Oh, ok. I thought I read she was ok lunging. I was just wondering if the extra weight could be putting pressure on the leg and causing her foot to hurt.
Oh - she was OK lunging... and for the first part of the ride... then something happened.
You may be part right, it may have been too much too soon, I did have to lunge her quite a long time for her to calm down, and by then she’d worked pretty hard and gotten a good sweat going. She’s not a spring chicken, she’s 19. If she were mine I might have lunged her several days, easier, before riding.
But she did something... either stepped on a rock or stepped wrong so to pull something, at some point. It wasn’t just fatigue or being out of shape.