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- Organization: mbp Software&Systems GmbH at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany
- Date: Thursday, 21 Jan 1993 10:12:05 CET
- From: Dr. Lutz Massonne <LMASSONN@ESOC.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <93021.101205LMASSONN@ESOC.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
- Subject: My Bio
- Lines: 34
-
- I think its now my turn to join the Bio crowd ...
-
- I am Lutz Massonne, age 35, male, German.
- Currently I work at the European Space Operations Center at Darmstadt
- on the ground control of the European Space Agency's Earth observation
- satellites.
- I have studied Physics at Bochum and Heidelberg university and did my
- doctoral thesis on the physics of comet Halley's dust.
-
- I never was horse related in any way until I met my then and present partner
- in my 2nd year at university. She was riding already for years, and
- I started to watch her riding from the rider's pub :-) .
-
- When we moved to the Darmstadt region, she had stopped riding for some years
- due to workload and wanted to start up again.
- I for myself wanted to do some sportive activity also and decidied to give it
- a try. We looked at several stables in the region and settled for
- Pfungstadt as the horses and the instructor there made the best impression.
-
- At her first lesson Heike (my partner) was given the "nightmare horse" of
- the riding school, an old guy named Distrikt, who really played with her,
- having not been riding for years.
- I myself took up lunge lessons on the same old Distrikt, a horse
- noone had ever called " smooth to sit" ...
-
- Now, five years later, I am the proud owner of Distrikt (and I call him
- smooth to sit, at least after 45 minutes of warm-up).
- He is now 18 years old, a brown warmblood gelding, of Brandenburg
- or Mecklenburg breed. We are doing mainly dressage and trail riding.
-
- He still teaches me how to give the proper aids and seems to get
- younger each year. But this is supposed to be MY bio and not his ...
-
- Regards, Lutz
-