Writing these reports is tricky, what to include, where to start, how long to make it! Do people even care? I’m never sure but anyway here goes. I’ll start at the logical beginning of the trip which saw my sister (number one crew) and I getting up at 5.30 to make our plane to fly out to Pisa on Thursday morning. I had an awful nights sleep, not an uncommon occurrence for me, but I did arrive in Pisa feeling slightly jaded. Stepping off the airplane you could feel the immense heat and humidity. Even though we’ve been having abnormally hot weather at home, it just isn’t comparable. The only way I can possibly describe it is that the air felt thicker and just standing still breathing felt more
Just a short five weeks ago Nahdia came into my life. With me for sales livery, I knew from day one I had to not let myself get attached. The first day I knew she would make a good endurance pony, pacing the fence at a canter for six hours straight! Since then, she’s come a very long way. Nahdia was quite skinny, lacking top line and all round super stressy. I knew it was going to take a long time to get her going the way I wanted her to and we are by no means there yet, but we are certainly making strides in the right direction. Since her arrival the plan has always been the 80km at Thoresby but there were so many factors in the build-up which put my head in a bit of a spin as to whether to
