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Don't be so quick to be discouraged. You could still use them for all your 
conditioning rides and only use the Easy Boots for race day. That is still a 
great convenience.  And just because they put a disclaimer on the Boa Boot 
not being made for endurance, doesn't mean that you will definitely have 
problems. He said they were tested at 40 miles for 8 hours without problems 
(so what would another 10 miles hurt?). I have always just used boots for 
conditioning rides and been too paranoid to use boots on race day (I have 
had no luck keeping Easy Boots on, and refuse to bother with cutting, 
wrapping, foaming and taping). However, because I want to move up to 
multidays and 100s, I experimented on my last two 50s by putting on the Old 
Macs (which I use for conditioning rides) at the lunch break.  It worked 
fine.
So if you are doing multidays, you might be able to use Boa Boots one day, 
and alternate with Easy Boots or Old Macs the next day, etc., etc.

Terry
"May the Horse be with you"

> From: Nell Lindquist <frazer1017@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [RC]   Boa Boots - website
> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 06:35:21 -0800 (PST)
>
> According to the pdf brochure available from the website, the Boa boots
> are not recommended for endurance rides. These are the same folks who make
> Easy Boots and they recommend those for endurance instead. Rats, and I was
> hoping to be able to take the "easy" way out with the Boa lacing system!
> ---NELL
> ---------------------------------------------------
> From: "Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject:
>
> Could Boa boots be used for endurance rides or would they rub the skin of
> the pasterns?  They appear to come up fairly high.
>
> Barbara
>
>
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