After booking to go and see Andy, I thought it might be best to book a quick refresher ride so on a friends advice a gave Easy View Riding Centre a call who arranged a gentle hour farm ride with them.
I arrived at the centre and met by a lovely lady who quickly had me in the saddle for an enjoyable but slightly painful hour farm ride with lots of walking and some rising trot.
I decided after spending the last six months in the gym it was time to start looking at training towards the swimming part of the test. To this end I have found an amazing coach at K2 Crawley called sally. I have joined the Monday night adult swimming sessions and committed to at least 6 sessions a week in the pool.
Sally is shortly going to provide me with a more structured plan of what to train and on what days from stamina work to technical and some speed session.
So far on day 4 of swimming I found it really hard but onwards and upwards.
So I decided because of my love for horses I would give the riding another go and posted on the London JISC trainees network to see if anyone could suggest a good place to start.
Had lots of helpful responses and decided to go with Liz Lamberts suggestion and head to see Andy Butcher, at AB Film horses, so I emailed Liz and arranged to go and see Andy on the 16th January.