Aug 9, 2010 | Patti's Blog
This weekend was the Ride Between The Rivers near Elkin, West Virginia. We’ve been told over and over again what a FUN ride this was, how tremendous the hospitality, how tight the parking, and we might have also heard something about the moonshine. So we packed up...
Aug 4, 2010 | Patti's Blog
Ah, the magic of Facebook. Denny Emerson and I are “friends” on Facebook. Now, to be fair, I’ve never been formally introduced to Denny, but I have always admired his long-standing dedication to both distance riding and eventing. During Ned’s first 100 in Vermont, we...
Jul 26, 2010 | Patti's Blog
No one was more shocked than me when my husband, Richard, and I sat down to talk about which rides we’ll try to hit for the remainder of the season. Certainly the WV ride on August 7th is a no-brainer. Not too terribly far from home (~7 hours), lots of friends...
Jul 25, 2010 | Patti's Blog
I’m the sort of girl, I’ve been told, who needs a project. I was pleasantly surprised to have a couple of friends tell me they’d been checking in on the blog and were surprised to see I hadn’t been posting. Getting two horses through a 100 mile ride = project. That...
Jul 3, 2010 | Patti's Blog
It’s a long one, ladies and gentlemen. All photos by Rachel Lodder. Rarely does one get through a 100 without some bit of misadventure, but we had more than our fair share at the Canadian National Championship 100. All in all, we still had a magical time! Rachel and...
Jun 27, 2010 | Patti's Blog
For years now, my horses and I have been getting myofascial release treatments from Doris Halstead, who wrote the book Symmetry in Motion and has also written Release the Potential and released a DVD. Lucky for us, Doris has been a local gal, a physical therapist who...
