Is anyone going to watch the Mongol Derby coming up next month? Does anyone know anyone that’s entered this year? Have any of you ever ridden in it?
I love that you can keep up with the riders and watch their trackers on the website. I think it would be really cool to go and crew over there to help out each station.
Julie Wofert rode in it a year or two ago. I don’t really know her but she is a local eventer. I first learned of it following along on a horse based tv station. I have become fascinated with it sice then.
2 years ago, a good friend of mine did it. He had never ridden endurance or distance type rides/ horses before so he trained with me on one of my horses for several months before going. The stories he brought back were absolutely fascinating.
Do you know why they pick the hottest month of the year? Or is it just really hot all year?
I don’t know why they pick August. It’s summer, so maybe they just try to hold it during the most stable warm weather? I think August is tourist season over there too, maybe that has something to do with it.
I really liked watching Josh Edwards do it last year. He was a rodeo pickup man for a long time, then did the Mongol Derby and won 3rd! What a difference picking up broncs, then riding the Mongol horses that distance.
August is likely cooling into autumn in Mongolia, which is about the latitude of the northern U.S. states, and landlocked (no warming ocean).
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