A "Watt" appreciation post is in order and perhaps even long overdue. We are still out competing together, last weekend a CER80, which had been a while due to my heart condition. And or course we have done twice that distance in the past, so it should be easy but both of us are getting that bit older. More noticeably for me I'm as not as ...
What was your first thought seeing this picture of Watt and me cantering on these gallops?Most thoughts will have been positive: a lovely bit of cantering, "oh I would love that", and some of you can nearly feel the air passing their face because you know how it feels to have a nice canter on a good surface.Snapshots like these: of a rider doing th...
This is an old piece (4 years ago to be precise) I wrote after being part of the Dutch team for the 2019 European Championships. It still resonates very much with me, especially now I have taken a little break from endurance until the youngsters are old enough to start. Watt and me will be doing other fun stuff in the mean time. Have a read, s...
This is the seventh tutorial in the introductory series "Starting with endurance" called: The difference between national and international (FEI) endurance National level endurance is the endurance of the country you live in. It has national rules and usually distances go from 20 to 160 km and usually also some options for multiple...
This is last tutorial in the introductory series "Starting with endurance" called: What makes a successful (major distance) endurance horse? Has the endurance bug bitten? Or are you quite a competitive person and want to try and really go for it? In that case you might need that really talented endurance horse (or perhaps you already hav...
