Its finaly hit me.

I am...

...an amateur. *sigh* there I said it!

I kind of hit me today. I was thinking last night how, although Im happy with Lucas' preformance under saddle (rode again last night more about that later) I keep thinking that he should be moving along faster, I mean come on, its been over a month.

Thats when it hit me.

The last time I rode a horse on a semi-perment basis.... I was training horses full time. I was riding every day, I was fit and had alot of time to work with the horses. If the horse needed more than an hour it got it.

I dont have that luxury any more! I only get to ride at the most 2x a week. Im out of shape, and I have a time limit on my barn time now (If I want to get to work awake in the morning anyways!)

Although the RA and school has kept me out of the saddle, before that I was riding horses at the top of there game. Now Im looking at Lucas and where I want to be, (and where both of us USED to be),, how long is it going to us take to get there?




Other than that my ride went well the other night. Still lots of transitions, keeping him thinking and moving. Then stoping and really 'resting' hes always waiting and a bit nervious when we stop I want him to realize that when we stop to take a break, we really need to relax and take a break! Hes still leaning onto the bit going to the left but now Im balanced enough, that I pull him in a circle to break him from leaning. He needs to be tied around, but Im worried that hes not able to do it vs. not wanting to do it. My brothers girlfiriend is a massage theripist (really she is and shes good!!) she does horses for 'fun' shes not trained on horses per say but has ridden from a young age and knows the horses muscle groups. Anyways Im going to get her out and see what she thinks. I really think that my western saddle doesnt fit... the one horse it doesnt fit... and I bought the horse *sigh* lol