{"id":5648,"date":"2012-05-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ataa.mattharris.tech\/2012\/05\/21\/tekes-at-the-mt-adams-endurance-ride\/"},"modified":"2012-05-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T00:00:00","slug":"tekes-at-the-mt-adams-endurance-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/2012\/05\/21\/tekes-at-the-mt-adams-endurance-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekes at the Mt. Adams Endurance Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cathy Leddy of Cascade Gold Akhal-Tekes<\/a> Reports:
Monica and I went down to the Mt. Adams endurance ride this past weekend.\u00a0 This is a great ride \u2013 about 6 hours away, nice camping, just about perfect trails and views to kill for.\u00a0 We got there Friday night, got settled in and vetted and went for a short ride.\u00a0 My ankles were not happy, so we didn\u2019t go far.\u00a0 We did some visiting around camp and then turned in for our early start the next day.\u00a0 We met Lisa Preston, who was there with her young Teke-Arab filly for her first LD ride.\u00a0 There was one other Teke cross there with Mona Thacker.\u00a0 Her Shiraz has been competing for quite a few years and has been racking up the miles.<\/p>\n

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Saturday morning dawned and we got ready.\u00a0 The weather was perfect \u2013 60ish and sunny.\u00a0 Our plan was that I\u2019d start behind the leaders and go fast, to save my ankles, and Monica and Danny would meander out later.\u00a0 As this is only his 3rd ride, she\u2019s being very conservative (and rightly so).\u00a0 So, we waited until the majority of the 75 (yes, 75 riders in the 25 mile ride) went out. \u00a0We walked out of camp after a bit of excitement \u2013 someone\u2019s horse decided to warm itself up just as we were walking to the start line.\u00a0 They caught it after a few minutes and then we walked out on a loose rein.\u00a0 As soon as we got to the woods (there was about a half mile of pavement to walk on) we started our trot and passed and passed and passed people.\u00a0 Galen LOVES to pass other horses.\u00a0 We finished our first loop of 13 miles in around 1 \u00bd hours and vetted through just fine.\u00a0 We only had a short hold, so we went back to the camper and got resupplied and a bite to eat.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

We headed out on our second loop and met Monica and Danny coming in as we went out.\u00a0 The horses felt that we should stand around and talk about it, but a small amount of \u2018persuasion\u2019 and Galen and I were off.\u00a0 This next loop was 12 miles and we ended up leap-frogging with the same group of people most of the way.\u00a0 We completed this loop in about the same as the first \u2013 my total ride time was around 3 hours and 40 minutes (not sure of the exact time) and my only real mistake was not getting off and walking him in the last half mile.\u00a0 I was worried about my ankle \u2013 getting off and not being able to walk would have been a pain.\u00a0 So, it took him a few minutes to pulse down to the ride pulse of 60 and we ended up in 11th place.\u00a0 If I\u2019d have walked in (and he was pulsed down), we would have been 8th.\u00a0 To explain, on the LD ride, ride time stops when you cross the finish and are at a pulse of 60.\u00a0 The 50s and above ride times stopped when they crossed the finish.\u00a0 But, he vetted through just fine and we were done in plenty of time to go back and chat with friends and wait for Monica and Danny to come in.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Monica had had a lovely ride and Danny was complemented on his \u2018metronome\u2019 trot on the trail.\u00a0 He\u2019s really blossoming this year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

More and more people are recognizing the Tekes at rides \u2013 lots of \u201chow do you pronounce that\u201d and we handed out several breed info booklets.\u00a0 I bet we see more and more at the rides in upcoming years!\u00a0 I know that people riding behind us are often amazed at how smooth and spook free our horses are.\u00a0 Love it!<\/p>\n

All in all, a lovely weekend.\u00a0\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cathy Leddy of Cascade Gold Akhal-Tekes Reports:Monica and I went down to the Mt. Adams endurance ride this past weekend.\u00a0 This is a great ride \u2013 about 6 hours away, nice camping, just about perfect trails and views to kill for.\u00a0 We got there Friday night, got settled in and vetted and went for a..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82504444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82504444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}