Hit and Miss

So, recap of the show!
It was really nice waking up at 5:30 when my body decided too instead of my alarm yelling at me. It was also really nice having a lot of time to get my horse white again. (cause one bath is not enough apparently).
They were calling for 30, feels like 40 weather so in my mind I was prepping for a crappy hot day. Thankfully the morning was cloudy and not too bad at all. It stayed cloudy for most of the morning which included warn up and test 1.
This show was a little different because there wasn't space to ride outside if the ring, but we could do a little warm up inside of it. Part of me thought: this should be good for helping me ride like I normally do. We are in the ring and riding normally, yes!
Bell gets rung, we duck out to reenter the ring. And then suddenly the beautiful supple and even paced horse is gone. Perfect confirmation that yes, it IS me doing who knows what in the ring.
Oh well, at least it was seriously funny.
My scores were much better than I thought (60,61 won't! We had a shadow judge) and we came in 6th, but no ribbon sadly.
But that's ok, I will ride better and improve and get me a ribbon! (yes I'm highly competitive).
Test 2, started out being a little wishy washy with a crooked halt (ny bad), and belle resisting a bit, but I was like: no, just ride and get to it. Then boom! I think belle was relieved that I'd actually remembered to ride and breathe during the test. She was round, supple, and we were accurate (not perfect) in our leg yields and my pony had some awesome lengthens.
I came out feeling great and relieved. Ha! Take that nerves I beat ya and rode through it!
Then got a 58 and came in 9th.

Can't please everyone.

Goal for the next show: ride my tests in sitting trot!