Endurance Horse Skillz
| August 20, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
I’m sure every affectionado of a particular horse sport has their pet peeves when it comes to how their horse’s training is perceived by people in other horse sports. Dressage is more than being able to have 3 gaits and go in a circle, and jumping potential is measured in ways other than the frequency […] more
Moving up a Distance
| August 19, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
Somewhere between the Amazon boxes of clinic supplies and wedding stuff, I decided to include an order of running upgrades. I have an older Petzl headlamp – but it’s not quite good enough to run at night. I’m tired of socks with holes in them. I saw this ultrarunning book as a review on a […] more
Sunday laziness
| August 17, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
I have a number of half started, barely edited drafts right now….and instead of making any of those coherent (which seems like a lot of work as I sit here in my recliner in the living room), I’m going to write about whatever random thing pops into my head. This is a no-guaranteed pony content […] more
August 12 Pony Play
| August 13, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
It was pointed out that I have been lax in posting Merrylegs pictures. Mostly because my photo opportunities look like this: Tonight I went out to the stable and made a point of taking along the camera. Only to turn it on and find out that somehow the photo card had gotten “write protected”. Major […] more
Of Goals, Flexibility, and the future
| August 10, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
At the beginning of every month we discuss what happened in the previous month – miles ran, hours ridden, events finished. I call these “IRL” posts and they are designed to give people who stumble across this post a real time look at actual amount of conditioning I do in order to ride (or run!) […] more
SF 50mi ultra Q & A
| August 6, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Event Report |
Some of these are real questions, some are questions I *wanted* to answer. if I missed something leave a question in the comments. Did your toenails fall off? Nope. Not even sore, not even discolored. I’ve never had a toenail tragedy and part of me feels like I’m missing out on a quintessential part of […] more
SF 50 Ultra Comic
| August 5, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Event Report |
I did it! I ran a not-so-easy fifty mile ultramarathon and finished! Fortunately for *me* ( and rather unfortunately for the blog…) I had a good running day that happen to coincide with race day. I find in these longer races that unless things went very very wrong, nobody cares about a play by play […] more
