Re: [RC] [RC] Spike in Heart Rate/Backpackers - Suzi Maiorisi
Holly and I were riding down our road last Fall like we'd done 4 times a
week for the last 6 months. There is an area where cedar trees force you
to ride pretty close to the road side and when you get around them you are then
able to move back closer to the fence line. As we come around the last big
cedar and move towards the fence a HUGE bull comes barreling thru the underbrush
and stops abruptly at the fence snorting and pawing...needless to say Holly the
Morgan did her best imitation of Arabian Teleport and dropped me where she had
been standing - this was the first and last time since for hitting the
ground. Now I sing to her...I think it's an old Steve Miller band
song...'Longhorns on the left of me, Big Bull on the right, Here I am, stuck in
the middle with youuuuuu!'. Singing works!
Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] Spike in Heart
Rate/Backpackers
The worst gremlins I ever encounter were runners doing
a 'hash' while I was riding with a friend on one of her TWHs.
A 'hash' is a foot race where runners follow markers left by a 'hare'
who laid out a route, with dead-ends, etc. It involves lots of
shouting back and forth between the runners. We could hear them, but
not see them. Well, not being able to see them threw the horse I was
on into a complete panic. He started sweating like crazy, and had
squirting diarreah. I could feel his heart pounding through the saddle. He
wanted to bolt, but I was able to hold him. I felt badly for him but
could not reassure him. we just left for home. The gal who
owned him lived in terror from then on of encountering a
'hash'.
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