Hunter Pace!

You would think that having 2 jobs (one full-time and one part-time) looming, and the realization that I will be working 7 days a week would give me some motivation to have fun and get stuff done. You thought wrong. I have been spending any ounce of free time laying on my floor moping... because that's what adults do, right? There IS a reason for the moping... but that will be in another post soon, no matter what the result is.

This ended up on my facebook feed somehow. This is how I feel.

I keep telling myself, "It will be fine! You will be able to pay your bills! All those student loans lurking... you can prepare for them!" But my heart tells me, "You won't have time to ride! You won't be able to get to XC school ever or do anything fun because you will be at work!" So... that's where I am at, and that's why it has taken me a long time to give a recap from the Hunter Pace I recently went to.

SO NOW TO THAT.

Hunter Pace. Stonegate. On the jumper team with some weirdo (Maddie, it was Maddie). It was a really nice (but really small) course. The sections in the woods were a bit dodgy, and Maddie nearly got clotheslined (darn, so close) by the almost invisible "don't go this way" ropes, but otherwise it was very nice. The little boat has been getting a little aggressive to fences lately, but since these were so tiny he just stepped over them and continued with his mastermind plan of racing Willie. Good news is, we jumped some things that we hadn't before, and only had one "bad" jump... aka a bit too short of a distance. Because I am lacking motivation, that's all I will say about it as of now, but there are a couple pictures AND the GoPro footage if anyone wants to watch that. Good times, I will conquer this random and annoying fear of XC. Ended up 3rd too, only a minute over, so RIBBONS!

Tiny.

Guess he wanted to have a slight look at this one, hi awkward legs.

Didn't realize that I only had 3 pictures...oops.

And a helmet cam... which I would prefer to delete the sound because I hate hearing myself talk, why do I talk??? The dialogue is, "careful," "good boyyyyy," and "HEY MADDIE WAIT WE ARE SLOW." So it's really not worth listening to...

Unrelated final question: Have you ever had to not take lessons or show for a long period of time? If so, how did you continue to focus and make progress during that time?

P.S. There may be some HUGE changes in my life soon... (good or bad, depends how it goes) so my next post may be... different.