Qualified

Well what can I say! We only went and won the 70cm Senior team class today. We’re off to the Arena Eventing Champs at Aston Le Walls next year!

It’s our first BRC qualifier for a while as last year we didn’t get to do any. I went to a lot, but as Buddy was off games… It was Bert’s first qualifier too.

Both my boys were rather confused at the early start. Bert was bleary-eyed when I gave him his breakfast at 5:20am. I have to admit, I was a bit the same. I know we got an extra hour and all that. But why is it when you know you need to get up early, your brain decides that you don’t actually need sleep.

Did you actually set the alarm?! Checks for the 10th time. What if your phone doesn’t automatically change the time. Checks settings. So I was feeling rather tired too.

Buddy was surprised to see me. Even more surprised when we headed towards the lorry. I had rigged up a manger, so he could have meals on wheels. He approved, well till he managed to knock it off.

6am we left the yard. 7:45am I was walking the course. 8:45am we were all done. Bonkers huh?!

It wasn’t our best round. I’m annoyed at myself as we’ve been going so well recently. Buddy stormed round the SJ part of the course. All was going well till we got to an offset double of black pipes. I lost his left shoulder and we sailed past. Regrouped and turned to represent. After that he barely looked at anything.

We had the joker down but I was so happy to put a score on the board. I’m not sure any of us thought we’d win.

I know we can do better. And we have a few months to crack it before the Champs in May. What is it they say, you’re either winning or learning. Today we did both.

We will all sleep well tonight. Early night for me. Bert is already snoring.