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RE: [RC] What do you think when you are coming off? - spiritwood@xxxxxxxxxWELL! At last month's NC ride my only thought when my horse was suddenly bowled out from under me was "keep rolling, keep rolling"! We had been somewhere around mid pack so when we departed company there were 40 some horses zooming up from behind us in the darkness! It was like a slow-moving auto accident. Lots of bouncing lights, glow sticks, and the everwhelming thundering of horses coming up the gravel road. I popped up when I hit a bush is someone's front yard and then jogged up the road asking everyone I saw to catch my horse if they saw him and tie him to something. Thankfully people like John Crandall and Amy Cieri took the time to do just that so we were reunited a mile or so down the road. We didn't get to finish although we did ride up to the top of Edinburgh gap where the cumulative effect of the hit and then falling on the asphalt road caught up to us. Bruised and sore horse but is sure could have been worse! Don't worry, we will be back! Becky and Elektric Original Message: ----------------- From: rides2far@xxxxxxxx Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 22:07:39 -0500 To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] What do you think when you are coming off? With me it's almost lays the trotting 90 mph, slam on the brakes and break left that gets me. I'm just cruising along and I suppose my first thought is, "Where's my horse?" Strange feeling when you're still hanging in the air and he's suddenly gone. My most common injury is the rope burn between the fingers where I hang onto the reins. I generally fly over his head and land squatting facing him in the trail. He runs backwards because a person just flew out of the sky and landed in front of him and that's shocking. I get a rope burn because I hang onto the reins when he does it. I know I'm kinda known for breaking the collarbone but those aren't from me falling off. Those are from him flippin with me. That's when I think, "Where's my horse's head?" Angie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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