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I went to the competitive ride on Saturday. I didn't chat this up as much as I did in 2007 because I was busting my tail on conditioning in 2007. It was the first time I was doing it for real and actually *trying* to win and so forth. It was interesting and there were problems to solve and stuff. This year, I did somewhat less conditioning and did not particularly expect to win anything. Also, I figured it would not be very interesting for all ya'll to hear about me riding my horse when the entries would be very much like one another. This year, I conditioned across the road, going up and down the hollow beyond the pear tree, over and over. I did walk and trot, mostly walking up the hills and trotting on the flat, about an hour of that for three nights a week all summer long. (If you want to know what the days were like, you can read the last sentence over and over until you get tired of reading it. It'd help if you could make it ninety degrees while you read, too.) Rather than bore you with repetitive details, I got on with it quietly.

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