Mad Barn Supplements Worked For Us!
We used a custom Mad Barn product for 9 of the 13 months we rode from Canada to Guatemala.
We used a custom Mad Barn product for 9 of the 13 months we rode from Canada to Guatemala.
Zaragoza is known as the little Spain of Guatemala. The streets are laid out in grid formation like nearby Antigua. The Catholic Church is massive and beautiful.
In a nutshell, it was pretty awesome… More than anything, I learned what a truly extraordinary horse will do for you, and that extraordinary horses are the stuff of legends.
As Roxy healed up, I settled into town and life here.
I started walking Roxy… Then I started riding her. It took 6 weeks for the wound to completely heal, and 3 weeks for it to heal enough to ride. It’s luck and a blessing that nothing worse than this happened.
Roxy got tired in Oaxaca. We rode 672 kilometers in 30 days from the top to the bottom of that Mexican state. Many days were above 35c by noon, and hardly went below 30c at night. The feed was bad, the pavement hard, the miles long, the temperature hot.
Our first night in Guatemala was kind of sketchy. We were staying in a cheap hotel that had some grass in the yard. The next morning we left El Carmen and rode to Malacatan. This was Roxy’s first ride since getting the hoof inflammation 2 weeks earlier.
Roxy, a purebred registered MORGAN mare. NOT a mustang…A tough as nails, easy keeping, hard hooved, forward going horse from SHOW lines.
It’s been 275 days on the road, and we have covered 3300 miles, or 5280 kilometers. That’s 12 miles a day or 365 miles a month. 20 days of 30 each month riding, 10 days per month rest, which equals 18 miles per day ridden. Over the 9 months on the road, I’ve been riding 330 to 460 miles per month. The average is 365 miles or 584 km per month.
I started using the old Orthoflex Traditional at mile 970 of my trip. As I mentioned in a previous post about using memory foam as a saddle pad, I was getting some chafing in the rear loin area at about 700 miles into the new saddle.
This post is for the people who have no clue how I’m caring for Roxy. Those who assume I’m overusing her or abusing her. It’s also for the curious and interested.