Hi from Hannah and Maisy!

It took an hour and a half to get to the PC Endurance Championships. We slept over in our tent at the competition.

On the evening before the ride started, me and my friends; Kathryn, Katie and Bryony all went on to the cross country course and played around the jumps. We then had a barbeque and we had cooked marshmallows!!! YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After all the marshmallows me and my friends all went onto the cross country again and we went for miles.

On our way back Kathryn thought that something was following us. When she said this Katie and I started to get pretty scared that something was following us! We didn't get back from our adventure until ten past ten! Everyone was waiting to go to bed.

The next morning I got up at half past seven in the morning. I had to have breakfast quite early so I was in time to get ready to vet at eight thirty, which meant I had one hour to get ready.

When I was ready to vet my escorts were already there. They both passed as did Gemma (my sister) and I. Finally, I set of for my three and a half hour ride.

Ready for the off!

The ride was fantastic and very fast. The weather was just right as it was sunny but not too hot. We went round an old airfield and we met Mum twice who sloshed our ponies down with water and gave me drinks and fruit cake to keep me going. It's very hard work to trot for all those kms!

When I finally got back from my ride I was in a rush to lower my pony's heart rate to be lower than sixty beats a second. We have to wash the ponies down and walk them round and round to lower their heart rates as quickly as possible. Your pony's recovery heart rate is taken into account when points are awarded to work out the winners. I went to the vets and passed with a heart rate of 42 - which is really good!

A while later Gemma came in on Kizzie and all the rush began again. When she came back from the vets she was very upset as Kizzie had failed the vetting. She was lame!

At the presentations I was 5th individually in the Novice Junior (under 13s) and my team was 1st. Gemma's team was 2nd in the Senior Open even though she was eliminated. There were 13 teams altogether from all over the country. Some had had a five and a half hour drive from Yorkshire to come! We are now planning our rides for next year's championships.

Hannah and Gemma with their awards.

Hannah and her rosettes