I know it’s a very small achievement really but it’s a bit of a milestone for me. I’m in my late 50s and I started having riding lessons again last summer and decided that this time I was going to crack it - I’d had a few lessons at a different school the year before but didn’t feel I was making any progress despite spending a fortune.
I had 8 weeks of lunge lessons over the summer which helped enormously and started cantering in the autumn. It took a while to get the hang of it but it suddenly clicked and since then I’ve been able to go on hacks with the school horses. I had a lesson today and cantered circles for the first time - they weren’t perfect but they were definitely circular and we didn’t break canter at all so I could do a circles then go large then do another circle. There was horizontal rain all the way through my lesson but I finished beaming!
We’re going to try to bring my daughter’s old boy (who I’ve sort of inherited ) back into light work this summer as long as the vet’s happy with him and at this rate I’ll feel confident enough to take him hacking.
Not much point to this post but wanted to share with people who’d understand!