Heading into winter when you are at the later stages of a rehab program is just poor timing. Especially for an injury that requires hard ground and minimal circling. But instead of letting it make me feel like a failure I’ve been pro-active, anticipated these hurdles and just delayed our schedule. Past Beth, wouldn’t believe it! But I’m much more open to changes of plan these days.
Roo is basically in the final stages of his rehab plan before returning to ‘normal’ training. He is sound on a 10m circle on the soft and is much happier in himself. I still don’t want to spend too much time in a soft menage doing circles and it’s been icy out on the roads so I can’t don all my lights and go for a nightime hack after work.
So I have scheduled a short pause in his training, not complete rest but we’re doing one pole session in the week and one hack on a weekend when it’s a bit warmer and lighter in the day. I actually think a bit of a break will be good for him before heading into normal training for the 2023 season. Structured, scheduled rest is often overlooked as a key component of a good training plan so I feel like because I planned this, everything is going to plan rather than feel like I’m delaying anything by having the decision made for me by weather.
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