So last week was my first time riding after nearly a year off from being deployed and I felt awful. I tried out the horse I was looking to trade, but after talking to my trainer about it, we both think it would be better to pass on Veri (the Arabian I was originally thinking of purchasing) because he requires more maintenance in terms of riding than I could give him once I leave for school. Basically if he isn’t ridden every day, he’s a spooking basket case. No thanks. I can deal with high jinks, but I don’t enjoy it at all.
The good news though was that my pony, Darcy, is more trained than I originally thought he was. He came out of Cranbury Sales Stables and they didn’t have much info on him, so I had to wait to find someone small enough but experienced to try riding him and see how he’d react.
He did fantastic. No one has ridden him in at least six months and he did everything asked of him without any pony antics (even went over one jump, didn’t try ducking out at all).
His rider said she’d be willing to get on him once a week, so we’re going to try schooling him a few more times before advertising him for sale.
Now my question:
I was having issues with keeping my shoulders back while riding, but I think it’s more of a problem with having my chest open. I’m large breasted, so doing that is just not apart of my natural posture and is super uncomfortable to me.
Besides losing weight (which I plan on doing anyways), what else can help? Can something like an EquiFit ShouldersBack Brace help?
Also, anyone who is on the larger side of the bra aisle, what do you guys do for sport’s bras?
Still uncomfortable.
