Thursday, December 29, 2016

2017 Goals

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- Stay healthy and happy physically and mentally
- Continue to see steady improvement and be able to put this whole suspensory ordeal in the rear-view mirror this year
- At the proper time, build back strength and fitness (through hiking and dressage that will be intensely focused at the walk for a few months)
- Achieve a more acute understanding of the aids and get her to accept contact
- Teach her lateral movements under saddle
- Build her body back in a more balanced fashion that it was preceding her injury
- Enjoy many slow miles of trails (whereby "slow" is mostly walking and meandering and "many" is any amount >20 miles for the year)

Griffin

- Stay healthy and happy physically and mentally
- Build and develop our prowess at dressage and jumping
- Travel and compete in at least two shows
- Ride in at least two clinics with Stephen
- Take at least two lessons with a jumping trainer
- Spend some time perfecting our gallop - something I've never focused on before

Stan

- Stay healthy and happy physically and mentally
- Continue to build fitness with the goal of having a sleek, muscular athlete who doesn't look his age
- Ride > 200 miles on him for the year
- Compete in at least one LD

Kenai

- Stay healthy and happy physically and mentally
- Continue to build strength
- Maintain a healthy weight and diet
- Keep him comfortable on whatever combination of supplements help him the most

Myself

- Stay healthy and happy physically and mentally
- Lead climb above a 5.8
- Conquer at least one trail on Canaan Mountain without hike-a-biking
- Bike North Fork Mountain again faster than before
- Build a stronger body
- Advance my mandolin skill
- Build my photography and editing prowess as well as my small photography side business

10 comments:

  1. Well, that last goal is already well on its way! I cannot wait to see you work towards all of these in the new year, and I hope that we see each other more in 2017 than we did in '16.

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    1. Agreed. I'll be living an hour closer to you so hopefully things will work out better.

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  2. Great goals - I hope to see some of their successful completion in person!!!

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  3. Great goals and good luck with everything!

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  4. Great goals!! Can't wait to follow your adventures in the new year.

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    1. I hope they're worth following haha, thank you!

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  5. That's a lot of goals, but you do have a lot of horses :). I'm excited to see Stan do an LD.

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    1. Oh my gosh, do I know it! So many goals, but I tried to make them all achievable. Griffin seems to have the biggest and most difficult year ahead, everything beyond that should (in theory) fall into place with time and patience.

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