Instead, I found this.
What the everloving WHAT?
(Side note, anyone think I can ask for an FEI TV subscription on the wedding registry? I have valid reasons involving marital harmony for asking...)
Bel Joeor: Life + Horses
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
WEG Eventing Video
No, not the video you think. I didn't catch any of the livestream - just followed commentary and live scoring - and I did some YouTube searches today to see if any rounds had been released. I was curious to see what the course actually looked like.
Instead, I found this.
Instead, I found this.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Google Ride Calendar Experiment
I'm experimenting with a new way to track my rides: Google Calendar. I know some of you use it; I think I must have gotten the idea from Hannah.
We'll see if it sticks, but 3 weeks in it's been a good way to track what we've done and to project the coming week. In each entry's details, I go a little more in depth about the ride that day - whether the longeing intervals or the route we took to achieve our mileage that day.
Here's what it's looked like so far - you'll see the planned ahead rides are question marks.
We'll see if it sticks, but 3 weeks in it's been a good way to track what we've done and to project the coming week. In each entry's details, I go a little more in depth about the ride that day - whether the longeing intervals or the route we took to achieve our mileage that day.
Here's what it's looked like so far - you'll see the planned ahead rides are question marks.
Different Worlds: Adult Camp at the Barn
It is adult camp week at the barn, and one of those times of year when I realize that despite living in a sleepy corner of Vermont, I actually board at a high-powered dressage barn. (The other times include when they load the rig to go to Wellington for the winter, and the going-away party for same.)
The adult campers are generally lovely people, and they look like they're having a ton of fun! That said, they are mostly (though not all) of the socioeconomic background that means they can take a week with their horse to drive to Vermont for a pricey adult horse camp. They are all impeccably put together and have very nice horses and I usually spend the week sort of sneaking around the edges. My inner rebel often feels the need to ride in ratty breeches, half-chaps, Ariat sneakers, and bareback all week.
Last night, I took Tris out for a relatively short field hack, mixing it up with some short stretches of trot. (Side note: Endomondo said we topped out at 20mph last night, which seems absolutely absurd unless it was sensitive enough to track the swing of my arm while we trotted up the big hill?)
When I brought him out to the wash stall to hose him off for a minute or two, I saw two adult camp riders leaning over one's cell phone and overheard the following statement, which I swear to you I am repeating verbatim:
"So that's our house in Montauk...ignore the construction, we're having some updates done."
Yeah.
The adult campers are generally lovely people, and they look like they're having a ton of fun! That said, they are mostly (though not all) of the socioeconomic background that means they can take a week with their horse to drive to Vermont for a pricey adult horse camp. They are all impeccably put together and have very nice horses and I usually spend the week sort of sneaking around the edges. My inner rebel often feels the need to ride in ratty breeches, half-chaps, Ariat sneakers, and bareback all week.
Last night, I took Tris out for a relatively short field hack, mixing it up with some short stretches of trot. (Side note: Endomondo said we topped out at 20mph last night, which seems absolutely absurd unless it was sensitive enough to track the swing of my arm while we trotted up the big hill?)
When I brought him out to the wash stall to hose him off for a minute or two, I saw two adult camp riders leaning over one's cell phone and overheard the following statement, which I swear to you I am repeating verbatim:
"So that's our house in Montauk...ignore the construction, we're having some updates done."
Yeah.
Monday, September 1, 2014
Ch-Ch-Changes: Introducing Bel Joeor
One big change, one small change.
First: I'm changing the blog title. I've never been wild with "An Eventful Life." It was a bit generic, a bit boring-punny instead of clever-punny, and let's face it: my life is just not all that exciting, and I prefer it that way.
New title: Bel Joeor
Bel Joeor comes from Tristan's show name, which is "Tristan's Bel Joeor." It means beautiful player. In one early French telling of the legend of Tristan, his horse's name is Bel Joeor. (More about Tristan's renaming here.)
I'm also putting a label on a gradual shift that I've been doing away from eventing. It's a little bit sadness at the way the sport is going, a little bit unsuitable horse, a little bit lack of funding, a little bit current location and circumstances. I've always been interested in all the varieties of horse + human, not just one sport, so it was time this blog officially represented that.
I was bored with the standard Blogspot template, so I tinkered around a little bit. I stuck with one of their layouts + color schemes, because my artistic eye is wholly nonexistent, but I did put together a header. I'd talked about doing this before, but finally got around to it.
So if you visit the blog's main page, you'll now see some summery pictures of us out and about. I plan to rotate them with the seasons.
First: I'm changing the blog title. I've never been wild with "An Eventful Life." It was a bit generic, a bit boring-punny instead of clever-punny, and let's face it: my life is just not all that exciting, and I prefer it that way.
New title: Bel Joeor
Bel Joeor comes from Tristan's show name, which is "Tristan's Bel Joeor." It means beautiful player. In one early French telling of the legend of Tristan, his horse's name is Bel Joeor. (More about Tristan's renaming here.)
I'm also putting a label on a gradual shift that I've been doing away from eventing. It's a little bit sadness at the way the sport is going, a little bit unsuitable horse, a little bit lack of funding, a little bit current location and circumstances. I've always been interested in all the varieties of horse + human, not just one sport, so it was time this blog officially represented that.
I was bored with the standard Blogspot template, so I tinkered around a little bit. I stuck with one of their layouts + color schemes, because my artistic eye is wholly nonexistent, but I did put together a header. I'd talked about doing this before, but finally got around to it.
So if you visit the blog's main page, you'll now see some summery pictures of us out and about. I plan to rotate them with the seasons.
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