Ridecamp: [RC] electrolyte recipe

But then again I'm not anywhere near competitive 
> enough to  try it at the trot!  :-)
> 

Is "competitive" another word for brain damaged?  I was at Big South Fork
a couple of years ago and traveling at a nice steady trot in a pretty
tight string of horses and thought I'd try loading dry electrolytes while
going down the trail. I was about third in line and they were all
traveling nice and steady so I stuffed my sponge under the front of my
saddle, took the canister of dry electrolytes out of my zippered pocket.
Sort of dropped the reins while I held the syringe in one hand (plugging
the bottom with a finger since I'd lost the cap) and the plunger &
electrolytes in the other. Then I took out a waterbottle to pour water
down into the top of the syringe.  About that time the Yahoo who was 2nd
in line (who I had never seen before ...no helmet, long hair blowing in
the breeze, and a big western show saddle on her Arab) decided to pass
the leader and take off downhill at a gallop.  Kaboot bolted after
her...my finger came off the bottom of the syringe as I grabbed for the
reins. The dry electrolyes drained out like sand through an hour glass
all over my horse...while I tried to haul Kaboot down from a mad gallop
on a downhill with pieces of the syringe in both hands the sponge came
out from under the front of my saddle and was dragging by the wrist loop
and snapping at his heels.  I thought I did pretty well. I only dropped
the film canister and I lived.

That's the long version of. "I don't recommend mixing at a trot".

Angie

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