Re: RC: Re: couple of nutritional questions(long)

[DreamWeaver <dreamweaver@gbis.com>]

At 02:00 PM 12/15/2000 -0700, Susan Garlinghouse wrote:
>  In
>either case, adding 5000 IU a day in gel caps is just fine, and sounds like
>a good idea to me.  I feed a little extra vit e to my guys, too, especially
>during the winter.

There is a link here:  www.endurance.net/2001xp/    that'll take you to the 
place where I found the least expensive Vitamin E caps.

>a good idea to me.  I feed a little extra vit e to my guys, too, especially
>during the winter.

:+) uhhh...yeah, I'm feeding a little extra to your guy too.

> > Other questions, unrelated; I'm going to start playing
> > with Carbo Charge, little by little. The idea of
> > playing with his blood sugar levels scares me a
> > little. But luckily I have a diabetic boyfriend who I
> > can steal a Glyco meter from, Hehehe. Ok, my question
> > is on how to mix the stuff, I'm thinking oil would be
> > a good (if maybe messy) idea, is there any reason this
> > wouldn't work?

I mix it with water and a little oil in a vitamixer.  Just curious, why do 
you want to try using carbo charge?

>  You might talk to Karen Chaton, she's
>done a lot with using CC during rides, I think she has some stuff on her
>website about it, but don't have the url handy.

Actually, I don't have too much up about using carbo charge.  I have a page 
up:  http://members.nbci.com/ridephotos/prideproject/weaver.html    That 
shows bloodwork from one horse on a ride, and electrolyte dosage, etc. I 
don't usually bother with using CC on just a one day ride, especially on 
Weaver.  Of course, there are always tons of variables and what works for 
one of my horses certainly doesn't work for the other one.  Same for doing 
the same ride from one year to the next -- I have to always be changing and 
adapting.

I never did get around to putting up any of the results from 
multidays.  Rocky was tested in the last year on 5 days, 4 days, 3 days, 
and 2 day rides (in the Pride Project).  I learned a lot, it was definitely 
worth the cost and the effort to do it (what effort, it was Rocky who had 
to be the pin cushion!).  :^)

I hate to give people advice on using CC.  Most people who try it don't 
have a clue what they are doing and then when they get into trouble, they 
have something to blame it on.  When in fact, their horses were already 
going on the edge, and then they think they can add a magic potion and go 
even faster/harder/longer.  Well, it doesn't work that way.  I've actually 
had people ask me about using CC on a limited distance ride.  Give me a 
break, don't any of these people read your articles in EN????!!!!!  (am I 
getting preachy ---sorry).

Now I usually tell people that want to try it, that they should do at least 
a 1,000 miles on their horse in competition first and get to know the 
horse.  And make sure everything is going right first.  You've got to know 
your horse, and what you are doing or you are going to get into 
trouble.  (whatever you do, don't follow the directions on the container, 
that's reeeeally a bad idea)

Karen