JennBags
HHOSS Wonder Woman
It was almost as though this clinic wasn't meant to happen. I booked it because it was local, and a friend I haven't seen for a while was doing it with her mare - firstly the mare pulls a sick note out of the bag, so my friend had to pull out. Then the rain came, so Coombelands xc got closed. The coach managed to get us booked in at Parwood instead and another friend took up the free space 
Off we toddle and 10 minutes away from the venue I realised my in-car charger hadn't been working so my phone battery had completely died, and with it my sat-nav :eek3: Another horse box pulled out in front of me, so I followed it , praying that they were off to the same place as I had no idea where I was going! Thankfully they were, and I arrived to see the lovely TFF waiting for me, although she couldn't stay long enough to see any of the clinic
also means I have very few pics, sorry everyone.
There had been a crash on the M25, so no one had arrived for the first group, and I was the first to get there of the 2nd group although several others followed me in; we all tacked up and went out on the course, warmed up and the coach started us off on a couple of small warm up fences. She sent us off over some rails where G ducked out to the left as usual :rolleyes3: She told me I was sitting too forward (that's a novelty for me!) So approached it again sitting up a little more and we flew it. Did a few more, including almost running over the coach at the ditch, then headed onto a mound with a drop fence. I decided not to tell the coach that I have a fear of jumping downhill, so gave it a go but ended up with 2 runouts, changed to the smaller palisade and did that no problem. Good, getting my downhill fears sorted.
Then we had a bank, step and a roll top - as we were one stride out I thought "Omg that's MASSIVE" (no more than 80 cm ffs!) But kicked on and flew over it. When I kick on, and stay confident, George really is the most amazing jumper, it feels like you could fly the moon Did a few more that scared me, and then the water which is always good fun for G. Just before we finished my friend got there with her horse and managed to get a short stint on the xc (she was due in the first group but got stuck on the M25), G recognised her horse immediately even though we haven't met since August last year!
Back to the lorry for a spot of lunch then back up for the sj. Had been hoping the horse flies would disappear on the surface but sadly not. Did a few individual fences then put a few together. Just as I was about to jump the course, my friend appeared with her phone....
Off we toddle and 10 minutes away from the venue I realised my in-car charger hadn't been working so my phone battery had completely died, and with it my sat-nav :eek3: Another horse box pulled out in front of me, so I followed it , praying that they were off to the same place as I had no idea where I was going! Thankfully they were, and I arrived to see the lovely TFF waiting for me, although she couldn't stay long enough to see any of the clinic
also means I have very few pics, sorry everyone.There had been a crash on the M25, so no one had arrived for the first group, and I was the first to get there of the 2nd group although several others followed me in; we all tacked up and went out on the course, warmed up and the coach started us off on a couple of small warm up fences. She sent us off over some rails where G ducked out to the left as usual :rolleyes3: She told me I was sitting too forward (that's a novelty for me!) So approached it again sitting up a little more and we flew it. Did a few more, including almost running over the coach at the ditch, then headed onto a mound with a drop fence. I decided not to tell the coach that I have a fear of jumping downhill, so gave it a go but ended up with 2 runouts, changed to the smaller palisade and did that no problem. Good, getting my downhill fears sorted.
Then we had a bank, step and a roll top - as we were one stride out I thought "Omg that's MASSIVE" (no more than 80 cm ffs!) But kicked on and flew over it. When I kick on, and stay confident, George really is the most amazing jumper, it feels like you could fly the moon
Did a few more that scared me, and then the water which is always good fun for G. Just before we finished my friend got there with her horse and managed to get a short stint on the xc (she was due in the first group but got stuck on the M25), G recognised her horse immediately even though we haven't met since August last year!Back to the lorry for a spot of lunch then back up for the sj. Had been hoping the horse flies would disappear on the surface but sadly not. Did a few individual fences then put a few together. Just as I was about to jump the course, my friend appeared with her phone....
Thankfully no pics of that, I hopped back on, did it, cleared f4 them got to f5 where this happened 
