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Re: [RC] Sore back while training - rides2farI've been training now several months now and trotting several miles at a time now . No problem for my horse but not for me. I'm killing my lower back. Its sore for 3 days after a ride. How do you guys do it? I'm used to riding with my stirrups down and my legs stretched out. Easier on my knees. May be I need to raise my stirrups so I can keep my butt off the saddle. Ideas Please. If you've been riding your Walker's running walk in the usual style with your feet out front, slightly leaning back, then you try to go from that to leaning your body over your feet at a trot I would think it would be a real bear. If you're going to trot in the ride I'd shoot for a stirrup that put my feet under me so that if the horse disappeared you wouldn't fall down. At a trot you just natually have to get up over your feet so you're bending at the waist to do it. I had a jumping saddle when I first started endurance and my back was pretty much in permanent pain till I got my OF Express. I lean forward very little, more vertical like the dressage people than forward like hunt seat. I too have bad knees but once your horse hits that trot and holds it I don't have any pain even posting 100 (plenty of pain when I jump down though >g<). The thing that hurts mine is to slowly lower myself down with tension on them (like if I'm going from a trot back to a walk) Since I'm not lowering myself with tension during the down faze of the posting motion it's not a problem. I have more pain on training rides but my knees do great in competition when we hold our pace. No back pain with my feet under me. Better to fix the mechanical problem than listen to the people who brag about how many Advil it takes to get them through a ride. Angie ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! ============================================================ At the end of the day maybe the definition of endurance isn't the length of the ride but rather the spirit in which it is ridden. ~ Maryanne Stroud Gabani ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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