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Ok....so my boot saga is far from over it seems.
I know someone else posted a side of calf pain issue recently, and I read through that thread but I think I'm having a different issue and it's perplexing both myself and my bootfitter.
So when I ski in the morning, if I don't keep my boots super super loose (as in almost unfastened on the uppers) I get this debilitating pain on the outside of my left calf, right above my ankle. Even when I don't fasten them super tight (and I never crank down my buckles and after one run they're still really loose) my left calf just kills me. It hurts on the run, it hurts on the lift, it hurts just standing. It hurts the rest of the day. At Homewood this past weekend, I took my boots off at lunch and I couldn't even put weight on that leg just walking - don't ask me how I skied the rest of the day. Three days later, it STILL hurts - up to yesterday that area was hard and looked like there was fluid or something under. I have no idea what's up.
I don't know if it's a stance issue or boot issue or what. I actually had this exact same problem with snowboarding boots the one and only time I boarded (before skiing). Same leg, same place, boots laced up too tight?
My bootfitter thought at first that maybe it was the tongue of my liner rubbing against my leg, but it's the wrong location (the painful area is farther back).
He's talked to my most recent instructor, and they're both wondering if maybe my boot is too stiff (it's the Rossi JR Pro 70) and I'm straining my leg trying to get forward, so he's thinking of softening them up a touch to see if that helps.
But we're both a little perplexed. I figured maybe it was time to ask you ladies if you've ever run into anything like this, and if you have any suggestions!
On the plus side! My instructor told him I was skiing really well and he was teaching me things that he would teach skiers who have been skiing for years (and that I was getting them)!
I know someone else posted a side of calf pain issue recently, and I read through that thread but I think I'm having a different issue and it's perplexing both myself and my bootfitter.
So when I ski in the morning, if I don't keep my boots super super loose (as in almost unfastened on the uppers) I get this debilitating pain on the outside of my left calf, right above my ankle. Even when I don't fasten them super tight (and I never crank down my buckles and after one run they're still really loose) my left calf just kills me. It hurts on the run, it hurts on the lift, it hurts just standing. It hurts the rest of the day. At Homewood this past weekend, I took my boots off at lunch and I couldn't even put weight on that leg just walking - don't ask me how I skied the rest of the day. Three days later, it STILL hurts - up to yesterday that area was hard and looked like there was fluid or something under. I have no idea what's up.
I don't know if it's a stance issue or boot issue or what. I actually had this exact same problem with snowboarding boots the one and only time I boarded (before skiing). Same leg, same place, boots laced up too tight?
My bootfitter thought at first that maybe it was the tongue of my liner rubbing against my leg, but it's the wrong location (the painful area is farther back).
He's talked to my most recent instructor, and they're both wondering if maybe my boot is too stiff (it's the Rossi JR Pro 70) and I'm straining my leg trying to get forward, so he's thinking of softening them up a touch to see if that helps.
But we're both a little perplexed. I figured maybe it was time to ask you ladies if you've ever run into anything like this, and if you have any suggestions!
On the plus side! My instructor told him I was skiing really well and he was teaching me things that he would teach skiers who have been skiing for years (and that I was getting them)!