A typical event training day is stuffed full of riding and coaching. Discover what the life of an eventing professional is like in this video presented by an internationally renowned clinician and event rider.
Hi, I'm Cathy Wieschoff, and I'm here to talk to you about eventing, and I wanted to kind of give you a short synopsis of my typical day. I am actually doing the P90X now, starting my different physical fitness program, 'cause I feel it's really important that riders are fit. And so, I get up and have my breakfast and take my child to school, and then I come down to the barn and I do have a groom that helps me ride my horses, and I am lying out the training schedule for today, for the day of all the horses that we have to work. And sometimes it's flat work, sometimes it's jumping, sometimes it's going out for a trot stat together. And then, after I'm through riding which is usually by, you know, noon, one o'clock, I, I do take a lunch break. Some, some professionals don't take a lunch break and I think that's very important that you pause in the middle of the day to eat lunch. And then, usually in the afternoon, I start teaching my lessons and I teach regularly three to four days a week in the afternoon and into the evening 'cause some of my professional students, some of my students who are professionals can't get to me 'till after five o'clock. And that pretty much wraps up my day. My groom will clean my tack and, and check on the horse's after they have been ridden and that's kind of the week days and the weekends are filled with, you know, competitions or teaching clinics and if I'm lucky, I get a Sunday afternoon where I can sit down and watch football. "Hahahahahah".
