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Is it possible it's the cages?  I know several riders (including me) who 
find they cause outside ankle pain.  I can't use them...Before you ditch 
your new Ariats, try them with your old stirrups...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GarnerT" <GarnerT@xxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 9:31 AM
Subject: [RC] riding shoes


> I thought I had solved my riding shoe problems when I purchased my Ariat
> Terrains, but I am having real problems with the side of my right foot.
> Last week on my normal training ride, the outside of my right foot was
> hurting so badly, that I had to keep walking & taking my foot out of the
> stirrup.  I have purchased some new stirrups with the safety cage, so I 
> can
> use tennies.
>
> I bought them & took them to a week long environmental camp with my 6th
> graders to break them in.  It was pouring rain & my feet didn't get wet
> (it's true - they ARE waterproof), but I got a huge blister on my left 
> heel
> after only about 1 1/2 mile hike.  I switched to my older hiking boots &
> thought that given time, the left boot would break in - wrong.
>
> At $80, I can't afford to be experimenting with this boot & that boot.
> Until you ride in them, you don't know how they're going to feel.  I have 
> a
> size 7, fairly wide foot, but I think the Ariats are just a tad too wide, 
> so
> my foot slides over to the edge of the boot & all the pressure of my leg 
> is
> on that edge.   The left boot has finally quit causing blisters, but now 
> I'm
> dealing with the right.  They have barely been worn, but I'm going to quit
> using them.
>
> Kathy Garner
>
>
>
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