Feet, People diet for endurance

["Steven Proe" <trails@aaahawk.com>]

Hi Rae: This mat sound off beat but how tight are your shoes? Feet have a
tendency to expand/swell under constant and extreme conditions. A little
looser is much better than a little tight. Where your feet have contact with
your stirrup's may also cause problems. These suggestions may not be the
cause but again the feet have the ability to cause many remote problems
including headaches.
Steven
----- Original Message -----
From: <tallcarabs@juno.com>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 10:11 AM
Subject: RC: RE: Re: People diet for endurance


>   Ok, let's see if I can clarify my headaches a bit.   The pain is an
> intense throbbing in my forehead and behind my eyes.  I haven't thrown up
> yet, but the nausea does get quite bad.  My helmet fits good, snug, but
> not tight.  Blood pressure is pretty low - not bad low, but on the low
> end of the normal spectrum.  I do get pretty nervous and Scarlet does jig
> the first couple of miles.  She has come a long way at learning to
> control herself and it's not too hard to keep her at a decent pace in the
> beginning anymore.   The headaches are worse when it is hot.  What is
> interesting, is that I also do trail rides with a buch of arena/show
> people on weekends - sometimes 4-5 hours long in the hottest part of the
> day (SE TX, so we're talking high 90's to low 100's with hgh humidity),
> but I never get a headache after those rides.  The LD's that I do, I'm
> usually done by 11 or so, which is before the heat really gets bad.  So,
> I guess we're talking tension, nervousness a higher expenditure of energy
> (the other trail rides aren't very fast).  Does this help much?
>
> Rae
> Tall C Arabians - SE TX
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