Endurance Ride Stories

Tevis Cup No Hands Bridge

Ride Report: Tevis 2024, Part 3

The first hints of dusk had begun to gather as Atlas and I slipped away from the noise and bustle, back into the silent wilderness. The world seemed somehow bigger now, more hollow and lonesome and mysterious. We’d come so far, seen so much, and yet this still felt like a kind of beginning, this solitary trot into the night.

Tevis Michigan Bluff

Ride Report: Tevis Cup 2024, Part 2

It was in that stretch I suffered most. The descent at Eldorado was endless, the heat deeply oppressive. I later heard that it topped 110 degrees. I remember putting one foot in front of the other, telling Atlas to hang on, we must be nearly there.

Ride Report Tevis Cup Cougar Rock The Sweaty Equestrian

Ride Report: Tevis Cup 2024

Tevis. It was everything I expected. It was nothing like I expected. It was more and different than I expected. Experiencing Tevis firsthand replaced the coloring book rendering in my head with a high-resolution photograph. It changed campfire tales into a Hollywood movie. Transformed shadowy images into living beings. Reimagined me. Here is my story. …

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Ride Report: 2024 Mary & Anna Memorial 100

In preparation for Tevis, Atlas and I took on the 100-miler at Mary & Anna Memorial 2024. His performance? Stellar! Except for that one thing…