Re: riding position a different problem

["Sarah McIntosh" <smcintos@rapidnet.net>]

Hi Lif:

 

Thanks for your input, but this brings up more questions.

 

A riding instructor told me not to have more than 10% of your weight in your seat.  Let's say 4 oz is less than 1% of your weight on your stirrups, this leaves 89% of your weight where??????

 

Does anybody know the correct weight distribution???

 

This will be helpful, so I'm hoping someone knows.

----- Original Message -----

From: Lif Strand

To: ridecamp@endurance.net

Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 3:28 PM

Subject: RC: Re: riding position a different problem

At 03:37 PM 7/5/00 -0700, Sarah McIntosh wrote:

I just did my first 50 miler and after about 35 miles, my feet were starting to hurt excruciatinly across the ball of the foot area. 

A riding instructor told me if I had more than 4 oz of weight in your stirrup, it's too much.  You can add padding to the stirrup all you want, but if you've got too much weight in the stirrup you'll continue to have problems.  Kind of like trying to make a poor fitting saddle work by just adding more and more pads. 

Try this:  Set a scale in front of a chair, then with your eyes closed, put your foot on it with what feels like the same amount of pressure you use to ride.  Then see what the scale says.  4 oz. isn't much - I found when I changed to using that little pressure, my whole riding position changed for the better.  Lif