[at-l] Birthday wishes n' stuff

[Sloetoe]

--- Jan Leitschuh <janl2 at mindspring.com> wrote:

> >And the work doesn't end when the hike does. Life
> goes on, and you keep  >paying  for your "gift".
>  
> You too?
> > A thruhike can be tough on you in many ways. 
> 
> Any other thruhikers here kinda thinking maybe their
> hikes gave them arthritis?
> I've had "hiker hobble" ever since my thru.
> It came about Neel's Gap  and never left.
> ;-)
> I feel as if I should be on Vioxx on a daily basis.

### I don't know any details about you guys and your
muscle (mis)arrangements, but I can tell you that
after having not run at all for months, I went on a
fast-ish 2 mile walk the other night (took me about 40
minutes -- 3 miles per hour, about my top speed),
ordered some Chinese food, and when I went to stand up
and leave with my order, found my legs tied up in
painful knots. Mostly hips. HUGE pain. "Hiker hobble"
(except I know it more as runner) huge-like. I had to
stop 4 times in the half-mile walk home to stretch the
quads to allow my hips some normal range of motion.
BUT ONCE I DID THAT, all was good for another 100-200
yards. It'll probably be the same thing when I start
running again -- I've been there before.

### My point is, FOR ME, my problems stem from joints
out-of-whack because the muscles are completely
imbalanced, and that once I get everything back to a
uniform state of conditioning, all should be well (as
it has been in the past). I HOPE that would be the
case with you, too. STRETCH! Do yoga! Go to a PT who
knows their shieze (as most do) and have them find out
where you are being tied up, and have at it. Don't
take "No" as an answer from your body.

Please?
'toe

Spatior! Nitor! Nitor! Tempero!
   Pro Pondera Et Meliora.