What's your riding routine?

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Hi everyone!

I'm curious to know - what's your riding routine?

Do you ride daily, just at weekends?

Do you ride in an arena mostly, or hack out more than stay in an arena?

C xo
 
I hack out more than stay in an arena with one horse as I have 100% confidence in her but the other stays in a makeshift arena in the field as we are building our confidence together and hacking is up rough ground and up hills or on the road.
The hacker has just been put on a 6 week program so will be ridden 4 times a week (although we have been sporadic this year).
The other one is ridden once through week in a lesson and once at weekend IF I can get someone to come so I have someone on ground.
 
Hack around 3 times a week, lesson on one day and often an in-hand session on another day. YO hacks him once a week. Hacking not great at the moment as the ground is so wet so we are sticking to the roads more than usual. I normally hack alone.
 
Flatwork twice a week, polework/jumping once or twice a week, lunging once a week, and attempt to do some hacking on the weekends if I find someone to go with me as the horse isnt the best out by himself. We are just sticking to the fields though for while we can use them as they are hilly so good for strengthening work.
 
I have 2 horses so I am riding at least one a day through the winter mainly hacking with a few schooling days through the week, during the better weather months I will ride both of them most days and I will do a bit more schooling depending on what's shows they will be doing.
 
This time of year I hack both weekend mornings and try to do one morning before work a week. I don't school my 22yr old anymore.

When the evenings are light again I'll probably ride at least two evenings a week as well as weekends.
 
6 day exercise per week, one day off - 3 road hacks, usually, but not always, with a friend, one schooling session, one lunge and one more session either school or hack depending on daylight/work. We ride on the farm ride at the yard if it is foggy or icy or we're losing the daylight but I'm a bit of a wuss and feel safer on the roads, it isn't so exciting!
 
Lesson on a wed pm, hack both weekend days, lunge session/in hand work once a week, roll on spring-then back to 6 days a week which is usually one lesson, 2schooling sessions, one short hack and two long hacks per week
 
We have three horses, they all get ridden/worked everyday (one is partially broken atm).

They get hacked/beach etc any day it is possible, in company and alone, but this time of year they do a fair bit in the arena.
 
I hack out alone every other day usually, but with my shift work and this rubbish weather/light has been more like every 2- 3. Occasionaly if I'm off on a weekend I hack with another person at my yard and very occasionally if I'm pressed for time I ride in a paddock here. Otherwise I'm solo hacking 1 to 6 hours, depending on how far I go.
 
At this time of year, I'm stuck riding in the school after work (averge between 2-4 times a week) and hack both days at the weekend for usually a minimum of an hour.

As soon as the lighter evenings come we'll be out hacking 5-6 times a week for much longer/further rides and hopefully very little time in the school.

We mainly hack alone, as there aren't many people on my yard that enjoy hacking so much.
 
Ridden 6 days a week. Mostly hacking. One lesson or session in school. One days hunting or perhaps a dressage/sj thing. Day off after hunting or a Monday morning if not feeling the love at 5.45 a.m when the alarm goes!!
 
Monday - day off
Tuesday - schooling including polework
Wednesday - lunge or long rein, sometimes with poles
Thursday - lesson
Friday - day off
Saturday - hack out
SUnday - hack out
 
Varies depending on time of year and general aims / energy levels!

I find winter tough to get enough work in. Usually I've been able to keep my horse ticking over sufficiently on 2 school (1 me, 1 a trainer), 1 lunge, 2 hacks (one of which longer) but this winter for various reasons I've tried to get away with 2 school, 2 short hack and 1 long hack. It not cutting it unfortunately to the point equine energy levels are excessive (polite way of saying it's nuts).

So for the moments it is 6-7 days a week for the most part. 3 hack and 1-2 lunge by me, and the 2 days I'm away with work 2 hard schooling sessions by trainer.
 
Sec D is competing regularly so does 4 days in the school on average, 45-50 mins of reasonably hard work. Plus a couple of hacks, I ride and lead and she is the led horse. She either has a show or lesson or arena hire every week, so will have a day off after that... I don't tend to give her days off otherwise unless I really can't fit it in. Tend to ride her before work.
She needs plenty of work to keep her fitness up - just jumped up to BD medium and if she isn't fit enough she finds the work too hard on a show day.

Oldie is kept ticking over with 2 shorter sessions in the school and 2 hacks.
 
I have 2 horses, one i ride much more than the other. The welsh my mine one gets ridden about 2 x per week on average, Sometimes 1 x sometimes 4 x depending on the weather and time! I normally school him 1 x per week the rest is hacking. The other one a cob is ridden 2 - 3 x per week by a lady i have who shares her.
In the summer i ride 5/6 x per week - will do some jumping so 2 x sessions in the school and tend to do more exciting stuff like competitions and xc and expect the cob will be ridden the same too.
 
I work full time but an lucky to have a flood lit arena at the yard. Its not set in stone and is dependent on the weather and how I feel, but generally school on Wed and Friday and sometimes Tues as well, and might school at the weekend but try to take her for a trundle round the lanes to get her out of the arena. Sometimes it is hard fitting everything in though, and as im a fair weather rider, tend to avoid riding in horrible weather.
 
At the moment we school around 4 times a week and try and hack 2 times. My OH comes to ride on a weekend so we normally do one day hacking (around 2 hours) and one day schooling jumping.

During the week I have to ride after work - though it is getting lighter so do manage to get a couple of polework sessions in but usually just general schooling 3x a week and then a groundwork session. Apart from a Monday where we can have a blast in the fields before work as someone else does him in the evening for me (means I can start work later).

Normally 1 day off in the week but sometimes it's 2 just because I don't ride if i'm really tired or really not feeling it! In the summer we hack out alot more :)
 
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When horse is in work she's hacked pretty much every day, varying from a 15 minute wander as a cool down in the paddocks to a two hour trot up the beach. So she'd get schooled probably twice a week with a fifteen/twenty minute hack to cool down and then hacked out properly the other four or five days depending on weather.
 
Usually ride 6 days a week. We have lessons with our trainer twice a week, school/polework twice a week and then hack at weekends, mostly with some of the other liveries but sometimes solo depending on who is about on what else I've got planned for the day.
 
Between two horses, I'm currently riding around 18 times a week. Natives in springtime. Nightmare. I never work a horse on a surface at both ends of the day (so hack at least one a day), nor do they ever do more than two days in a row on a surface. One jumps, the other does polework once a week, and I can also do fast work in the hill field if I can't get out on the roads safely that day. They each get a day off every 10-14 days though.

In winter, I tend to ride them both 5-6 days a week. They'll get a month or so fully off this year I'd think too.
 
i ride six times a week. generally schooled or lunged four times in the week although in summer one of those normally goes to hacking. either then hack at weekend or have jump lesson/ compete.
 
I have two horses. I try and ride them both 5 times a week. I usually do 2 schooling sessions and 2 hacks with each horse and the 5th day is a competition, hack or lunge. Hacking is usually alone unless other half comes with me then I get them both ridden in half the time. I have one jumping/pole work lesson a week alternating between the horses each week. One horse is regularly competing and the other is doing a bit of dressage now and then.
 
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