Weather!

It’s always frustrating when you’re feeling motivated and have a plan but weather stops play, but it is what it is. For my own brain I find doing something, no matter how small, keeps my motivation up. Be it extra carrot stretches, playing on wobble cushions or just and in hand walk. So when the snow and sheet ice hit our yard for a week we did in hand walk poles on the frozen school for a whole week, we tried different patterns and drills but even Estrid got a bit bored by session 5.

Despite it being a bit dull and not really contributing to her fitness it did give me time with my horse and it was also interesting to see how her ability with different tasks varied from session to session, how she initiated movement and what she found most difficult. I do in hand sessions all the time but rarely back to back and the insight was very interesting.

I always enjoy the cold snaps, although not very practical it is very pretty and I love the sound of walking on crunchy snow. But I am definitely keen to crack on with some decent training now, so hopefully weather doesn’t stop play too much for this pre-season.