So how long have you been riding?

[Hovis_and_SidsMum]

Whenever there's posts asking for advice i know I often don't post as I feel I don't know enough to be really useful as I've not been riding that long. So because I'm nosey I'm interested in how long on average we've all been riding on here.

 

[scotsmare]

Have now been riding for a rather scary 21 years.....

 

[louisevictoria]

OMG have just realised its now over 20 years for me

 

[lucie1984]

I first sat on a pony aged 4 so that something like 20 years!, i found the pictures from it last night, very amusing!

 

[ladyt25]

Oh dear, just realised I have been riding now for about 25 / 26 years (makes me feel rather old!)

 

[JS65]

I've been riding for 38yrs

 

[Ezme]

11 years for me!

 

[JM07]

43 years!!!!!

 

[helenhorse]

I have been riding all my life..except the first year when i couldnt even walk my self hehe!!

 

[CracklinRosie]

About 35 years!!! OMG now I feel old.

 

[fattymare]

Only 12 years - didn't learn til I was 19

 

[sugarnspice]

8 years this October.

 

[Colleen_Miss_Tom]

JMO7 *whispers "what age are you " ?*

I took you for younger , not that your old or older .... *backs out of the room and keeps digging *


23 years .

 

[minerva]

first ponies at 5, and stopped at 20 when i moved to london, took it up again properly about 6 years ago

( i am 38) and dont ever want to stop again, the whole time i wasnt riding i was always bombing up motorways at weekends to snatch an hour or so on friends horses - i missed them so much

 

[Kenzo]

OMG just realised I've been riding for 22 years, I feel old!

 

[Lyndz]

27 years now, quite scary when i think about it! !st sat on a pony when i was 4!

 

[JM07]

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JMO7 *whispers "what age are you " ?*

I took you for younger , not that your old or older .... *backs out of the room and keeps digging *




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21 x 2 + 5.....

 

[Faro]

About 30 years (must have begun when I was about 10) but with a break of about 5 years in my late teens/early 20s.

It wasn't until my mid 20's though, when I bought my first horse, that I became anything more than a once a week riding school rider. I just hope that in all that time that my riding has actually got a lot better!

 

[Libbyn1982]

I've been riding 19 years properly with a 2 year break in the middle - big mistake!!!!!

 

[wormhugs]

23 years for me, 18 of them with the same horse!

 

[Rowreach]

41 years. Have just been doing a roll-call of all the horses I have owned over the years - and am just backing the next one!

 

[MerryMaker]

18 years

 

[Hovis_and_SidsMum]

OMG you're all real veterans of the saddle! I've only been riding about 3 years (ish) after riding a little bit when i was younger and then hacking on holidays and such which I don't count!

 

[LCobby]

Ive been riding for almost 50 years

 

[Hovis_and_SidsMum]

Crikey did you all start when you were two years old or do you keep portraits in the attic because most of you (from piccies) do not look old enough to have been riding as long as all this?!!

 

[hellybelly6]

27 years.

I have been a groom and worked in a saddlery.

Horse-therapy.

 

[Dressagebabe]

I had my first riding lesson when I was 3yrs which to answer your question would mean I have been riding 38yrs but I would say I have been riding correctly with experience under my belt for the past 20yrs - how old I feel now!

 

[Rachel_M]

On and off for twenty years.

 

[L00bey]

11 years

 

[hellspells]

18years - my 5th Birthday present from my Mum - I'd been poinitng a try to get to ponies since I was old enough to know what they were - she still regrets that birthday present