b'Running the RaceKeep SwingingDont Quit On A MissBy Betsy Nunnhowfastdouwannab@gmail.com, facebook.com/Willnunnp3, youtube.com/user/howfastdouwannabD ont quit on a miss ison. Go turn some bushes in the desert for the next something a lot of usfew days. heard when were kids roping the dummy. My dadWhen you have been entering and hitting barrels or would stand on the oppositenot winning anything do you then turn out and stay end of the bale and rope while I would mirror himhome? Well, there are a couple of questions you need from the other end. Usually, at the end of the day onto ask yourself. Are there these little bitty mistakes into the night, we would rope it. The thought processthat I keep making that I could clean up at a great rate is to not quit if you miss. You should quit with a goodof speed or do I need to go home to the practice pen? loop but what if your arm is tired? My dad would sayMost of the time when you are at that level you need is your arm tired maybe you should quit? Most timesto keep entering. You dont need to go home and drill I didnt want to quit on a miss though. So that bringsthem. You need to get your head on straight, see your me to the question. What about running barrels?run in your mind, and go make it happen. If you are What about working horses when they mess up? Orriding a Jim Dandy you may need to tweak a couple what about when you have a ton of fees put up andof things and then they will pay you.you dont win a dime? Or what if its a different seasonI had a really nice mare that Cathy Ruiz trained atNever Give Up.in your life? Do you quit then?When you are working a horse do you drill and drillone point that ended me up in the Top 20 in theGreat Things Take Time.WPRA standings in 1998. I had done well on her in them until they get it correct? I dont think so. You97 after we bought her and she had slipped at Yucca can take the fun out of it for them and you can makeValley, California, and broke her pelvis. I laid herWimberley that year and watched her win Calgary. them sore. Back off and let them think about it. Gooff quite a while and then brought her back. I wasI wouldnt have gotten to meet and stay with all the do something else on them. Mix it up. Set the polesgoing to some jackpots and rodeos near the housegreat folks that put us up. We had a blast. I had a blast up the next day. Give them something else to focusbut catching barrels leaving them which dang surewith three head of gunners in my trailer. It was truly doesnt win anything. I had a friend (Carrieone of the best times in my life even if I fell short for Woolsey) who called to see if I wanted to gothe second time and didnt make it. I had so many to the winter rodeos together. My mom saidgreat people that sponsored me and helped me. I I think you need to stay home and figuream forever grateful to all of them. My folks Jeff and it out. I said no I think I need to go get inBonnie Lemaire, Mark Favour, Bud, and Sue Maule the middle of them and thats what I did.were in my corner the whole time! I am stillIt still took me a bit to get my groove on asso thankful to this day. I was hitting some barrels to win a bunch. The thing is I could have just headed to theShoot, I know of a top team roper that was here just a house but I didnt.while back. He entered up for a week or two and didnt win a nickel. He loaded up and headed to another state I had a really good family friend by theand won 22k. Now if he would have sulled up and name of Mark Favour that helped my folksheaded home he wouldnt have won diddly squat. and I buy that mare, Sugar Candy Center as she was the one Cathy trained. He wouldSometimes you just have to be patient and know that often call to check in on how I was doingyour time is coming. Everyone gets a turn and its just and always said, Just keep swinging! Thatnot your turn yet. If you quit you wont get that turn! is what I did; I kept swinging until the CowWhat about if you need to sell a bunch of your herd Palace which was the last rodeo of theto pay some bills and work on your place? What if year. I only missed the NFR that year byyou have a kid that you need to haul to the rodeos for a couple of thousand. I had been on a hota while? You may need to step back a bit and watch streak until my horse broke a splint bonethe yearling you have grown up the next year so you at Billings. I didnt realize she had brokencan start him and try your hand in the futurities again it until the season was over but we startedbut you cant quit.You can go to work on your own making some mistakes due to that. Wouldfitness and your kids skills while you are learning to we have made the NFR that year had thatbe patient. Just know it may not be your turn right not happened? Maybe but I dont knownow. That doesnt mean your turn isnt coming soon. that for sure.Pray for the will of God in your life! Look outside yourself! Work on the things you can. Control the My point is if I had gone to the housethings you can. God is for you He is not against you! I wouldnt have had that awesome experience with my mare. I wouldntWhether in life or rodeo we get tired and want to quit have traveled with my friend Cheyennebut keep swinging for the fences. Keep swinging!!!! 38 January 2021'