Ha ha instead of being afraid before and during my rides i seem to have progressed (I think its a progression 
) to being scared afterwards!!!! Things could have soooo easily NOT have gone our way. i am very grateful to the guy who steered us up the right path and I am going to make a sign and laminate it and pin it to the fence.
Just been out for a 5 mile ride – came back down a marked bridleway despite being told it was really busy – thought we would be brave and go and have a look so we found it eventually. We got to the eco compost place and started riding down (it would have been a really long way back by now) but am worrying about the amount of traffic when some guy comes out waving to us. We go back and talk to him and it turns out that the bridle path doesn’t run down the road but there is a track to one side. Well i think he may have saved Rosie and I from a serious injury or worse! The road is split so there are two paths, both one way, so you come up one road and down the other with no passing paces and it was really busy – bin trucks, vehicle carriers and all sorts bombing up and down - we were so glad to be on the path away from them all. We get to the bottom, go through the sports club and come out just the wrong side of the mini roundabout near the airport – walks down the pavement – fine. Rosie is a bit ansty at the traffic but one guy stops to let us go – only for someone else to overtake him! I did swear at him quite loudly!!! Anyway – get to a small section where theres just normal pavement and a ditch to the side. Just as we are going past this bit (which is only 50 metres) bin truck comes along – slows down but not much and just as he is besides us Rosie spooks!!! I very nearly pooed my pants! The truck was close enough for me to touch, theres a ditch the other side and she’s freaking!!!!!
I am so so so grateful that we have that one rein stop and that i have used it enough times to not have to think about it. I pulled her up tight as there is absolutely nowhere for us to go - lorry one side, ditch the other and my friend on her horse in front. In fact I don’t know how she didn’t scrape her butt on the lorry but the lorry keeps going and we walk on! Phew! That could have been really nasty.
She is a bit on her toes at larger bits of traffic but we keep going steadily, as the path got wider and we stayed facing the oncoming traffic and then 2 mins later were home.
After that reaction i am very very grateful that man showed us the route so we didn’t ride down the road with all the trucks coming past really close – not sure we’d have made it through. She was a really good girl and i cant begrudge her that one spook as it was tight, huge and noisy but perhaps next time will be a bit more wary about traffic. Im very grateful today for all the work we have put in - its really paid off by saving my bacon.
) to being scared afterwards!!!! Things could have soooo easily NOT have gone our way. i am very grateful to the guy who steered us up the right path and I am going to make a sign and laminate it and pin it to the fence.Just been out for a 5 mile ride – came back down a marked bridleway despite being told it was really busy – thought we would be brave and go and have a look so we found it eventually. We got to the eco compost place and started riding down (it would have been a really long way back by now) but am worrying about the amount of traffic when some guy comes out waving to us. We go back and talk to him and it turns out that the bridle path doesn’t run down the road but there is a track to one side. Well i think he may have saved Rosie and I from a serious injury or worse! The road is split so there are two paths, both one way, so you come up one road and down the other with no passing paces and it was really busy – bin trucks, vehicle carriers and all sorts bombing up and down - we were so glad to be on the path away from them all. We get to the bottom, go through the sports club and come out just the wrong side of the mini roundabout near the airport – walks down the pavement – fine. Rosie is a bit ansty at the traffic but one guy stops to let us go – only for someone else to overtake him! I did swear at him quite loudly!!! Anyway – get to a small section where theres just normal pavement and a ditch to the side. Just as we are going past this bit (which is only 50 metres) bin truck comes along – slows down but not much and just as he is besides us Rosie spooks!!! I very nearly pooed my pants! The truck was close enough for me to touch, theres a ditch the other side and she’s freaking!!!!!
I am so so so grateful that we have that one rein stop and that i have used it enough times to not have to think about it. I pulled her up tight as there is absolutely nowhere for us to go - lorry one side, ditch the other and my friend on her horse in front. In fact I don’t know how she didn’t scrape her butt on the lorry but the lorry keeps going and we walk on! Phew! That could have been really nasty.
She is a bit on her toes at larger bits of traffic but we keep going steadily, as the path got wider and we stayed facing the oncoming traffic and then 2 mins later were home.
After that reaction i am very very grateful that man showed us the route so we didn’t ride down the road with all the trucks coming past really close – not sure we’d have made it through
. She was a really good girl and i cant begrudge her that one spook as it was tight, huge and noisy but perhaps next time will be a bit more wary about traffic. Im very grateful today for all the work we have put in - its really paid off by saving my bacon.
