Re: Re: water weight

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

So the new weight would be 9.7 lbs per hour for a 1000 lb horse using
Sarah's info on glycogen (basically glucose minus 1 water molecule).  Tom,
how does 4 oz. of carbo loader every 2 hours help a horse that's burning
about 20 lbs of glycogen between doses of carb loader?  Don't take that as a
flame, I want to understand.  Are you trying to get the horse's body to use
that loader for fuel or is the loader doing something else?  Is the loader
pre-empting fat burning?

m (trying to stay in neutral territory)
(aka michelle rowe)
colorado
http://www.redwrench.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Ralston" <ralston@AESOP.RUTGERS.EDU>
To: "Michelle Rowe" <michrowe@frontier.net>; <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: Re: water weight


> At 09:35 AM 12/23/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >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??
>
> Like an awful lot-Glycogen's formula is officially (C6-H10-O5)n-it is
> basically
> a bunch of glucoses linked together, so I'm not even sure what a "mole" of
> the stuff
> would consist of: Beth?
>
> Ti will be ecstatic. But I still maintain that normally endurance horses
do
> not run on pure glycogen and glucose as he would like to have us believe.
> Sarah
>
>


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