May 27, 2010 | Patti's Blog
The ride itself was much like the decade we’ve competed together. Moments of ups, downs, pride, embarrassment, laughter, impatience, disheartenment and renewal. My friend Joanie, a complete non-horsey type, decided going to Canada with me sounded like “an...
May 13, 2010 | Patti's Blog
My plan is to excavate old blog posts and cut and paste them here for posterity’s sake, but am excited to post on my own blog on my own website. Next stop, Oprah! It has been an exciting spring for us. I am presently staring down a rapidly slowing work schedule for...
Sep 7, 2009 | Patti's Blog
Hit the road at 4:20 a.m. on Wednesday after a mostly sleepless night. Rich got up with me and fed the boys while I showered AND he found me some cash (forgot to stop at the bank) so all I had to do was load Ace and go. Despite some road work, I got to my client’s...
Aug 1, 2009 | Patti's Blog
Ontario Provincial Championships/Ace’s First 100 My friend Sylvia, managing to wrangle her passport in an expedited fashion from the Feds, came up from Pittsburgh on Tuesday, and we headed north with Ace for the 100 mile ride in Ontario on Thursday. After our last two...
Jul 19, 2009 | Patti's Blog
Vermont/Moonlight 50 Ned is 15 this season, with over 2000 miles to his credit, and the most frequently used phrase when I talk about him and our endurance competition plans is “he doesn’t owe me a thing.” He doesn’t. All those miles on a body that is not classically...
May 8, 2007 | Patti's Blog
Ned and I headed off to Biltmore by way of a stop in Canfield, Ohio (near Youngstown) to pick up my distance riding pal and crew, Randi. Hit dinner and a Cosmo, and overnighted there, before making the trek from OH to NC on Wednesday. We arrived about 7 p.m. at the...
