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Many thanks to David Jewkes and Connie Creech and their

crew for putting on the NASTR 30/50/75 ride this last weekend.

We had a blast!

 

I hadn't done this ride before and the trail was much different

to how I expected. Admittedly, the extra 25 mile loop added in

for the 75s was more or less *exactly* what I expected <g>

(next year, we do the 50 ;-)   ) but the rest of the trail was really

fun.

 

People complain about the rocks on this ride  - and there are

*rocks* (you ride about 40 miles in creek beds) - but we took

it on as a challenge and used the "trot 10' whenever you can"

system (remembering Becky Hart's talk at the AERC Convention)

and trolled along.

 

Both Roo and my friend's horse, Andy, were very relaxed and

paced nicely together, so we were able to keep up a gentle

100-mile trot so that none of us got totally worn out.

 

The sun beat down on the middle loops and we had some

"bleah" time while that was going on, but we all perked up

later in the afternoon as it cooled off and finished nice and

strong with a ride time of 14:30 (+ two hours of holds) at

9:30 pm right as it was getting dark. Yay! Doing a 75 was

a first for both me and Roo, so I'm very proud of my boy.

 

I still have to write up the story and post the 275 photos (...OK,

maybe I'll weed them a bit...), but suffice to say I learned a ton.

I got a new camera back in May (my old one was starting to

get temperamental) and the new one has video capability.

Wooo... talk about fun! So today I tweaked some of the

video footage I took of the ride and uploaded it to YouTube:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDT83AXGv3E

 

Enjoy!

 

(In front is my friend Dorothy with her home-bred gelding,

Andy, who is the son of her Tevis horse, Elly).

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Lucy Chaplin Trumbull
elsietee AT foothill DOT net
Repotted english person in the Sierra foothills, California
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Lucy Chaplin Trumbull
elsietee AT foothill DOT net
Repotted english person in the Sierra foothills, California
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