And you have to be prepared for that. In order to unify, in other words, you have to risk being seen as someone who is dividing? In order to fix a problem, you have to address it.
But there are palate cleansers in there, too. But I am such a multilayered person. They just so happened to have brought me to this moment. That song was all of the frustration from that. When I tell you I was drinking days out of the year, I was drinking days out of the year.
I was literally just existing. Inside, I was dying. How are you? Are you going to accept me? Love me? Are you going to throw stones at me for telling that truth? Even in the last year, I have seen other country artists being honest.
The fact that TJ from Brothers Osborne came out that he was gay. I want to be a part of country music where people can be percent themselves and be accepted for it. I was still surviving at that point.
I had just had my baby, and then three weeks later, I was performing at the Grammys. It was truly such a special moment, having an all-Black choir and a Black cellist. We all stood up there and shined in our own right. That was a moment of hopefully putting the world on notice that things are changing, that country music will never be the same after that. This gave her great knowledge of training the body. How to rest and recover, how to be competitive and how to win. She won races at every level and distance she attempted including the marathon.
By her body started to wave a white flag. It became clear that she was not going to be able to achieve her goal to run an Olympic Marathon Trials qualifying time. Courtenay left professional racing, married an amazing man and found horses again.
She loves building the partnership with the horse that comes with time and devotion. Lucky for Courtenay a friend invited her to ride her horse. This time Courtenay did say yes. Wally, an upper level event horse was rehabbing from an injury. That lead Courtenay to start to research TB bloodlines for eventing, browsing websites for OTTB rehoming, reading everything she could about the sport and what it entailed, and looking for horses in need of exercising.
In Courtenay and her husband moved to to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, for his job. She was struck by lightning. She was miles away and in a different country. So of course she called her mom. So Courtenay took the risk and bought the injured horse she had never ridden, or even met, without a pre-purchase exam, right off the track. But she believed in his pedigree, conformation, and her gut.
Courtenay believed in herself, even though she had spent many years out of the saddle. She spent those years as a top athlete with skills that would transfer well to eventing. Thanks to bike racing she has quick reflexes, good balance, the ability to make fast tactical decisions, mental toughness, good body awareness, a powerful work ethic and a holistic approach to training.
For Courtenay the risk paid off. She has been fortunate to have access to wonderful coaching. Courtenay has progressed from Novice to Preliminary in three years.
Bam is turning out to be that horse that is willing to do whatever Courtenay asks of him. Whether it is getting on a trailer at 5 a. Courtenay asks and he is willing. Courtenay has had a few rookie mistakes. That fall took some time for Bam to recover physically and Courtenay emotionally.
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