Dec Link Luv
| December 11, 2015 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
Where I live there is mud season and sun season. Like Gail, the mud where I live is a heavy clay that is slick, heavy, and nasty. Unlike what Gail is dealing with, scratches aren’t a huge deal here. There are some individual horses that seem to be prone, but those are the same ones […] more
Training Logs
| December 5, 2015 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
My beloved database software that I used to log my runs and horse stuff (among LOTS of other things) was abandoned by its manufacturer several years ago. It’s been a couple of years and with the software getting more unstable with each major operating system update, it was (past) time for me to move on. I […] more
Nov IRL 2015
| December 3, 2015 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
Oh boy oh boy oh boy. It’s that time again. I’m not posting as much on a day-to-day basis, so these monthly summary posts provide a look at actual training and conditioning that occurs prior to my endurance races as a counter to what I believe is often unrealistic and rigid training “plans” on the […] more
Happy partners day
| November 25, 2015 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
Happy partners day Farley! I’m sorry I won’t be out today to take our annual selfie since I am flat on my back on the couch recovering from the lumbar puncture and dictating this into an iPad. But we did get to go riding last night and it was lovely at least for me. I’m […] more
A look at the numbers: Older endurance horses
| November 21, 2015 | Posted by Melinda under Equine Endurance, Most Popular |
In the Oct Link Luv post I shared some data that Mike Maul posted on the AERC facebook page….now, instead of relying on your *squirrel-shiny-object-syndrome brains to go click on that link and then come back in some sort of orderly and reliable fashion (this is the modern age after all), I’ll just **reiterate everything here. *Oh, […] more
How is this relevant?
| November 20, 2015 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
There hasn’t been a lot of posts here, and truthfully there hasn’t been a lot of pony time either. “Oh pah!” (you say). “Of course not! You just gave birth blah blah blah”. So….that’s not exactly the reason. The newborn stage being what it is (cry, eat, sleep, cry, eat, sleep), writing, running and riding (and […] more
Sneak Peek, hooves, and other updates
| November 15, 2015 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
Remember those questions that I had about older endurance horses and number of seasons competing in this link luv post? The same gentleman that crunched the data and gave us those graphs kindly mined the data I *think* I need to answer those questions. I’ve been in poccession of this data for approximately 4 weeks. Fig […] more
