I have been so neglectful!

Its been a LOOOOOONG time since I've posted anything! I feel like such a slacker. It might be because on the fitness and riding front, not much has changed. Personally though, I've taken some fun adventures. Last month took a long awaited vacation to Argentina where husband and I spent two glorious weeks eating and drinking, and taking in the sights of Buenos Aires and Mendoza. Spent much time napping, eating alfajores, and drinking cafe con leche at 5 in the evening since in Argentina time, thats really like 2 in the afternoon since nothing gets started until late. Great, great time but I really missed all my animals! Next up in Hawaii at the end of August for my 30th birthday. That will officially mark off the "pre kids" vacation plans on the bucket list.

Riding wise, still working on trying to ride Arwen well, and do it consistently. Consistency is really what I'm struggling with at this point. We have some really awesome fantastic days and rides, some not so great, and some downright crummy. The past couple weeks I've been doing lessons with trainer's assistant, and we worked quite a bit on bending, and pace and getting to the jumps on a good rhythm. It helped quite a bit, but now I just need to stop being in my head so much and being concerned about all "the steps" to get there, and just ride and feel. I think towards the end I was holding Arwen a bit too much because she started rushing a little. That is always a sign that I have too much hand (i.e. not giving through my elbows and upper back) because she won't rush when we have enough pace and/or she doesn't feel like I'm holding her face to the fence. UGH.

Fitness wise, took about 2.5 weeks off so I'm just starting to get back into the swing of things. This week is my second set of skills tests, to see where I have improved from 6 months ago. Should be interesting. I know I have made definite progress in pull ups (no more bands!) and double unders, but I haven't done much in the way of weight lifting and my back is still messed up so I doubt I'll see improvements there.

Either way, will do a more detailed and specific post later.