Category: Equine Endurance
25 Things to know before your first 25 mile LD ride
| June 26, 2015 | Posted by Melinda under Equine Endurance, Most Popular |
Heading off to your first LD of 25 miles or more? Feeling a bit nervous? Relax! Here’s 25 of the essential must-knows before (and after) pulling into ridecamp. U Oct 2019 update: This post is now included in my book “Go Ride Far.” I’m leaving this post up on the blog in its entirety, […] more
Unfinished business
| January 12, 2015 | Posted by Melinda under Equine Endurance, Most Popular |
Sometime in high school (I think) I started working on a cross-stitch project. A LONG time later (umm…maybe 15 years or so?) this is what it looked like: Half finished, even though there was some concentrated, big (sporadic) pushes over the years. With national boards behind me and more downtime on my hands I’ve been […] more
Challenges of the home hospitalized horse
| November 15, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Equine Endurance, Most Popular |
I thought I was well prepared to take care of a critically ill horse at home. After all, I am a decent horse person combined with three-quarters a vet in the midst of year dedicated to managing complicated referral-hospital hospitalized patients. Easy right? Ummm..no. I’m going to share with you some of the most surprising […] more
Non-arab endurance
| November 7, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Equine Endurance |
I’ve wanted to write this post for a very very long time. How long? Years. It finally took a friend privately asking me about the subject to finally put my thoughts on paper. Why the hesitation? Because my experience is the experience of n=1 and I don’t want to discourage anyone. Because even though I […] more
Splints, the boring part
| October 23, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Equine Endurance, Vet & Sports Medicine |
While I think this post covered splints well enough, it was suggested that perhaps I should provide some sort of reference that went beyond pre-schoolers, paste, miniature dump trucks, and anti-social suspensories. The splint bones live on either side of the canon bone on all 4 legs and are properly called the metacarpals II […] more
On Splints
| October 18, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Equine Endurance, Most Popular, Vet & Sports Medicine |
