Tissy is pretty remarkable in many ways (I'm biased) but truly in the fact that you can leave her for weeks and then get on for a ride and she has absolutely no issue with this, she isn't fresh or spooky, she is just the same old Tissy. This trait makes giving her time off super easy. She has always had 3 months 'off' a year without any training her whole life. Usually from October to December at the end of a season. In her older years she's had more like 6 months off from October to March.
I still take her out for a little spin here and there but riding Tissy is meant to be fun for both of us. So in the winter, when it's dark and wet and I don't see them in daylight until the weekend, Tissy stays on holiday until we can go on light spring evening adventures, rather than slogging the winter in the school and getting muddy and sweaty. It means I don't need to clip her, it means she's not using extra calories training and because she's out 17hours a day in a hilly field she actually stays very mobile and reasonably well muscled. We still go on a weekend wander every now and then but it's usually a meandering hack around the block of about 5km.
Tissy is 26 this year and she's still pretty keen so once the lighter nights come we can start doing our walk work and get her fit enough to enjoy some 16-32km rides through the summer.
Thanks for watching,
Beth
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