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Post by risingrainbow on Nov 9, 2006 1:12:39 GMT -5
Boy, am I gonna be sore tomorrow. The weather let up long enough to load up horses and go ride so I took a trailer load over to where Dandy is to ride. Horse number 3 and I hit the dirt. He decided he didn't want to lope over a puddle of urine right in the middle of the arena and leapt sideways. It caught me off gaurd and I lost my balance and it went down hill from there. By about the fifth stride he ran into the arena wall and stopped dead as I hit the ground between him and the wall. He took off before I hit the ground, so fortunately didn't step on me but my elbow hit the wall, I managed to leave a butt print in the dirt and somehow still land with my face in the dirt. Don't know how I pulled off that combination, all I know is as sore as I am today, tomorrow is going to be really bad. I'm too old to be falling off of horses!!
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Post by h2opony on Nov 9, 2006 1:38:49 GMT -5
OMG! I hope you feel better soon! Pack on the ICE and take some advil!
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Post by kayla on Nov 9, 2006 11:43:29 GMT -5
Nice hot baths do the trick too!! Hope you feel better that had to hurt
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Post by cheri on Nov 9, 2006 13:42:30 GMT -5
Oh no! All of the above recmendations in rotation!
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Post by stacey on Nov 9, 2006 18:22:33 GMT -5
oh no hope you get better soon take a long hot bath  |
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Post by redmustangwoman1 on Nov 10, 2006 8:49:42 GMT -5
Hope you are feeling better today!! HUGS
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Post by risingrainbow on Nov 10, 2006 14:22:51 GMT -5
Thanks for all the advice. I'm not as sore as I thought I would be. My neck is pretty stiff and my shoulders are tight but other than that I'm doing ok. I rode yesterday over at the park and we worked on going through puddles. It was really not much of a problem, the darn horse seems to know that puddles belong outside and NOT in the arena. The young horse didn't like the puddles much though but we got through it and now he even lopes through them. The day I got dumped, there was another woman that got dumped about a half hour before me. She didn't fare as well as me. She was so sore yesterday she had to get someone else to even feed. I'll be rubbing it in that she was calling me "Grandma"  |
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Post by cheri on Nov 10, 2006 16:50:31 GMT -5
LOL! Grandma you are not! Glad to hear that you faired ok. A little stiff and sore is easier to deal with then what you expected to happen. It usually works out that way.
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Post by Marion on Nov 11, 2006 19:03:01 GMT -5
I hope you get to feeling better soon.
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Post by twnpnds on Nov 13, 2006 4:03:14 GMT -5
Glad things are better. Those spills sure can put the ouch to ya. I rode a horse in an inside arena that was being sprayed to keep the dust down. When we started to cross the part already sprayed she put on the brakes and I almost went over her head. What I was told was, a horse will see the darker spot and think it's a hole. It's because they can't focus well on things right under or right in front of them. Once they understand it's not any different they usually will cross that spot easily.
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