Trail Guide part 2
| May 15, 2017 | Posted by Melinda under Training journal |
Trails featured in this post: Magnolia/Cronan on HWY 49 near Cool Driver’s Flat near Foresthill Sutter Bike Trail, Yuba City Cache creek trail heads – Judge Davis, Cowboy Camp, High Bridge Cascade Canal Trail, Grass Valley/Nevada City Empire Mine, Grass Valley In case you missed it, here’s part 1 with all the “use at your […] more
Trail Guide part 1
| May 12, 2017 | Posted by Melinda under Training journal |
Trails featured in this post: Shanghai Bend, Yuba City Feather Falls South Yuba State Park, near Penn Valley Do you live near me in Northern CA? Are you trying to figure out where the best trails are to get training miles in? These posts are going to bore the hell out of anyone not in […] more
April IRL 2016
| May 11, 2017 | Posted by Melinda under Training journal |
Most important lessons learned this month. 1. The simple trick to getting conditioning miles done If I have time to squeeze in a run or run….DO IT NOW, don’t put it off. Don’t give up a 30 min run (or ride) now in favor of a planned 1 hour (or more) session tomorrow. Just go running. Because […] more
Trailer tack room organization
| April 26, 2017 | Posted by Melinda under Equine Endurance, Trailer |
The most important part of this post is where you don’t laugh at my “ingenuity” – i.e. red-neck git’er done technique – of creating horse trailer organization. I haven’t yet summoned up the courage to show my husband. Several months ago he replaced the flooring in the tack room – pulled up the old carpet, carefully scraped […] more
Writers Block
| April 26, 2017 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
It’s been too long since I posted something and I have all these GREAT half finished posts and ideas…but I just don’t have anything to write about. I sit down in the mornings with my cup of coffee and half start a bunch of posts and…… That happens. Did you catch that? That’s where I […] more
An Honest Assessment
| April 18, 2017 | Posted by Melinda under Equine Endurance, Training journal, Ultra Running |
When it’s raining (again) and you can’t get on the trails, there are two choices: eat brownies or think too hard about what is a very simple sport (get on trail, go far). I’ve written about conditioning plans and why it’s so essential to not blindly follow a generic x weeks to get to x […] more
ML’s first conditioning ride
| April 9, 2017 | Posted by Melinda under Equine Endurance |
On Tuesday the stars aligned and I had a day off work AND sunny skies. I decided to take ML out for a trail excursion about 1 hour from home. Logically there was a ton of stuff I could have still done at home to prep. I had never ridden her outside of an arena. I had […] more
