Whicker,
I’ll be right there with you! We’ve got to take care of our girls (first) and ourselves (second)! Road work, I was thinking about suggesting road work with hounds. If we can’t hunt across hill and dale we can at least hack out road side and dream. :yes:
Whicker - You are a genius!
Whicker,
Queen B is a finicky thing so, I’m thinking the posh accommodations along with the temptation of scrumptious alfalfa (not to mention with a boyfriend in tow) might be just the ticket. No, I do not have qualms fibbing to the Queen about the weekends festivities. Really, she’s just going to keep the youngster company! Did you hear me Queen B… fret not, all you have to do is babysit… (until we get there :yes:)
Insert evil laugh.
I am truly jealous of talk of hacking out, hound work, and side roads. I’m still stuck with exactly one side of the arena to work with, and in some places that side’s not even wide enough for two horses to pass one another.
The property owner has bulldozed a short path into the fields in back, but quite honestly, I’m afriad to take Mahindra out there by myself. I haven’t had a true ride since the last week of December (sad violins play in the background).
I’ve been doing some indoor leg exercises on an exercise ball, but I know I’ll be really sore!
I’m actually hoping for sunny, scenic and slow for this hunt expedition.
However, my dining skills are well-honed, and I am ready for parties and dinners!
Muffin Top knees
Gee Whiz - I thought I had coined an original but looks like you guys beat me to it. I didn’t know knees could have muffin tops until I saw them for myself on me!
I am pleased to know that somewhere out there women who dare wear breeches that are not a size 4 and struggling to keep weight on. I’m not alone. Awesome! 
OUCH!!!
I’ve been doing some indoor leg exercises on an exercise ball, but I know I’ll be really sore!
How I wish I had been intelligent enough to follow this wise course of action. But no, I went and signed up for a Crossfit class. Welcome to pure hell, ladies. This is an “easier” version of the regular Crossfit class, where they teach you how to do all the movements properly and sort of ease into the workouts. Yeah, right. After only two days, my quads are so sore I can’t bend my legs. I look like one of Jerry’s kids now when I get up in the morning. I’ve got a fantastic Frankenstein impersonation going on when I go downstairs or downhill too. :lol: I pretty much have to go down sideways, since its pure agony to ask my quads to do anything right now.
This was a BRILLIANT decision on my part. :rolleyes: Especially with continuing to ride at the same time too. I rode yesterday morning with rubber legs and was exhausted after 45 minutes. Two more horses on Friday- sure hope I can bend my legs by then!
[QUOTE=Hinderella;5458069]
I am truly jealous of talk of hacking out, hound work, and side roads. I’m still stuck with exactly one side of the arena to work with, and in some places that side’s not even wide enough for two horses to pass one another. [/QUOTE]
I’ve been going in 50 foot circles for months and the paddock turn out hasn’t been much better. I can’t tell you how exciting it was for us to be able to navigate the driveway and roadside. My horse was so estatic he forgot to be naughty.
Poor Baby!
Oh Cammie,
Have I ever been there!!! Isn’t it gangs of fun when you have to do a flight of stairs?:eek:
When I went out to help with the L.A. Olympics, I tried to do the California thing and signed up for some exercise class with an actor/comedian as the guy in charge of the class. There wasn’t help with learning the form, but the jokes were terrific.:eek::lol:
I thought I was sooo fit from riding hard, Not for that class! OMG! it was hard to stagger to the car, and then it got worse for the next 3 days. I was “tied up” like a poorly trained endurance horse after a gazillion miles. I.Never.Will.Take.Another.Class!
Once upon a time, I was fit…really fit. I was a true gym rat, in the gym for 20-30 hours a week, lifting weights, doing cardio stuff, teaching classes, doing yoga. I stopped in 2005, and was able to “coast on my laurels” for quite a while. But now it’s all caught up to me, and I once again have to work to be in shape. I will say that even when I was going to the gym a lot, I would still get sore from riding, but I could recover more quickly. Of course, I was younger then…
But this trip will be so much fun that I don’t care if I have to mainline Advil all the way home!
The truly pathetic part is that the workout is only about 10 minutes long. First night I did the set in 9:30 or so (third from last!), and last night I did it very carefully in 11:30 (last place!). You spend a bit of time learning the techniques before starting the workout, and do some warm-up activities. Each night the workout is different. Last night were sets of deadlifts, kettlebell swings and box jumps- all of which can be a very dangerous back killer for me. So I did them very slowly and carefully. The obnoxiously fit guy did them in about 5 minutes. 
I definitely go into sloth mode over the winter, but am generally fairly fit (although for specific activities) the rest of the year. I knew that riding a couple of days a week wouldn’t cut it for this trip, so I figured I’d cram in 2 weeks in a last minute attempt to get fitter. Big mistake! :lol:
I think I’m in excellent shape…for the shape I’m in. HAR! Which means I’d like to be twice as fit as I am, at least - especially cardio stuff. After a long sucky winter with no place ride but the barn aisle. I have been trying to “chip away” at the erosion of fitness and skills with just short sessions of two point & no stirrups in that dang aisle, and I try to get some pilates in at least every other day. My trainer was pretty happy with me today and said it was working, whatever I was doing, core looked stronger, etc. Got three laps of the ring in, posting w/o stirrups and I had no idea how much the aisle work had been adding up to, so today was my first check up. That’s not much really, but “chipping away” is better than nothing. We were dodging pits of goo in the ring, but the canter work came together in the end, and I saw a bit of my old horse 
Haven’t jumped at all since…November? If the weather would just co-operate, I have options of other horses I can get some jumping in on, if Mr. Whiskey is just not up to it…but we are slipping and sliding all over the place around here.
And I have toyed with the idea of an exercise ball for ages, but I just keep thinking I’d get too carried away with bouncing on it. I just have visions of the neighbors seeing my head go bobbing past the window, yelling “Whee!!!” And them figuring I could at least pull the blinds or something. 
Did I hear someone mention exercise ball? This is the only use mine is getting. At least someone is getting a workout in… :winkgrin:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u71/Cammiespike/CJ/iphone248.jpg
I’ve heard horses like them too. Always looked like a strained leg fixing to happen to me…but I really need to work on this overprotective thing…I guess.
[QUOTE=Cammie;5459206]
I definitely go into sloth mode over the winter, but am generally fairly fit (although for specific activities) the rest of the year. [/QUOTE]
I do real well for the first miserable months of winter while the denial holds out, but there is something about February that makes me want to wear elastic waist pants and eat tuna noodle casserole out of the pan.
Well, I feel in reasonable shape cardio-wise, since I’m running a 10k April 2… but riding-wise, I was huffing and puffing after 3 times around the ring at a hand gallop yesterday - uh oh!
And I thought I might be able to keep up with the drinking and partying crowd, but after the comments posted here, I’m not so sure!!!:lol:
Oh well, I am really looking forward to it - and bringing LOTS of Advil with me!
drinking and partying, oh my!
I do hope you notice that there is a certain amount of tale spinning on this thread. :eek:
The creativity is part of the fun. But, the important serious stuff is still carefully followed. Please note, there are designated drivers, even if they are wearing amazing tiaras on the way home after the Princess Party. (Keeping them on the head is the only way to keep them from breaking. They follow the over-the-top and cheap rule. Good for those who are 5 years and older.:winkgrin::D:lol:)
[QUOTE=whicker;5460230]
I do hope you notice that there is a certain amount of tale spinning on this thread. :eek:
The creativity is part of the fun. But, the important serious stuff is still carefully followed. Please note, there are designated drivers, even if they are wearing amazing tiaras on the way home after the Princess Party. (Keeping them on the head is the only way to keep them from breaking. They follow the over-the-top and cheap rule. Good for those who are 5 years and older.:winkgrin::D:lol:)[/QUOTE]
Hmm. What about designated riders? Who’s going to guide my horse for me after I’ve finished my flask(s)? :winkgrin:
2 weeks to go!
[QUOTE=whicker;5460230]
I do hope you notice that there is a certain amount of tale spinning on this thread. :eek: [/QUOTE]
Whatever are you on about? Why, it was only two weeks ago I was enjoying a special Snobbington-style mimosa with Charlie, that would be Sheen you know, and described to him most accurately the run we at The Hunt were on “would make Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed, armless children!” And he said, disgruntled, “Clearly you didn’t bring gum for everybody.” Alas no, I said, but could not elaborate as I had to sip and run, having a previous and far more engaging engagement with John, that would be Cusack, ladies. But Charlie was having none of it. “I got magic and I got poetry at my fingertips!” he shouted. True, dahling, and while in theory your “fire-breathing fists” should rock my world, sadly, they do not. But, he insisted, “I’ve got tiger blood! There are parts of me that are Dennis Hopper!” And while I remembered that the one good thing about dead men is that they’re stiff, I also recalled that John Cusack is warmly alive and has the most adorable dimple that appears very high upon his cheek when he smiles just so, and has ridiculously long eyelashes and the dreamiest brown eyes. In fact, I chided George, that would be Clooney, dears, that if John’s PR was just tad more proactive, he would leave George in the dust, what with those eyes and eyelashes and that dimple. And George smiled his aw, shucks, smile and I melted into the poolside chaise I was lounging upon and very nearly forgot was I was on about.
LMAO
aoh…you al lhave me laughing my but off and wishing I could make the hunt.
Alas, i don’t feel so bad hearing that we’re all in the same boat. Our last club hunt was the end of january, but the ice storm ended hunts until “further notice”…then everything went to pure mud…so the hunt season is over and the croppers party was last saturday…which I missed due to a tradeshow that I had to attend…UGH.
indiana has been flooding. our lower paddock is a swamp…that my 17ottb likes to lay in…YUK…really…BM sent me pictures with a “I hope your blankets are wash and wear”…
I had mare’s shoes pulled, she doesn’t need 'em, and the geldings back pulled. his feet aren’t as good as her’s, but its better than having shoes sucked off. (last year I pulled all 4 off, he wasn’t too happy about that)…
I’ve been free jumping both or free jump one horse and ride the other, the arena is too dusty for me to survive 2 rides…now I feel incredibly out of shape… and my ankle has been killing me. I’ve been going to the gym, can do the stationary bike…but still end up walking like John Wayne the next am…same as after i ride or well…breathe. LOL. I’ve been lifting too, but it’s hard to keep a constant schedule due to travel…ugh…
last time we hacked the horses out was a couple weeks ago…and then it’s been a mess ever since.
However, I will be trailering to some lessons now. Have a couple barns that I can go to, so starting tomorrow…boot camp!
Without You, Life Is Incomplete
BigBayTb, Dahlink,
We are desolate or dissolute ( always get those words mixed up) without you too! We have to plan the Fall meet around your schedule. Do talk to those nice people with the huge trailer about joining us, please?:winkgrin:
We will be drinking the infamous limoncello elixir in your honor, toasting you, at the current spring meet. But seeing you on skype for a toast is a poor substitute for you in real life! :eek::eek:
You are an excellent comrade-in crime. I miss you, Dahlink!
:retires to the loveseat in the barn aisle way, too overcome with emotion to carry on…:
:winkgrin::lol:
HP’s needs…
Why CarrieK! Whatever are YOU on about?!! (sips mimosa, twirls pearls)
How on earth did you manage to get “Charlie the would be Sheen” and John & George into our thread!!! (face aghast & sniffing) Not that I mind including them but all this talk about exercise and fitness IS giving me something to melt about…(sniff, faints, strangles self again with her pearls, coughs, chokes, recovers) and I’ll join you in the chaise to watch the rest of the HP’s get fit. I of all people understand that with puffy pants one doesn’t NEED to exercise. I think BBTb will join us poolside as her Festus walking is active right now. (nods, sips, winks) So Hunting Princesses - carry on with your exercises!!! Carry on!!!
