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dancing_crowI did go ride today
it was lovely, EXCEPT
my boots are so tight I could just barely zip them up, which means
I have not been regulating my weight as well as i thought, and also that
I need to do something about the boots, because it is summer, and I cannot ride in the winter muck boots because my toes will bake and be completely and utterly disgusting and distressing. Although the gray horse goes to Martha's Vineyard for the summer, so unless I do something else in the scrounging up someone to ride department, riding through high summer is not actually going to be a problem.
It feels stupid to invest in boots when I am deciding to spend less time riding and when I feel like i have no goals. but I think I killed the boot curse with this pair. Because i used to ride always in cheap rubber boots, and they were fine, and when I outgrew them neither my mother nor I cared much and I could stomp through everything and not worry. And then I tried to get serious, and twice I sprung for leather tall boots and twice I stopped riding within a couple months, for long enough that the boots never fit again. This pair I got in 2004, I think, and I've used them steadily, and they have never come all the way up my shin, and as they've aged and softened, they've slumped worse... and I hate my legs looking stumpy. So much of my body is unexpected when photographed, this pisses me off aditionally. Although having my legs look wrong in irons because my boots are doing the wrong thing is insult rather than injury.
so NOw what do i do? prolly stretch them, and then decide later. I think I am overthinking this. Advice welcomed.
it was lovely, EXCEPT
my boots are so tight I could just barely zip them up, which means
I have not been regulating my weight as well as i thought, and also that
I need to do something about the boots, because it is summer, and I cannot ride in the winter muck boots because my toes will bake and be completely and utterly disgusting and distressing. Although the gray horse goes to Martha's Vineyard for the summer, so unless I do something else in the scrounging up someone to ride department, riding through high summer is not actually going to be a problem.
- I could stretch the calfs and they would fit around my legs again, except they are not quite tall enough and make my legs look stumpy
- I could replace them with ones that come up high enough to make my legs look longer instead of stumpy
- I could go straight to paddock boots and half chaps and never think too hard about weight again, which would probably be wiser financially as well
- I could just soldier on, but it's not a very kind option
- go western, and buy cowboy boots instead. red ones.
It feels stupid to invest in boots when I am deciding to spend less time riding and when I feel like i have no goals. but I think I killed the boot curse with this pair. Because i used to ride always in cheap rubber boots, and they were fine, and when I outgrew them neither my mother nor I cared much and I could stomp through everything and not worry. And then I tried to get serious, and twice I sprung for leather tall boots and twice I stopped riding within a couple months, for long enough that the boots never fit again. This pair I got in 2004, I think, and I've used them steadily, and they have never come all the way up my shin, and as they've aged and softened, they've slumped worse... and I hate my legs looking stumpy. So much of my body is unexpected when photographed, this pisses me off aditionally. Although having my legs look wrong in irons because my boots are doing the wrong thing is insult rather than injury.
so NOw what do i do? prolly stretch them, and then decide later. I think I am overthinking this. Advice welcomed.