Endurance Riding

We did it! With a ride time of 10 hours and 1 minute, we finished our first 50! *Watch our videos at the bottom of this post!* My favorite memories from the Redwood Ride: The beautiful drive up the 101 (and getting to enjoy the views since Kathryn was driving). The quiet ride camp and […]

Today the weather was beautiful and so Mom and I decided to take the boys for a ride. Since I am still resting Asali from our Tevis Trail training, I rode Forest bareback. Mom rode Winnie and ponied Declan on Donovan. Jakob rode his horse, Beauty, of course. We went down to the creek first […]

It was 5:15 am. I awoke to a knock on the door and Linda asking, “Are you awake?” “Yup, wide awake!” I had been dead asleep, even though Linda and I had decided the night before that we would get going an hour earlier than our first day of Tevis training in order to beat […]

It was about a 45 minute drive to Auburn. Linda drove me by the fairgrounds, pointing out where we’d be at the conclusion of the Tevis Cup. When she showed me the stadium and said, “That’s where you’ll take your victory lap,” I couldn’t help but smile. I felt like a little girl with big dreams, […]

Asali and I made it to Linda’s house in Rio Linda safely around 8 pm. We got lost after we exited the freeway, but Linda came and rescued us! Linda is a woman I met at my first endurance ride and when she heard I wanted to do the Tevis Cup, she agreed to host […]

We arrived at ride camp in the Tahoe National Forest on Friday evening. And this time, I brought along the family – my husband, Gary, our boys, Jakob and Declan, and our new puppy, Asia. We got lucky with a perfect camp spot that was large enough for our truck and trailer, Asali’s electric fence […]