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My horse looked a lot better than I did after my first LD. I was very
stupid and wore jeans. It was May in the SE. It was hot. It was muggy.
I have scars. 

My horse didn't have a sore muscle in his body. Nor was he all that
tired. I drove straight home (1.5 hours) after the ride and he went
flying through his pasture to bully his pasture mates (normal behavior
for him).

Nope, I definitely got the raw end of that deal. (pun intended)

My next ride I wore panty hose under my jeans and I faired a lot better. 

Life circumstances dictated a hiatus from endurance and the selling of
my horse. So I guess people might have thought, ha, she couldn't hack
it.  I did come back to endurance, but I use a saddle because
that's what is best with this horse. I still like to ride bareback and
I do whenever I ride my other horse and if he wasn't so darn lazy one
might see me bareback on the endurance (or LD) trail with him.

I do like to have "stuff" with me, though, so a saddle is very handy for stuff. :-)

April
Nashville, TN

On 4/26/05, mkrumlaw@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mkrumlaw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

During my years of ride management I've had three people try to ride an
LD bareback, and one a 50.  All but one of the 25 mile riders finished
the ride as did the 50.  To be honest though, they didn't look very good
after the ride and most of the horses backs were really sore.  As they
were all different riders I only remember seeing one of them on the trail
again, and we only saw that person for 3 rides that season and never
again.