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The Twenty Eleven Ride, Part 7

This is the third of three articles that I wrote for Endurance News after the 2001 XP ride.  This one was about the accomplishments of the horses and riders.  It was pretty amazing when you think about it.  Here is an excerpt:
230 horses were ridden 67,400 AERC miles by 104 riders in eight weeks. That [...]

The Twenty Eleven Ride, Part 4

This was the 2nd of 3 articles I wrote for Endurance News following the 2001 XP.
XP’loring the Trail, 2000 Miles of Memories.  Be sure to click on the link to read the entire thing!  If you want to read my diary from the ride and see photos from all 8 weeks, click here.  Karen
Talk [...]

I know you wanna go faster, and I don’t care!

I said that to Bo a lot today.  It was funny, kind of like the song “Jimmy Crack Corn”….only it was more like “I know you wanna go faster and I don’t care…you wanna go faster, and I don’t care…we ain’t gonna go faster…so there!  (because I do care)  Not that there isn’t anything wrong [...]

Endurance riding goals for 2010: no real plans + what I learned in 2009

I’m a little slow with this post but haven’t had a lot of time to really think about planning what I’d like to accomplish this ride season with my two horses.
What have the rest of you come up with – anybody have anything to share?  Please post links to other endurance riders who have posted [...]

Death Valley Warmup Ride Report, Part 1

I’ll start with posting photos along with links to the results.  Then next, will work on a ride story.
We had a fantastic time at the ride.  Bo and Chief both got to do 50 miles of competition and well as mark the trail a couple of days before the ride.
Click here for the results in [...]

What came in the mail Saturday

I love it when the horses reach new milestones.  Interesting that it worked out this year that on the same day Chief reached 9,000 miles I reached 24,000.  It is kind of weird to think that I have ridden 15,000 miles *without Chief*.  Every single mile on the endurance trail that Chief has done has [...]

Well, it’s official – Cheefy’s got his 9k!

The AERC office got the results online today from the Grand Canyon ride – so now it’s official – Chief has his 9,000 miles!  Actually, he’s at 9,075.
It’s kind of hard to believe.  I dunno – like maybe it’s not real?  Where did the time go?  Just how did we rack up that many miles [...]

First album of photos from Grand Canyon XP, 2009

I started my photo albums from the Grand Canyon ride with the middle day – because that’s the day Chief reached 9,000 lifetime miles .  It seems like I was just starting him.  My how time flies.  He has really been a nice horse for me.
It’s definitely something to celebrate when you have a [...]

Congratulations to the 2009 XP Medal horses!

Here is a list of the XP Medal horses for 2009.
Photo of each of the Gold Medal horses with their barn names and riders are above.  Thanks to Steve Bradley for the use of the photos!
In order to qualify for Gold, Silver or Bronze level the same horse and rider must complete the following at [...]

Grand Canyon Day 3: 9,000 Mile Horse!

Photo by Steve Bradley. Chief made 9k AERC miles today plus XP Gold Medal! Riding Bo tomorrow, I figure Chief deserves to get a day off and I really want to ride Bo. It’s a tossup though, because I sure love riding Cheefy…we had a great day today. Weather is beautiful! [...]

XP Year to Date Results; Grand Canyon 5-Day coming up!

Please help nominate Dave Rabe for Hall of Fame

This is short notice, however — I thought I’d do what I could to help out.  I already sent a letter to the Hall of Fame Committee in support of Dave Rabe for HOF.
If anybody would like to see what I wrote in order to help them with their letter, let me know.
Here is a [...]

Miles and miles and miles….

It sure seems like the miles have just flown by this ride season.  The new AERC point standings came out today and  Chief and Bo are both doing pretty well.  They are first and second in my weight division plus Chief is 2nd overall in the West region plus is now also placing 5th in [...]

XP & Sunrise Ranch Rides YTD Results

I just finished updating the year to date rider mileage results to include the Fort Schellbourne XP ride.  We are also keeping track of each of the riders horses mileage as well.  At the end of the year awards will be given based upon rider mileage as well as horse mileage.
There are three categories of [...]

200 down, 50 to go

Tomorrow is the last day for the Fort Schellbourne XP. So far I have ridden Chief 200 miles and hope to ride him 50 more and make the whole 250 on him.  The weather has been really great all week and the trails are stunning this year with more wildflowers than I have ever seen [...]