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Re: [RC] RE:electrolytes - Carol StilesWell, I guess that's not as bad as what we saw at a ride one time. A vet was doing an anal check on a horse and when he was done, he went right back to eating his Doritos without washing his hands first. Carol ----- Original Message ----- From: <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <cstiles@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 10:10 AM Subject: Re: [RC] RE:electrolytes Heidi, how did you taste the sweat? Did you lick your horse? I can't imagine licking my horse, for one thing I'd get a hairball for sure because he is so hairy. Unless you licked where there is no hair...which I can only think of a couple of places where there isn't any hair and I certainly wouldn't want to lick those places either...: ) Just having fun,LOL! Well, actually, it's more like the "white glove test" but without the glove... <g> I just run a finger over the sweat and then taste the finger... :-) If one pretty much does it under the same conditions all the time (clean horse so there is no buildup, and early in the ride so there is no buildup), one can compare from week to week, month to month. Starting green horses it tastes salty as all get-out. With my horses, at least (admittedly ones that have not needed e-lytes, even in some pretty good competition in hot weather), the sweat gets to where you just about can't taste any salt in it at all. (And no, I don't eat salty stuff myself, so I don't think I have a salty sampling finger... <G>) Heidi ============================================================ One would think that logic would prevail. But then, if logic did prevail, men would ride sidesaddle. ~ Bob Morris ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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