Last week B texted me Friday evening after earlier saying she needed to skip riding, and we met at Spruce Mountain Saturday mid-morning. It was hot, but a pretty ride with all the wildflowers. If I had been thinking I would have chosen Indian Creek to avoid the home stretch of the Ren. Fair traffic. This week was the Buffalo Creek endurance ride. I had thought I might go and do the intro ride, but Friday I really worked hard on house and farm yard chores and was too tired to get up early and do the long drive to Buffalo Creek the next morning.
So I went to Sharp Tail trailhead, not even getting there until noon on Saturday and rode solo. B was doing the BC LD on Friday and volunteering on Saturday. I need to text her and ask how it went. My solo ride went pretty well, I was not wiped out like I had been after the Spruce Mountain ride. Probably mostly because it was cooler yesterday than last week but I'll take it as a good sign for being able to do 25s at LaVeta if I ride smart and take care of myself and Tanza.
I may send the BC RM a donation, I guess a lot of people didn't show up on Friday that had pre-registered. I would like to see the ride continue, but there was a bit of a grudge on my part for not going on Saturday as well as me being legitimately very tired. My thought process did include "why go enter a ride managed by the person who I think told B (but not me directly) that my horse with me riding him was 'downright dangerous' two years ago?" I had not pre-registered because had been a bit on the fence all along about should I go?, I will be late even for the intro, unless I just leave dad alone until the aide comes at 9 because I didn't ask Amada if the aide could come early on the 5th, yada yada, but I didn't even put Tanza in a pen Friday night or set my alarm to get up early; I was feeling so spent Friday evening that I knew I wanted to just do a shorter drive to ride somewhere on Saturday.
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