2015 Q3 Analysis and Q4 Goals

Q3 Goals (July, August, September)

TC
pending job status
- vet check

DONE

- buy the horse! If he doesn't pass the vet, start shopping but assuming he does pass... 

DONE

- get my saddle fitter out
Not quite yet, emailing people now, he seems to be doing fine and vet said he didn't need it right away

- move him to a new barn
Moving within the next couple of days!

- buy a snaffle bridle for him IF we're going to show

Not going to show just yet, this will be necessary in the spring

MINE

doesn't matter about job
- continue to work on the canter quality and roundness

definitely better than it was before but needs so so much more

- continue working on the throughness to the left at all gaits

SO much better, he's basically even on both sides most days

- build his confidence in being reliably forward and responsive

Much better, even working on engagement now, I still get naggy so I need to stop that

- continue working on lateral balance and suppleness

Both are a million times better, we have leg yields and shoulder-in, he needs more confidence in those

- work on transitions into canter and from canter to trot

Both are better but not quite perfect yet, the downwards are better than the upwards right now

- continue to make leg yields better in trot

They're getting okay, I need to make them a more main focus of my rides

- get the stretchy trot solid

Definitely getting there, not solid yet though, and definitely not happening as well in new places

- ride in another clinic or two

Rode with BBG in early August and late September!

- ride a training level test at a schooling show

No more schooling shows for me this year

- think about doing a rated show at T1 and T2

That was pushed to the spring and maybe even the summer

Rico

- ride him as much as I can manage

DONE, probably not as much as I possibly could have, but hopefully I can still ride him every month or so when I can get down to visit him

- go to the beach 

DONE, it was so fun

LOVE

My Riding

- continue to work on my position

Definitely getting better, regular lessons might help. The biggest issue now is my left hand (which is just me regressing) and my accidental nagging at times.

- sit on my right seatbone better

This was a problem with my SI joint and that was fixed 

- LOOK UP 

NO!

- audit some clinics

Axel Steiner in July with Peony and Nicole, GHC in September, as well as watched a few Tracey and Katy lessons.

Grad School/Work

- find a damn job

YES! I'm so happy with it :)

- quit my part time job

DONE, wow that was a fiasco, so glad that it's done

- finish first draft of thesis

Intro is done but my discussion isn't happening, partially due to drama outside of my control

- finish final draft of thesis
Yeah that's not happening, there is a lot of drama (see above)

- submit thesis
Nope, not happening this semester

- defend? I forget when I will be doing this

Nope, very unfortunate that I'm not able to finish this semester.

Ponies > thesis problems always

Msc

- find a place to live after finding a job

DONE, love my apartment, although considering a move to a 1br despite the expense due to now having paid a second month on a 2br without finding a suitable roommate, fuck this area

- continue with crossfit as long as I can

I broke myself and then moved, no more crossfit for me until my wrist is fixed

- read a book, a real book, not a journal article that I try to pass off as a book

YES I DID THIS OMG I DID IT! It was a book on statistics though. Does that count?

Q4 Goals (October, November, December)

TC
- survive moving to a new barn
- survive the beginning of El Nino, try not to get washed away
- work on getting him quicker to respond to at least the aids he knows
- work on the free walk/stretchy trot
- improve throughness and straightness in transitions (esp the trot-halt and halt-trot)

- improve working trot, more engaged and start playing a little bit with the idea of collection

- start shoulder-in at the trot
- steeper leg yield at the trot with better throughness and suppleness
- really address the canter issues- rounder, more balanced, more rideable

- roundness in the trot to canter transitions

- lots of trail rides before it gets wintery

Needs work...

My Riding

- actually get my Gold medal (a year and a month after earning it- I got it in the 2015 show season *technically* so they award them at the end of the year... which is December 2015)

- look up
- fix whatever is happening with my left wrist when I hold the whip
- strengthen my shoulders and open up my chest a bit more
- work on my sometimes talkative lower leg
- audit another clinic?

Msc

- fix my wrist
- if the wrist is better, go to PT
- work toward trying to get back to crossfit/weightlifting
- get a cat... maybe... shhh
- get in the habit of reading books again, this has been so hard due to my rejection of anything remotely academic after grad school
- do well at work, at least better know what I'm doing by then