{"id":3064,"date":"2010-04-10T23:03:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T22:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2010-04-11T06:52:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T05:52:35","slug":"nerves-nerves-nerves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3064","title":{"rendered":"Nerves, nerves, nerves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>pre-competition nerves starting to hit right now<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We plan on leaving the yard at 11.30 tomorrow morning. Our times are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dressage = 15.16<\/li>\n<li>Show-jumping = 16.30<\/li>\n<li>Cross-country = 17.10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I went down there this afternoon to walk the cross-country and have a good look around at the layout.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to wind myself up over the show-jumping, I don&#8217;t know why it&#8217;s so critical in my head, but the show-jumping is scarier than the cross-country.<\/p>\n<p>The cross-country course is nice, it flows evenly from start to finish, the fences are well-built, the track follows a simple outwards\/homewards pattern and the going underfoot is just perfect.<\/p>\n<p>I reckon that the optimum time is going to be somewhere in the 5m 10s &#8211; 5m 20s range; it is quite a long course, we might have to push and really motor around to get close to that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve taken photos of every fence. Where there are big spreads, drops and ditches, I have taken side-views too. This helps me to remember the route, the overall compass of the track (where it twists, turns and doubles back) and also, to help me remember which fences I might need to ask Tom for a little more effort.<\/p>\n<p>There were several falls while I was walking the cross-country today. If we return home smiling and unscathed tomorrow I&#8217;ll reduce the size of the photographs of the fences, and post them online.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent ages this evening revisiting the route down to Larkhill. Eventually, and after a lot of thought, I&#8217;ve decided to reject the route that Google Maps wanted me to drive.<\/p>\n<p>If I was in a car, sure, I&#8217;d go their way.<\/p>\n<p>But would I attempt those twisty roads in a 10-T lorry with two horses onboard?<\/p>\n<p>No way.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit of a yard outing tomorrow. Laura, Camille and I are taking one horse each round. Owen is competing three &#8211; maybe four.<\/p>\n<p>Time for bed. Hope I sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pre-competition nerves starting to hit right now We plan on leaving the yard at 11.30 tomorrow morning. Our times are: Dressage = 15.16 Show-jumping =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}