RTES Endurance Ride II ; 2011

Last week. oh dis is last week's story okeh. me & hubby completed 40km in RTES Endurance Ride II, held in TiEP, Lembah Bidong, Terengganu.

i rode a lil cutiey mutiey pony belong to a friend. i should be riding Qalai'e actually...but hubby insisted to ride together. and i will be awkward if he ride that pony and i ride Qalai'e.

it must be so funny. it will be six-legged horse instead of four. ha ha

that pony i rode, is a beginner. that 40km was its first ever in life. and he completed successfully.

that was the first time i ride that horse (Ajill Putera). he is quite ok for a new horse. there was a phrase "if you want to know someone, take a look at who they be friend with." -> betul ke tidak? entah la. tapi lebih kurang macam tu lahh...the point is, Qalai'e also become a good boy during the ride, because his accompany is a good boy.

we actually kind of expecting those two guys would at least, jogs all the way of the first 5km. but thank god..they are as calm as home ridden. and the key point is, if you want to avoid struggling at the starting, take a lil' time for you and your horse ; let all or almost all competitors go first and you can slowly & clamly depart after 5-7 mins after flag off but don't take too long, it will be time wasting. (All participants are given 15 mins after the flag off)

we completed the 40km with average speed 9.8kmh. we done faster than that actually, but we spent a lot of time at the last water point coz our horses were like can't get enough of the water in the tank. they drank like hell, which made a sound like we drink water at the bottom of a glass, with straw. sllluuurrppp. sllluuurrppp.

and the one arrow down at the Gut Sound section goes up again. with overall 'A'. that is something to be proud of instead of anything else. la

p/s ; there were a lot of participants cheating, too. they took shortcut since they was no Check Point for 40km. but, who cares? remember, 40km is preparation for further distance. you won't get good result if you keep cheating like this and your horse will never get the fitness they need..

pictures are not available at the time being.

fall. again. and again. jatuh. lagi. dan lagi.

title dwibahasa. pooodah!

sungguh tidak pernah malu saya bagitahu orang saya jatuh. tidak ada apa yang perlu dimalukan. Ianya berpunca dari kecuaian sendiri.

previous entry, ingat lagi tak? pasal melatih kembali ex-race horse kan?

setakat jatuh biasa sangat. walau dah beberapa tulang patah, beberapa retak dan bakal patah pun, semangat saya untuk menunggang tidak pernah pudar. tidak walau sedikit. my passion will never fade off.

kerana saya tahu, bila kita mula menuggang dengan cara yang betul (the proper way), Insya ALLAH, peluang nak jatuh tu dapat dihindari...sekurang-kurangnya kalau jatuh pun, "jatuh bermaruah" (fall with honour la kononya), bukan lah "jatuh bodo" je. kalau yang itu, malu tau nak gebang2.

dan, oleh kerana saya blejar menunggang dulu dengan Insturktor yang diiktiraf, saya memang dapat kesan punca kejatuhan saya sebelum orang lain bagitahu.

dan untuk kes semalam, sewaktu menunggang bekas pelumba pecut tu, saya dah tercapai satu tahap konfiden yang terlampau yang menyebabkan saya memegang 'Rein' (tali kekang) dengan hanya satu tangan, dan memang ini bukan masalah besar, yang menjadi masalah dan punca saya makan pasir semalam adalah kerana saya pada masa itu sedang melalui pagar dan terlalu hampir dengan nya.

kuda saya masih belum begitu disiplin bila tiba hal pagar ni. keinginan untuk balik kekandang begitu kuat dalam dirinya sehinggakan tiada yang pernah berani lalu hampir dengan 'gate' tu sewaktu menunggang nya.

cuma saya. ya saya.

saya yang leka dengan perbualan bersama incik asben, kurang sedar kuda tu dah lain macam excited nya. (kan saya dah kata,konfiden terlampau) sewaktu memberi tahu suami bahawa saya perlukan 2 jam lagi untuk mendera DaQalai'e hari ini, secara kebetulan ada 2 ekor lagi kuda yang ditunggang oleh kanak2 riang melalui depan kami secara bertentangan arah(menuju ke gate, sedangkan saya bergerak menjauhi gate) dalam pergerakan 'Canter' ,

DaQa terus berpusing ke kiri sepantas kilat dan bersedia memecut. sewaktu pusingan dilakukan nya, saya telah kehilangan imbangan badan dan sudah tercabut kaki daripada 'Stirrup', tambahan pula, 'rein' dipegang terlalu longgar dan kedudukan saya senget ke kanan, dengan hanya tak sampai 30% badan saya berada di atas belakang nya. saya tiada tempat berpaut dan akhirnya.......pasir yang memutih menjadi corak di baju dan jodhpur hitam saya.

ini kali kedua saya jatuh dengan DaQalai'e dan kali ke berapa ribu keseluruhan nya......yang penting, selepas saya berjaya dibuangnya, dia berlari sekuat tenaga ke arah stable sehingga menghasilkan percikan api di lantai simen. saya terpaksa mengejar jauh dari belakang untuk mengheretnya semula ke padang dan meneruskan tunggangan.

apa yang saya tahu, kalau kita jatuh, selagi tiada kecederaan serius, kita perlu naik semula ke atas kuda itu secepat mungkin sebelum perasaan takut mengusai diri. itulah yang saya lakukan.

oh DaQalai'e impianku untuk mencapai 40km pertamamu bersama-sama, hujung minggu ini. (18-20 Feb, RTES Endurance Ride I 2011I). mampukah kudratku mengatasi semangat juangmu yang tak pernah kenal erti lelah...walaupun tubuhmu sudah tinggal tulang ku kerjakan hari-hari.....

Re-train an Ex-race horse

DaQalai'e, my horse is actually was a racer. he retired at the age of 7...quite long time he had in racing field because most of the race horses start their career at 3 years old and get deleted by the age 4 or 5 if they didn't performed well, injured etc..

he had not been much an easy-going horse since he arrived and he is well-known at the club by nickname such as " kuda gila", "kuda samseng" etc because of his refusal to many things we ask him to do. those stable boys found it hard to work with him, because, there was a time both of us(me & hubby) couldn't ride him because we're focusing more on Sylva, and we pay the boys to ride & train him. but, from one to two, two to three stable boys we hired, all of them can't disciplined DaQalai'e and end up laid on the ground thrown by him... ;P

actually, he had been ridden by 7 person so far, me & hubby, 4 stable boys and 1 friend. 6 person end up "makan pasir" with him. the only person who never fall is his friend, who like to work with ex-racer and owned few at home, and one of his ex-racer won a race organized by locals. see the entry here. but, apparently that is not something good, though. those who rode him & fell mostly because we fought the horse, but this one person, never fought the horse's demand. he just follow all the decision that horse made. if right, he goes right, if left, he goes left, if the horse rushed to the gate & stable ; he ride far in the field, keeping distance from the gate.

I so much feels like, there is no use letting a person who couldn't discipline a horse to ride our horse. wasting time. and to be the climax of that person's "trying to be a trainer", DaQalai'e had a back pain & wounded on the right side of his mouth. Ever since then, I urged my hubby to focus more on DaQalai'e himself. and after gathering his old equipments, we finally managed to get a complete set for lunging. includes of a lunging whip, cavesson, & a lunging rein.

31st Jan is the 1st day we started working with him...and thank GOD, he is so amazing to work with. it makes me cry and keep apologizing for the past 5-6 months that we had ignore his talent.

at the first 10 minutes, he actually bolted a little bit..but that is normal...he is freaking out to see the long whip, and moreover, we don't have proper lunging ring there...so we just lunge him in a square paddock, so he quite wanted to draw his own line apart from obeying his trainer's circle.

he is rushing to the gate...look at the trainer's hand, both is holding him back into the circle

see the stress on the rein...and the cavesson is pulled to his right

SEE THE VIDEO HERE

after 15 minutes......

he lowered his head, which is a good sign of acceptation..can see loop of the rein

Finally....obeying orders quietly, no more refusal, and managed to keep his legs on the track all the time. and quite exhausted.

DaQalai'e maybe saying "no body ever make me work this much. i'll throw them away first before the could make me work my ass this long.(40 minutes). but this man...pheww! he made me work without bothering to be on me, and held a long whip in his hand! OMG!!"