Endurance Horse Podcast

Endurance Horse Podcast - Episode 8   Hello and Welcome to Endurance Horse Podcast! I’m Christina Hyke, an equine photographer in Southern Wisconsin!   Episode 8 of the Endurance Horse Podcast is being published the 7th of August 2018.   While I have been promising you an all Tevis episode, this one, is not quite it yet!  We are waiting another week or two to be sure we have gathered all the audios and then will create the podcast. The good news is that this will likely be TWO episodes all from Tevis riders and crew.  I promise, it is worth the wait!     Meanwhile- we WILL be starting out this episode with an audio file from Tevis rider, Erin Glassman.  Erin was kind enough to send audios about her journey to and prep for the Tevis.  The first audio you will hear on episode 8 will be from Erin, and one more on her journey will we near the end of the podcast.     I realize the audio said to stick around until the end & I would share some updates from my story as well. That did not happen- and wh

Episode 7   Hello from Wisconsin & Welcome to Endurance Horse Podcast! Episode 7 is being published on the 23rd of July 2018   I am your host, Christina Hyke- a Wisconsin based Equine photographer who also happens to love the trails and distance riding enough to create a podcast about it to share stories with other riders from around the world. Here, we gather to cheer each other on, share stories and to make connections with riders from around the world.  It is, in a sense, a virtual ride camp.   I once had a friend ask me, “What does this podcast give to me that facebook doesn’t?”  And my simplest answer was this, ‘Your hands, eyes and feet.”  You don’t need any of them to listen in to the podcast, all you need is your ears.    I’m happy to bring to you a special treat in Episode 7, really it is Jenny Chandler who has taken the time to create a special file with an icon of the Endurance world, Potato Richardson.  It is this file that spurred on an additional call for more audio files to create y

Hello & welcome to Endurance Horse Podcast!   This episode is the first topic specific episode of the Endurance Horse Podcast.  In this episode riders are sharing stories on the topic of what we call here  in the US, a Rider Option pull.  A Rider Option pull is when your horse has successfully gone through the vetting process, though you feel that for some reason, you should not go on.  In other countries this is called a ‘Withdrawl’.   At the end of the podcast I will share about two times when I decided to Rider Option, once on Faith in 2016 and once on Mandate for Gold in 2011.      Sometimes the stories we share on the podcast are fun and uplifting, so it did give me a bit of a pause to decide to tackle a not so uplifting aspect of Endurance riding, stories about the days when things did not go as planned.     We share the Rider Option stories in Episode 6 in hopes that we will give courage to someone who in the future who maybe faced with that feeling that something just isn’t right with

Endurance Horse Podcast Episode 5   Welcome to Episode 5 of Endurance Horse Podcast Hosted by Christina Hyke Sponsored by Christina Hyke Photography, LLC   Welcome to Episode 5!  Today is July 4th 2018.  In the United States it is a time for family and friends to get together, cook out and celebrate.  There will be parades, festivals and fireworks.  Today we are heading to a race to cheer on two of our older sons in the Whippet City Mile run that is right before the start of the 4th of July Parade, then out to the lake to enjoy a barbecue with my brother and family.  Though, since many of you maybe traveling this weekend, I thought it a good day to get episode 5 galloping out onto the airwaves.  So, here you go and I hope you enjoy the audios, I hope you find inspiration, laughter, joy, encouragement, empathy and most of all a feeling of all being a part of the same journey and the most I wish for you is that you enjoy the ride.    Thank you to everyone who made it possible for this episode to be pul

Endurance Horse Podcast Episode 4     Welcome to Episode 4 of Endurance Horse Podcast Hosted by Christina Hyke Sponsored by Christina Hyke Photography, LLC   In Episode 4 we are going to hear from fascinating riders from across the globe. We are going to hear Daryl Owen’s National Championships ride report from New Zealand.  Also from New Zealand,   Jenny Chandler’s first time sending in an audio file, another wonderful Marvel rider from down under, Kat & her musical ways (thanks to Kat, I had several songs stuck in my head for days).  We will also hear from the land of Billy the Kid, thanks to our wonderful south west rider, Keisha Wood, be sure to check out Keisha’s blog for more updates, stories and photographs on her journeys.    We will also hear from Tennessee Lane,  be sure to check out her SoCo Endurance page & links listed here.  Also, I had reached out to several ride managers to send in an audio telling us about their ride, and I heard back from a rider to tell us all about the gr

Endurance Horse Podcast Episode 3.0 I’m so glad you could join us!   In Episode 3 we are going to hear  some updates, meet some riders we have not heard from before including a Buckskin Mustang that found his way to Germany.  We have two ride managers in episode 3 as well as a few walks down memory lane.  We will also hear an update from one adorable, very young rider that I hope will continue to send in files throughout the season! And, I have a quick intro, special outro for you.  Spring has finally sprung in Wisconsin, so I’m so happy to feel free to start conditioning.  We seem to have a bumper crop of frogs & mosquitos already!  May the frogs win!     Email your audio stories to endurancehorsepodcast@gmail.com Ideally the files should be from two to 7 minutes in length.    Your host is Christina Hyke wife, mom, friend, equine photographer and life long horsewoman, ride far, ride well, ride often.   www.christinahyke.com   To learn more about the distance loving mini, Kricket You can find

Hello & welcome to Endurance Horse Podcast! I’m so glad you could join us.  How was your holiday weekend?  Ours was pretty laid  back, though I have to say, for some reason my husband, Jim, really spoiled me starting on Thursday.  He showed up with a beautiful bouquet of flowers,  made sure I had time to ride  that night and then on Friday morning he cooked me breakfast & sent me off with one of my favorite horses & a good friend for a nice, long, trail ride.   And to top it off by the time I got back from my ride there was a homemade pot of artichoke soup simmering on the stove.     In case you are wondering, I had a great trail ride with my little sorrel mare, Grace.  Grace had not been on the trails in sometime, though she was amazing and happy to be out there.  Grace is happy to leave the other horses and find her own journey, even if it was just going off to search for Tara’s lost glove, which, by the way,  I don’t think has been found yet.     There are several man made obstacles on

Endurance Horse Podcast -Episode 1     Welcome to Episode 1 of Endurance Horse Podcast   In this first episode we are going to hear from some fascinating People from around the world.  From Jen with her beautiful paint horse and her fabulous mini to all the way across the pond to Daryl who is headed to the National Championships, and she promises to send an update, so look for that in a future episode.   Not bad for our first time, we have 8 breeds of horses represented, 16 riders and 4 countries.  That is pretty good for a first episode, am I right?   Here is some additional good content from these wonderful endurance riders that submitted to this first episode:   Jen & Kricket Bella Fricker Endurance Brittney & Fizz on Instagram as #littlefizzy  Darice Whyte- Twisted Horse Tales Midwest Distance Driving Association American Standardbred Adoption Program   And if you would like to check out my photography page: www.christinahyke.com    Thank you for listening to our very first e

I am in the process of setting up the podcast and this is litterally the recording from the moment I had the idea.  No, there is no intro yet, no magical music intro yet, just me an a horse.  I wanted to publish just this short intro, and say hello & this is what we are hoping for, to hear from riders across the globe!  To listen to your story and share our own.  Now, I simply need some wonderful volunteers to send in a recording! Thank you to Jen for being the first one to send in her audio! Now can I persuade 10 more of you? It can be from anywhere, at the barn or from the couch! What do we want to hear? Introduce yourself, where you are from, tell us a bit about your horse(s) and your goals for the year. Maybe even give a tip on what to pack in your trailer for a long weekend away from home! What I really want to get to is who you are, what the riding is like, maybe your favorite trail and lots about your horse & what you love about him or her. I'd love to hear what you are working on this season a