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Re: [RC] questions! - heidiI've slowly moved since starting in 1996 <EEEKKK - has it been that long since I did my first ride????> from Low Rent as Angie calls it :) to a LQ trailer. I can tell you after sleeping in a tent, then in my truck, then in the back of a trailer, then in a gneck trailer w/no LQ, and now in the new-to-me LQ one, you don't sleep any better the night before in nicer digs - you're just more comfortable while you're lying there obsessing :) esp if it's raining to beat the band like it did this weekend at LBL :-p Oh, I dunno.... The bed in my homemade-by-somebody-else LQ gooseneck is more comfortable than my bed at home, and I'm usually exhausted when I get to rides from all the effort of getting everything set up at home so that someone else can do chores for the weekend, so I usually sleep like a log! I can remember having butterflies and staying awake when I was young, but I'm just a tired old lady now and enjoy the peace and quiet of not being somewhere where the phone rings, etc. For the horse, I've tied to the trailer, used a pen and picketed. Right now I prefer picketing. You'll have to decide what you like best for you and your horse. Guess I'm old-fashioned--I still like tying to the trailer, although we finally made the concession of a really SOLID panel pen (with "real" 12' panels, not the usual portable sort) for a horse that isn't too reliable to tie. I've tried oatmeal, hardboiled eggs, yogurt, etc..it's hard to get much down except my coffee so I've given up the fight :) a cup or two of good coffee with half'n half (or better yet, whipping cream <g>) and I'm good to go till a bit later on the trail. I'm not usually hungry in the mornings (I'm not at home, either) but if I don't eat, I really regret it. So now it's oatmeal. And I gotta have my milk! If I drank coffee, I'd be off to pee every five minutes for the first loop and more dehydrated than I get anyway--I avoid the caffeine. I've tried several of the bars (can anyone actually stand Power Bars????bleck!!!) Cliff and Luna bars are in the edible category. If you want to put a small cooler at the check then hard boiled eggs and/or tuna salad. Chocolate pudding is good too :) I tend to do potato salad (my own bland homemade recipe, not just any old potato salad) or tuna sandwiches or cold chicken at checks (and my milk!) and I've never found any "fancy" bars that do me as well as plain old Quaker granola bars or the Nature's Valley ones. And yes, pudding, pudding, pudding! And grapes. And nectarines. I used Ensure this weekend and really liked it - took care of that "I really need to eat...soon..." feeling (and the associated crabbiness others tell me I get :)) Not sure I could drink it at room temp (or worse yet, warm) though :-p Beef jerky is good - gives you some protein and salt (and pleny of preservatives too <g>) Nuts/raisins are a good snack too - easy to carry, filling, and fairly durable. I can't do much salt--makes me sick--although I can handle somewhat-salted nuts. But dried fruit makes my mouth all gummy and dry. Milk seems to do for me what Ensure does for other folks. Don't forget water, water, water to drink. Lotsa water will help with those after-ride sore muscles :) Yep! Although I have problems with dry mouth and so alternate water and hard candies. That seems to do the trick. Heidi ============================================================ It is how we "feel" deep inside that matters, cause each of us knows the truth, regardless of how we try make it complicated. It just isn't. ~ Frank Solano ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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