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There is an (OK, "my") article on shoes in the November Endurance News.

The article addresses shoes to ride and walk/run in, and Ariats were the
family favorite. (The raw data shows Ariats ahead even beyond the stats in
the article, which were mainly on Terrains.) All the Ariats are appropriate
for working around horses wrt toe protection.

Oddly enough, Ariat made shoes too narrow for a long time, then, unlike
Chevrolet apparently, graciously accommodated consumer pressure for wider
shoes.

I have a AAAA heel and one of my solutions is to use Thur-Lo socks, which
have extra padding in the heel. Can you try shoe inserts with arches like
Spencos or Sorbothane and experiment w/ sock thickness? Arched inserts tend
to take up width.

Now that we are hock deep in mud in No CA, I slog out to pasture in my
Wellies, groom in my gardening Birkenstock clogs w/ thick, hard plastic
toes, and change into Ariats to ride. (Another household hint: I keep my
low-cut  Ariat Taluses and half-chaps as slip-on unit. The stirrup of the
half-chaps stays on the shoe. HI-O Silver, Awaaayyyy)

Please let us know what ends up working for you.

Beverley


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