What does everyone’s lockdown weekends look like? Anyone else getting bored of the same hacking routes from home yet? I mean I can’t complain, for a start I can go hacking from the yard, yes they’re not great, yes it’s a lot of road but hey it’s something! Lockdown 3.0 seems loooooooooong compared to 1 and 2. I quite like the winter weather so for me it’s not so much because the sun isn’t shining it’s more because the lack of adventure is creeping up to its one year anniversary. I feel like we’re all work and no play with nothing certain to look forward to (Maybe that’s a bit melodramatic, but you know what I mean).
COVID has had its challenges for everyone, and affected us all in different ways. For someone like me, who is driven by goals, deadlines, schedules and routine, I’ve had to learn to manage the way my brain works, but I have also learnt to just enjoy the present for the sake of it, which is something I rarely did before. A good training ride was good because it got me closer to that competition goal not purely because it was fun at the time.
The other great thing to come out of this strange time is riding other peoples horses. With more time on my hands and less need to train my own horses hard I have been riding the hunters over the road from the yard and I’m a little bit in love. They are so smooth to ride, really quite speedy and it’s been great for my riding having a variation in horses to train.
The funniest thing for me is that every weekend is the same. It’s hard to distinguish one from another. I ride, bake, walk, eat, read, sleep, repeat. So here is a taste of what every weekend looks like for me at the moment.
Beth Endurance 