Tingling Toes

The last several weeks, I've been dealing with calf cramping (I believe this was dehydration) and/or leg pain (I do stretch before I ride, which seems to help), and occasionally, my feet will fall asleep in the stirrups while flatting. It's especially bad on the right side.

PC: http://equestrianbitch.tumblr.com/post/61076861694

I've done a fair bit of research on it in the last week or so. I was trying to determine if I had injured my ankle or pinched a nerve or something, but I don't really think that is the case. 

In the last 2 weeks, the leg pain has been a little bit better, but it's still there. And it really bothers me! It makes me feel weak in the saddle. I try to push through but sometimes I just have to walk and take my feet out for a minute to stretch. 

Last night, I asked K if she thought it might be due to leg position. And she was like, honestly, I don't see a problem with your leg and when M (her trainer) was watching earlier, she would have mentioned it if she did. She suggested bringing my saddle next week to try on Riko. Even though my butt is too big for it now (ha, the joys of struggling to lose weight!), it still is a better fit than the one they have on him currently which I can barely get my butt out of to 2-point. She said if it's too big for him, we can always pad it. If it fits him, I may consider bartering a session of lessons and give it to them. 

One of the things I read in my research that I think is more plausible is that my hips could be out. And K did agree that I probably should try getting them adjusted, as well.

So, tomorrow, I'm going to ask my chiropractor to adjust my hips. She has not adjusted them since I've been seeing her (since January). I guess it's because she's been focused on treating my car accident injuries, but my previous chiro used to adjust them at least a little bit pretty much every time I saw her. 

Now that we're trying out a maintenance plan with a visit every 2 weeks, and no longer going through car insurance for treatment, I'm hoping she might be more willing to adjust other things that are bothering me. I'm willing to bet my left hip is out and that adjusting it will greatly alleviate these issues. 

Fingers crossed!

World Equestrian Games!

Since I found out that the 2018 WEG would be in NC *and* I was moving to NC, I've been counting down the days until event details were released. Once the details were released, I started counting down until tickets were on sale. See, my mom and I had really wanted to drive up to KY to go then and it just didn't work out for us. But this time, I said, we are going, no matter what, even if it's for 1 day and we have to drive there in the morning and back that evening.

She was visiting this weekend (she moves up in about 6 weeks!), and since tickets were going on sale today, I said, we should probably figure out what we really want to see so when the tickets go on sale, I can go ahead buy them. As I was looking at the schedule, I realized that NC residents could purchase tickets in the pre-sale (if I had known that, this post would have happened sooner, lol). 

We decided we were most interested in the events on September 19. So, we booked a room for the 18th and once that was all squared away, I purchased the all session day pass for 9/19. 

Any other bloggers planning to be there that day? Would love to at least say hi!