Re: Re: water weight

["Michelle Rowe" <michrowe@frontier.net>]

Ok.  Don't flame me for my math skills (or lack there of).  I do not claim
to be a college graduate, and hereby disclaim any accuracy of the number
presented below. ;-)

I had to use glucose, because I could not find the chemical formula for
glycogen in my zoology text, and I used this web site to convert glucose
mmol's to grams.

http://www.sci.ouc.bc.ca/chem/programmes/mm-find2.htm
H12C6O6 = glucose = 0.18 g per mmol

at 60 mmol per hour per kg
a 1000 lb horse is ~454 kg
454*60 is 27272 mmol. per hour of glycogen used
1 mmol glucose (H12C6O6) = 0.18 g
27272 mmol = 4909 g = 4.9 kg = 10.7 lbs. of glycogen used

So 10.7 lbs glycogen for a 1000 lb horse per hour.  How does that sound??

m
(aka michelle rowe)
colorado
http://www.redwrench.com

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Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 2:30 PM
Subject: RC: Re: water weight


> In a message dated 12/22/99 1:07:12 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> michrowe@frontier.net writes:
>
> << Is this what you are looking for?  You'll have to do the math...
>
>
http://63.80.222.118/library/archive/proceedings/sc93/ChokePoints/index.html
>
>  "During endurance exercise (7.5 to 11.5 miles per hour), horses will
>  typically use muscle glycogen at a rate from 0.5 to 1.5 mmol/kg/min. The
>  remainder of the energy generated at this rate speed comes from fat
>  oxidation. "
>
>  Reference:
>  Choke Points: What Factors Limit Performance in the Equine Athlete >>
>
>
> That's it. Thanks. Sarah, what does it amout to in pounds per hour in a
900
> lb horse?
>
> ti
>
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