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Jul. 30th, 2007 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickHorse outing today.
We went up Betsy Road and out Bark Road to Pittman Road and down Pittman Road to the (egregiously poorly marked) 'Roaring Run Road'. (Regardless of what Google Maps says, it is not a road.) This was about a ten mile trip (there and back) and we were all tired at the end, having ridden from 5:45 until 8:30. (There was a saddle reset, two easyboot resets, and a ten-minute drink break in the mix plus also it was humid as hell and over eighty.) We didn't make good time but we covered a very solid distance. We'll do better next outing. We did trot two miles in twenty minutes (measured Betsy to Pittman, early in the ride) for the six-mile-an-hour mark. We need to average 6.5 mph but we have two months to do that.
Cass swears she saw a bear. I did not see the bear this time but it was getting dark and I wasn't looking too hard in case I saw it.
In its first real test (riding in the ring at the fair does not count) the new saddle (the Torsion) was good on her back but it slides a bit on climbs and rubbed one of my thighs raw. Ouch on the thigh, I gotta say. I also like the stirrups I have on the BMSS better so I'm considering switching those for next time. The stirrups on the BMSS are the wide-bottomed kind for competitive trail, where the irons I have on the Torsion are traditional english irons and they ain't comfy or very secure-feeling.
The ground was soggy and Nick threw one of her booties twice so I took 'em off for the (lovely) Pittman Road portion of the ride. I put 'em back on for the Bark Road stuff because that blue gravel is brutal. I'm considering shoes on the front, honestly. It'd make things so much easier...
We went up Betsy Road and out Bark Road to Pittman Road and down Pittman Road to the (egregiously poorly marked) 'Roaring Run Road'. (Regardless of what Google Maps says, it is not a road.) This was about a ten mile trip (there and back) and we were all tired at the end, having ridden from 5:45 until 8:30. (There was a saddle reset, two easyboot resets, and a ten-minute drink break in the mix plus also it was humid as hell and over eighty.) We didn't make good time but we covered a very solid distance. We'll do better next outing. We did trot two miles in twenty minutes (measured Betsy to Pittman, early in the ride) for the six-mile-an-hour mark. We need to average 6.5 mph but we have two months to do that.
Cass swears she saw a bear. I did not see the bear this time but it was getting dark and I wasn't looking too hard in case I saw it.
In its first real test (riding in the ring at the fair does not count) the new saddle (the Torsion) was good on her back but it slides a bit on climbs and rubbed one of my thighs raw. Ouch on the thigh, I gotta say. I also like the stirrups I have on the BMSS better so I'm considering switching those for next time. The stirrups on the BMSS are the wide-bottomed kind for competitive trail, where the irons I have on the Torsion are traditional english irons and they ain't comfy or very secure-feeling.
The ground was soggy and Nick threw one of her booties twice so I took 'em off for the (lovely) Pittman Road portion of the ride. I put 'em back on for the Bark Road stuff because that blue gravel is brutal. I'm considering shoes on the front, honestly. It'd make things so much easier...
