Saturday 2 March 2013

Walk on!


Challenge - Learn a new activity

Our university has a programme called Trysport, where you can, well, try a sport. It could be anything from rock-climbing to football and you simply pay £5 for five weeks – that’s only £1 a session. So the girls and I decided to try our hands at horse-riding. Normally a one-hour group session could set you back up to £20, so we thought ‘£1 for an hour’s session, it’s a bargain!’
However, it was six o'clock in the evening so it was dark and mighty cold but it was so much fun. I haven’t been on a horse in about twelve years so it was a surprise that I could remember everything so well. Jenny used to ride quite a bit so she was well on her way, but Nicola hasn't really ridden before.
It was great fun but the only downside was as there's three Trysport sessions in a row and they use the same ponies they've got a bit bored by the time it comes to our group, not wanting to walk let alone trot. Towards the end we had to go over a jump but it was so low the horse just trots over it, but mine didn't want to do that so he just kicked it out of the way haha!
We had some beautiful ponies – Jenny’s had a moustache! I couldn't wait for our next session – the instructor said we would be cantering and jumping by the time we were finished!


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