The sporting life

[glenatron]

Tomorrow evening will be the first dressage competition for Team Iris. I'm pretty confident it will go well, given all the things we have in our favour:

• I have had to borrow a bridle because I always take the nosebands off mine because they look silly with western gear and then I lose them.
• Turns out the bridle I have borrowed is actually black, with a brown noseband. Black bridle with a brown noseband and reins to go with a black saddle is a look, right?
• The saddle is old and treeless and well past its best but it at least falls within the rules, pretty much.
• I don't own a stock tie or white gloves, so we're about to go out to buy some.
• My black long boots are the cheapest possible rubber ones.
• Until Saturday I thought it was a different test, so I haven't had much time to memorise it. I think I've got a handle on it though.
• The only problem with my memorisation is that I keep ending up at the wrong end of the school by the end of the test and I can't quite work out why I am there. Other than that it's going fine.
• Our corners in canter aren't very good, but mostly we can now make a transition on the right rein without a buck.

Fortunately dressage is a notoriously open and friendly sport, so I'm sure it will be fine and nobody will be judging us for our dire apparel or terrible performance.

Current forecast: Hilarious fiasco.

Comments

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

I think I've mostly memorised it now- there is a lot of trotting right around the arena early in the test so it's easy to underestimate where that ends you up. Also in my mental picture I had the whole thing upside down so all the letters were reversed.

[re-vised.livejournal.com]

Good! I'm glad you figured it out, because it will ease the jitters!