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How long can you go without riding?
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
How long can you go without riding?
I've been sick since Saturday. I did manage to sit on Armani on Sunday. It was only for 15 minutes. He was fresh and I was coughing and sneezing. Since then I've been too sick. It is now Wednesday.
It has been raining and icy all week, which rather reflects how I feel. I try to ride every day and not miss more than a day at a time. But this is the first time I've been sick in a while. Still I harbor massive amounts of guilt for missing time.
How long can you go without riding?
How long can you go without riding?
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Haha...well 2009 and now 2010 has shown me that I can go MONTHS without riding. Not that I am one bit happy about it :(
I dont like my horses (when they're in full work) to go more than 2 days without a ride. I at the very least have my trainer get on them or drag myself out to lunge them when I am not feeling up to getting on their back if at all possible. Feel better!!!!
A week is about the time I start to become reeeally anxious about it. Hang in there! I hope your weather and health improve!
I ride about 8am every morning and I'm at work by 10.30. About 11, I'm ready to ride again.
I haven't ridden in a while - we have no indoor and the weather and footing haven't cooperated - it'll be spring before I'm able to do much again. Feel better!
unfortunately i too can go weeks or months due to poor weather and poor footing or busy work days...i feel that i am not myself at all when i don't ride and get depressed....hope you feel better!!
Its been too long for me. Winter rolled in about the first of December and I think I've been on my horse a total of 1/2 an hour since. There is snow, ice, drifts, windchills, mud, snow, ice drifts and did I mention the windchills? This is the LONGEST I have gone without riding in 10 years and I am starting to curl up see depression setting in. We finally got some sunshine, but today it is single digit temps. (big sigh...)
Last spring I got thrown and hurt bad enough that it took me a month to get back on.
I'm finding out =P
I live in Minnesota and haven't been able to ride since November =*(
First it was the cold and windchill, now it's glare ice absolutely everywhere and we don't have any arena much less and indoor. It's like torture =X
At least my horse is young 3 going on 4 (in May) so I've been able to comfort myself with the fact that she's just been able to mature etc.
I want to move someplace warmer soooo bad!
I've been sick for the past week and I've only ridden twice during that time. Although I was sick enough that I didn't care. =)
IN the winter I'm forced to go months with out riding because I don't have a good safe indoor arena to ride in. A couple years ago after the loss of my most favorite horse, I went a year without riding due to depression from his loss.
I can go a week but feel guilty...2 weeks and I'm anxious and chomping at the bit (no pun intended) to get back into the saddle.
Ugh the weather has been completely miserable here. I live in Virginia and we just got 12 inches of snow. I got a new horse this fall and it is torture not to be able to do ANYTHING!
I am in the process of buying myself a horse. I was going to wait until summer and a better fitness level, but the constant rains we've had in my area have meant riding one or two times a week... for the owners of the horses I had been working for them on the days they couldn't get out. After a two week period without riding I told my trainer I was ready to find a horse as soon as we could, and didn't need to wait for summer.
I just started riding again after 8 years of not. At the time, I couldn't afford anything more than one lesson a week. I found myself in tears over how desperately I wanted to ride by the time the next lesson came around each week. It was sheer torture which I couldn't handle. It was easier to stay away and miss horses in a way that would get dull than have that amount of self-inflicted pain! Before I decided to give them up for a while I did seriously consider renting a cheap apartment in an unsafe neighborhood and getting a roommate so I could afford more horse time.
Wow, Net! I totally get what you are saying! I took a few years off myself and was very stir crazy until I could get back. Good luck in your horse search. Very exciting. :)
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