We are a few weeks into 2025 and we've only just managed a full week of our actual scheduled training. I pre-empted a variable start to the year with weather, work and training so I have set my sights later into the endurance season so that I feel less pressure if training doesn't go exactly to plan.
Estrid is not the type of horse you can plunge head first into anything and expect the best from her, so although an early 80km or 1* would have been lovely, I think she will do better with a softer and slower ease into competing again. Fitness wouldn't be our issue but her confidence definitely improves with repetition, so to optimise our chances of success I am going to do a few lower distance events before we set our sights on our 2025 goals.
This week we managed a 30minute schooling session, focusing on changing the rhythm in each gait. Her first water treadmill session of 15mins and below fetlock for the water level, a group 1hr pole clinic, and a 10km hack, of which 50mins was walk and just over 20mins of trot.
Thanks for watching,
Beth