Making Progress
After a week of working and ‘riding’ Sunshine every day the weekend came. It came a bit early. My son had the day off school Thursday because why not. The school thought it would be fun. We have a four day school week. Work week too since my husband works at the school. So everyone was home today and we have been running all day.
No Sunshine time. Oh well, he deserved a break after the grueling week he put in.
So, instead of a daily training update, which I’ve been a bit too busy to get to anyway, here is a compilation of a few of his rides. All six or so of them that he’s had.
I should edit video with the sound on. In one of these, if you make it past the whole minute of walking slowly in circles of the first ride, my son had a timer set and orders to come see if I was still alive. He did, I was, I asked him to reset the timer and come back again later. I would have edited that bit out had I listened 😆
Looking back I also should have made the first ride bit shorter. No one needs to see a horse calmly walk in circles for a whole minute. If you are watching you might want to skip the first bit 😉
The second piece was his second ride. My first solo sit. Was a lot accomplished? No. What was accomplished was a huge leap in confidence. A small sit without incident is really a big leap forward.
Then my back went out. So there was a day of so off riding and a back brace once riding was resumed. I kind of like it. It’s like a corset, gives me a bit of a waist 🤣
This isn’t every ride. The first two and the last two actually. But I think there is a difference from beginning to end. We got forward all by ourselves. I am now very comfortable on his back. That comfort is important for me to begin making actual progress. Can’t wait to see what our next ride brings!