October 2021 Issue

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Please call (717) 509-9800 for advertising rates or visit www.pennsylvaniaequestrian.com. We cannot accept copyrighted photos without permission from owner. You must have permission before reprinting anything from East Coast Equestrian. For permission please call (717) 509-9800 or email steph@eastcoastequestrian.net FARMS HORSES MISC. point, and I was on several horses that bolted. They seemed to have inner radar that kept them moving in the right direction.” Food was another issue, and Jellison says that virtually every- thing was mutton-based—from soups to stews to other fare she couldn’t really identify. “I decided early on that I was not going to eat. It’s better for your body not to eat than to introduce something that would make you ill.” She said that there were occasionally noo- dles, which she did eat, and some sort of hard bread that she chewed on while riding. She made sure she stayed hydrated, though. She said that there was a cur- few, and all riders had to stop riding. Since each rider also had a satellite tracker, the race organizers knew where everyone was. If they were not near the yurts (the tents where the riders could stay for the night), they just camped on the steppes. “One time I stayed with a nice Mon- golian family,” she says. She had started to feel a little squeamish and went outside. “I honored them by throwing up outside their yurt. They were very concerned about me.” The camaraderie among the riders was great, she says, even though they were technically all competing against each other. There were several other riders Jellison’s age and she says they bonded during the training period in what they referred to as the “nerd yurt,” in contrast to the party yurts where the younger riders stayed. “I was surrounded by riders that were much better than I was,” she says. “I had good luck and I think my training program was a good one.” Her good luck ran out before she was able to finish the race, though. “I was very close to comple- tion,” she says. “I did about 80 per cent of it.” She says she was the oldest woman in the field, and the organizers were very con- cerned about her. “Every day they would go find me and ask me how I was doing, take my blood pres- sure and my vitals.” She says that on one of the checks, they found that her blood pressure had gone up and they were concerned that it was too high. Out of an abundance of caution, they pulled her out of the race. “Now I feel like I’ve got unfinished business out there.” The Day That Changed Everything Jellison was working inMan- hattan on 9/11. “I was one of those people who watched the towers fall,” she said. She began to cry as she re- called the day and all that she saw. It haunts her still. “There are no words to describe what happened that day. I was one of the lucky ones.After that, I realized I had put off a lot of things in my life that I wanted to do, and I better stop making excuses and start doing what I wanted to do.” She started riding again, and, as she describes herself, “I had a tendency to be a really aggressive trail rider.” She says she would go out for four-hour trail rides. “I ran into some people who were involved in foxhunting.” She says (Continued from page 24) TRAINING: Westfield Farm LLC, Tailored for horse and owner. ALL Breeds and disciplines. We will make your trail horse safe or a winning show horse. 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