If I Was a Horse, They Would Shoot Me

[Oldwaggy@aol.com]

Well, Remington and Skjoldur will now start the year 2000 endurance season 
with a very long rest.  Good for them; not so good for me.  I spent New 
Year's Eve (and our 22nd wedding anniversary) in the emergency room getting 
X-rayed and treated for a broken leg, a lateral tibial plateau fracture.  
Later this week I will go in for surgery to realign the broken bone with the 
knee joint and reattach it with a screw.

The irony is that after years of riding strange terrain at night on endurance 
rides I would wind up injuring myself by simply dismounting from one of our 
young horses, Prinsessa, while training in the round pen. I didn't even fall 
but obviously must have landed awkwardly.  I've fallen off Skjoldur several 
times on the trail before but have never suffered anything more than a 
bruise.  Maybe I just shouldn't ride at home.  I definitely shouldn't train a 
young horse without anyone else around again.  

Oh well.  Now I can watch videos, surf the net, catch up on old e-mail and 
live the life of an armchair endurance rider.  We'll be back for Tevis.

John Parke 
Solvang CA


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