One common reason for this to occur is that your sciatic nerve instead of running deep under your gluteal muscles courses more superficially through the muscle. When you externally rotate your feet so that your heels come close together inorder for your feet to contact the peddles, this position then causes the head of the femor to push down on the sciatic and accompaning blood vessels with the pressure of your sitting body. Normally this would not cause problems except for this unusual position we are in when sitting in a kayak. You might try getting a kayak that you can keep your feet in a more streight up position. Unfortunately this often requires a more higher volume kayak. Every so often try streightening your feet by moving them toward the center of your boat where there is more deck height. Good luck Richard _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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