2nd Competiton of the Year

Yesterday I had a great day at a Hunter Jumper competition! I rode twice in the afternoon  with Lysistrata and Mia, both in the Club 2 Designed Movement class. I was number 4 with Lizzie and 20th with Mia. I was pretty nervous in the morning but it wore off soon. Bertha had a rough day with an elimination on Mia and at least 4 faults on Lizzie in the 1m class. Louise was very pleased with her two rounds on her marvellous grey. She made no faults on her 1m class and one fault in the 1.10m style class. Then there was the 3 1/2 hour wait till my class. That long wait turned even longer when the whole thing ran late so I ended up competing around 3PMish instead of 1.30ish. Katie was there and competed on Special in my class but I did not see her as I was preparing Mia. Lysistrata was absolutely great, she was quite slow and wasn't rushing around which is a first. We had no faults except I held her back unconsciously and we broke into a walk for a moment when we were trotting and weaving in between cones. Grr. But its just one little fault in ten obstacles. Mia and I were a mess. Lizzie and Mia are very different, one of the differences being Lysistrata is 16 and Mia is 8. Mia was brilliant and jumped everything superbly, but I lost one of my stirrups on fence 4 so I jumped the remaining 5 (one obstacle being weaving around 4 cones at trot) with one stirrup. Good thing I knew how to jump with out stirrups! Because of my longer leg Mia rushed on to fence 6 and the double at 7. Because of that I failed the weaving thing even after I made a circle to try to get her under control. I failed to trot to fence 9 and then made a weird jump at fence 10 before falling off afterwards. XD. Elimination. Dang. Mia however was the talk of the club because after losing her severely incompetent rider (lol) she cantered over to some fences and jumped five and four backwards and finished with a circle! So here I am with blistered fingers, a bruised head, aching neck and back, a pulled muscle in my right calf and a severely bruised right calf bone. The results are back and I came 13th out of 23 on Lizzie and El./23 on Mia But hey! It was a great day and a lot of fun was had by all! The facilities were amazing and the EC was stunning. They had over 60 stalls and at least four arenas, although only one was used for the competition. I will try to get those videos up too so stay tuned!