My name is Hannah Maskell and I am 9 years old. I've had my new Forest pony, Maisy, for two years and we love to do endurance.

We went to the national launch of Pony Club Endurance in Milton Keynes city centre. The PC series is sponsored by Carr & Day & Martin. The launch was right next to the Snow Dome! We had a lovely day riding though lots of parks, even under a roller coaster and past the concrete cows which most of the horses and ponies spooked at! One poor lady nearly ended up in the river ... hehe!

I rode with my friend Kathryn and Jane, as my Mum was ride organiser this time. We managed a speed of 9.86km per hour, which is a little slower than we’d hoped for. We need to do our class at 10km per hour. Maisy's heart rate of 40, which is spot on which meant even with a slow pace we qualified for the championships.

Our next bit of endurance is a training rally these Easter holidays, where we will learn how to cool our ponies off properly after an endurance ride. This is important as it helps to get the heart rate back to the resting speed for the vetting. The lower your heart rate and faster your pace the better.

I’m aiming to ride next either at the Vale of Belvoir or at Windsor, both of which will be 34km rides to practice for the PC Finals which will be 33kms. We plan to camp at both which I great fun with everyone there with their ponies. Just like a short Pony Club camp!

I really hope that more people will start doing endurance riding as it is such good fun and I've proved you don’t need a specialist pony nor expensive tack do it.

Hannah got interviewed for local TV!

H+P wants to know where the scrummy looking 80th anniversary PC cakes came from!

Photos thanks to Kit Houghton/The Pony Club