard work!) feed and turnout, away from the yard by quarter past nine, and drive straight into work - quick change of clothes there, and I'm good for the day.
 
I rode before work for years. It feels *really* weird for the first week, but if you can stick it out, the second week will be easier & after that it will feel 'normal'.

Get a lumie natural dawn alarm clock - they are fab & when you wake up, you feel as if you're ready for the day rather than being jerked awake in the middle of the night.

I got so used to getting up ridiculously early & feeling rough... once, I got up in the dark (as usual) felt a bit rough (as usual) made my lunch, got into riding things, put my work clothes in a bag, went out to the car, started the engine... & it was 4.30!!! My alarm clock had gone wrong (not the lumie) & I'd done all that & put my watch on without noticing!!
 
I'll remember that - thanks for the tip! if I get rudely awaken (normally by my Mum!) I get really snappy which is no good for riding
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It could give my poor Mum a break lol
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Its nice to hear theres loads of us crazy people riding and doing our horses in the mornings before! People at work look at me strangly thinking I'm odd, as they come waltzing into work all fresh looking! Worse is when your still hot and you can still see your hat imprint mark around your forehead!! Classic! Maybe I need to grow a fringe!
 

I love my bed but even I find it easy to get up on fresh mornings for Winter riding!

When I was riding of a morning I'd be getting up at 6 - 6.30ish to be riding at 7. It's fantastic & once you've been a few times you'll be finding it easier to get up as you'll start adjusting to it. I agree though, it's a bit hard to do the first few mornings
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If it's raining, stay in bed. Otherwise get out there!
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Charlotte_R- Don't get a fringe, it just goes greasy and nasty
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Would love to ride before school, but I would have to either get the bus about 4am, or get my parents to drop me off, which wouldn't happen... plus people at school already think I'm strange cos I have pics of my neddie in my diary etc, whereas they all have pics of celebs and themselves
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I never was one for posing
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Yup.
Wake up 5.45,
Riding by 6.15,
Pony Away for 7,
Shower quickly to leave at 7.20.
All is good in the world of madness
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I do like schooling in the morning, but it usually goes wrong as I can't school in 45 mins, as 5 mins before I have to go we develop a problem. Pip alos has hyperactivity in the morning, honestly!
 
How do you guys ride so early if its still dark at 7am (N.Ireland anyway) do you's have forests and bridle paths, as i only have roads and tacked up waiting for the sun to rise?!
 
I dont hack as dont have any tracks and seem to hit the work traffic! School both every morning, best time as im still half a sleep and seem to stay on more when lil monkey spooks
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I guess by the time I'm tacked up and ready to go it will still be slightly dark, but if I cover her in bright yellow I should be ok! Luckily the roads aren't toooooo busy.......I hope!

Otherwise it'll be back to square 1
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Yep although next week it should be earlier as he will be worked more.
Up at 7
Yard by half past
Ride/lunge/etc
On the walker whilst I muck out
Walk back to the flat for 9
 
That's why I don't do it - to get anywhere we have to go on a busy road through hills and people hoon up and down them. Even covered in hi viz I'd be nervous. And we don't have a school so lucked out on both counts really
 
I used to ride in the dark (can't imagine doing anything so stupid now) but the few drivers around at 5.30 a.m. got used to seeing me, I was hi-vized to the eyebrows and it never seemed to be problem. Even my desperately jumpy mare never really found anything to spook at - too dark for her to see the gremlins. She died 12 years ago and her successor was a headshaker, so could only ever ride first thing or late evenings. Well worth the effort of getting up, particularly in the summer and it's not bad once you get going in the winter.
 
You might struggle in December/January as doesn't get light until about 8am but will be better again in February.

Clocks go back end of this month so I *think* that might give you lighter mornings - have I worked that out correctly?
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I like riding before work, it's a bit of a rush but worth it!
 
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And once I'm up, I love early mornings....it's just getting horizontal!
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You'll already be horizontal if you are lying in bed - it's the getting vertical that's the problem!!
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I shouldn't laugh as I'm dreadful at getting up too. I have my shower, do my hair etc, fling on 'yard' clothes and take work clothes with me to get changed into in the privacy of my own tackroom - unless the wind blows the door open and there I am bearing all to the rest of the yard
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You'll get used to getting up after a while and be ever so thankful of the lie in come summer time!!
 
I make my haynets the night before and put the feed bowls in the tack room ready for the morning.

When I want to ride I get to yard 6.15 at the latest, give small haynet to each (2 horseys) muck out husbands horse, muck out mine, tack mine up hack for 45 mins max, untack, while mine is cooling off, change rug on other horse, feed both, throw out, get changed - be at work between 8.30 and 9am.

Yesterday, I rode one in morning, one at night got home, walked dog, had tea, relaxed, walked dog again at 10pm.
 
i get up at about 5.30 to get there for 5.45,
tack up for 6.20 (have to feed and throw the other 2 out)
ride until 7,
muck them all out,
dash home at 7.30 to start work for 8.30!
have to shower as i work at a hospital and having hay in your hair and smelling like a horse doesnt go down well with the rest of the team(tried it when i was a prereg)
sometimes i am abit crazy and ride two of them and get down there for 5am!

used to be great in summer too when it actually used to be hot and you could ride when it was just pleasant and before the flies were up.
 
Up at 6.
Cycle to horses - the long way up stonking hills to get fit
Ride in the field as no short hacking blocks and no school.
Have an old Pony that takes an hour to eat his meals so no excuse not to ride as have to wait!
Cycle home - shower in in work by 10 to finish at 6.

When the clocks go back it is actually lighter in the mornings for a short while! Hurrah!

Made the decision to give horses January and February off - can't cope with the frozen ground.
 
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