Ridecamp: Re: [Fwd: Re: [RC] riding in the rain]

T...

"Living through it" is sometimes the case.  Remember "Run for the
Roses"? Did the 25 on a Quarter Horse one year up there early in my
Endurance "career"...on "Bells Forcast Kip"...in a ferocious
thunderstorm.  My first BC ever...we came in second. Rained like hell
all weekend...had to tow the trailers out of the pasture. On top of the
mountain, we rode across a logged "clear cut". You could smell the ozone
in the air from the lightning strikes and feel your skin tingle and your
hair crackle...fastest I've EVER rode across the top of a mountain!
<grin> Still got the completion coffee cup and the BC parka from that
ride...won't ever forget how scared I was.....

Jim, Sun of Dimanche, and Mahada Magic

Truman Prevatt wrote:
> 
> I remember hearing about that one. May have been why Teddy stopped
> running the ride. It got quite dangerous and a RM's nightmare having to
> worry about horses getting flushed into the Ohio river and ending up in
> New Orleans:-).
> 
> Sometimes the word endurance takes on new meaning which is to just live
> to see another day. But when you look back on them (from a long time
> back so the pain is gone and the memory has faded) it is these times we
> remember the most and the source of stories around the campfire. Yep we
> don't take about the battles that we eaisly won.
> 
> Truman
>


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