Tetrathlowhat?

I have decided this summer I will try to get back into the tetrathlon world.

For those of you who dont have any idea as to what that might be-good ol wikipeda shall explain.


"Tetrathlon (from the numerical prefix "tetra-" meaning four) is a team competition organized by The Pony Club for its members. It is a variant of the modern pentathlon, without fencing. Thus it comprises the four disciplines of shooting, swimming, riding and running. Talk about multitalanted!

Teams typically consist of four members from one pony club branch competing against several teams from rival branches. Things can get qwite interesting. Competitions typically take place over two days during the summer months, with shooting and swimming on the first day and riding and running on the second. The competitions are run using volunteers on a non-profit making basis and are often hosted by patrons of the host branch, such as farmers or local land owners.

There are three age categories, known as minimus (8 - 11) junior (12 - 14) and senior (15 - 21). Boys and girls compete separately (i.e. in the same games, but not directly against each other). There is no minimum qualification standard to compete, but contests are only open to active pony club members (i.e. those who have attended at least three rallies that year (training days do not count as rallies)).

At the end of the games, awards (usually in the form of rosettes) are awarded for the top scores in each discipline, for the highest overall scores and for the best team performances in each of the age and sex categories.

The first time I tried to do one of these Rallys was very educational. I was on a scratch team(made up of random people)
The first competition that day was riding...Lets just say my horse did not want to jump that day. They next thing on the list was running. Lets just say I walked it(i was not in a public school at the time). The next day was swiming. Ha my entire life i had never had a swiming lesson. As a result i thought that freestyle ment however you wanted to swim... As a result everyone thought i was dieing as i swam a nice mix of swiming on my back to doggy paddle,and some breast stroke sprinkled in, and a couple of minutes wasted trying to figure out how to do that fansey backflip aginst the wall. Shooting was a bit diferent, before we did the real competition their was warm-up where i precided to shoot bulls eyes and do very well. only one problem, my poor arm was geting tired pumping that air pistol and by the time the competition began i was to tired to aim and was lucky to hit the paper at all.
But i was happy at the end of it all!

So in three weeks im going to try agin...