Colder weather

Yesterday I rode in a much colder lesson. It's was dark for one. Luckily we have a lighted arena. I rode with a new girl to the farm. She's nice but other than that I don't know much about her other than that she rides at another barn with my cousin! Anyway.... I rode Red and she rode Jazz. Red was a butthole. He kept speeding up along the long sides of the ring. I kept using half halts and tried to slow down my posting but that wasn't working out so well. So I felt like I was riding HORRIBLY!!!! But Linnea said I was actually riding really well, it's just I kept getting stiff as it went on cause I was getting tired and nervous. Even more so when I got into jump position. She said I was pinching my back. She said we'd work on that. But after the lesson was over, I felt pretty bad. I had to get a hug from her before I left otherwise I probably would still be ready to kick myself for my riding yesterday. Linnea said It (My position) looked excellent , but it may not have felt that way. Oh well. I guess theres always next lesson. But Linnea might say it looked okay I just still don't feel like it was. But she said i've progressed so much in my past few years of riding, and in the past 6 weeks especially. She still remembers when she put me on Toby and I could barely get him to go. And now I'm riding horses that are wayy different from him. The horses i'm riding now are faster than him, and are more intermediate horses than they are beginner horses. Granted I should realize that I am a decent rider if Linnea has me in the advanced lessons but yeah. She said in my next lesson we can work on cantering and jumping since I was somewhat bored in this past lesson. (I get tired of only doing a posting trot and circles.) We only did that little bit cause Linnea didn't know how much Kimberly knew. Oh well i have to go....my backpack for school....disentigrated in the washing machine. :/ I guess I'm going to the store tomorrow.