In a moment of complete intoxication insanity Bad Eventer decided to compete three horses in one weekend.

Little did I know that it would be in the biggest downpour in the past decade.

I decided to withdraw before having to swim cross country…..

that meant I ended up doing 3 dressage tests and 3 stadium rounds before calling it quits.

It was a wet miserable day, but all ponies, grooms, and working students amazingly survived intact.

I really wasn’t sure if I would have enough adrenaline to survive THREE terror filled roller coaster rides cross country rounds in one day.

Fast forward to the next show.

This one was over 3 days, so I thought it’d be a piece of cake.

3 rides per day.

EASY!!!

Here’s a Bad Eventer tidbit. You can REQUEST the division you’d like to be in all you want, but in the end the show secretary gets to decide.

And they decided to put me in a division that did dressage and cross country the same day.

This meant another 6 ride day, but this time it was 3 dressage rides and three 6 minute CROSS COUNTRY rides…… not 3 itty bitty one-minute-plus stadium rounds………….

I DID survive the day……….

….. as I was hitting the wall at the end of the day…..

I remember adamantly saying that I never…..

EVER

wanted to do that again.

No way.

Not ever.

So……….

The next show was planned out to be somewhat relaxing, just riding two ponies.

Of course I was making the move up to Prelim…. with the baby………… (more on that to follow)

A big deal for me…….this IS the same horse that I was pretty sure would never get to Beginner Novice a year ago.

My farrier decided his only opportunity to shoe my horses would be at the show.

That meant I had to take ALL of them.

Of course that means hauling them a full day & paying for a third stall.

And I just

couldn’t

stand it.

So I called the show secretary at the last moment……..”Can I  p l e a s e  compete  three??”

Yes, yes, Bad Eventer competed three horses in one weekend AGAIN (and TWO of those at PRELIM!!)

But…… this really is the last time!

Really!!