August 28: The Horse Walks Like Me!

Monday, August 28, 2006

I went on the guest ride today. We went to Cowboy Cabin, except Ford couldn’t find it, so we did some riding off the trail, looking for it. The guests were good sports and nice people. 

I rode Wyatt and fell in love with him. The rhythm of his walk feels like I would walk and he speeds up and slows down in almost the same places I would. I liked the saddle, too. My left knee, which had begun to hurt 30-60 minutes into the other rides, never gave me any particular trouble. In fact, I only got uncomfortably stiff in the last hour, and it didn’t really hurt until I got off but couldn’t walk around much because I was holding Wyatt until Ford could tie him up.

Then the pain hit my knees, moved to make me nauseous, and then proceeded up to make my ears ring. At that point, Ford was close, so I gave him Wyatt and sat down to take a few deep breaths. As soon as I started walking around, I was fine and the stiffness quickly left.