First long endurance training session of the season - Vlog 221 - Beth Endurance

Описание: I took Estrid to her first training session around Cannock chase and I was thrilled with her! There was a tree across our path which meant I couldn't go along the usual track and so I got entirely lost in the woods trying to find a way around, she went over all sorts of terrain, cambers, steep slopes, boggy bits, rocky sections, the lot and she didn't put a hoof wrong, not once did she question me and I really enjoyed spending time exploring with her.

For me a short training session is 5-10km, medium 10-20km and long would be 20km+. So really we did a medium training ride as we covered 17km and spent just over 2 hours in the saddle, but this is double what we have been doing so a great place to start the 'proper' endurance training, it was also much more technical terrain and steeper than we have been focusing on so more than hard enough work for Estrid who actually completed the session with ease!

I'm slowly building her up with lots more hill work this season compared to last year as we're hoping to do our first 80km. We don't really have much access to decent hills (this is where I miss living in Wales) but I'm hoping to trailer out at least twice a month to get some good ascents in. We will probably use the gallops about once a month, for a bit of slow continuous work, especially with the variable weather making ground conditions tricky. I still want to do a bit of cross training with our schooling and some jumping, just to keep things fun and take a bit of (self induced) pressure off our endurance goals and mix it up with fun experiences.

Thanks for watching,
Beth