“I really believe in setting a really high bar and very lofty goals, because that creates the high-level plan of action that I get to live every day. “A lot of people laugh at it, but my ultimate goal is to win a gold medal in the Olympics in the sport of eventing,” he said. He has three competition horses and moved his family to Pennsylvania so he can train full-time with Lillian Heard, who he met through Martin. Photo Courtesy Of Ty Burkeįast forward less than two years, and Burke is all in.
It’s been really fun watching his rate of improvement in a short period of time.” Ty Burke is all in on eventing after taking up the sport two years ago. He wanted to take on a new challenge in life, and it’s been really awesome watching someone that’s driven and passionate and obsessed with getting really good at the sport and can devote their life to it. “It was out of the blue, and right from the get-go I thought, this is one interesting character. “I’ll never forget the day Ty called me,” Martin said. “It was really awesome, and I knew this is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.” “We were going over some really exciting jump courses, and it was like I was in a Spartan Warrior training session,” Burke said. Martin selected one of his retired advanced horses for Burke to ride, and they had a lesson in dumping rain, sleet and snow. “I said, ‘Hey, my name is Ty Burke, and you don’t know me from Adam, but I wonder if I could share what my goals might be.’ We had a 45-minute chat.”īurke was living in Connecticut with his family at the time, and 10 days later Martin invited him to his Windurra USA in Cochranville, Pennsylvania, for a lesson.īurke had started to take some riding lessons with a local trainer a few weeks before he’d called Martin. “I did not think he was going to pick up at all, but he did,” Burke remembered. Amy Dragoo Photography Photoīurke Googled again, this time for “the best eventer in the United States.” Boyd Martin’s name popped up, so he watched some of Martin’s competition videos, checked out his website and called the Olympian. I was like, ‘OK, it’s horses.’ ”īurke had some childhood experience with horses, and he saw eventing as a chance to return to those roots and do “something that will engage my mind and body, and I’ll be able to seriously pursue for many years,” he said. Then I saw a YouTube video titled ‘Triathlon For The Insane.’ I do Ironman Triathlons to keep myself reasonably fit. “The Queen of England was in the news a lot, and it was like, wow, the Queen of England rides horses every day, and she’s 90. “At the time I was 40 years old,” he said. Army veteran, Burke had purchased an aerospace engineering company and built it up with his team until he felt comfortable stepping back from day-to-day operations.Īfter watching a lot of YouTube videos and doing some thinking, Burke came up with a short list of goals he could pursue at a high level in middle age. Nearly three years ago, Ty Burke was pondering his next steps in life.
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