[at-l] post thru-hike aches and pains

[garyticknor@starpower.net (Gary Ticknor)]

The answer is quite simple of course: walk home!

- Gary from Fairfax

Sloetoe wrote:

> I think it's a government plot. In all of my driving/hiking, I've never
> suffered from this till a month ago, coming back to Indy from the Smokys'
> hike with Stitches. It was really irritating. Did it again last Saturday,
> returning to Indy from the 50K waltz-in-sneaux; THAT was agony.
>
> --- Gary Ticknor <garyticknor@starpower.net> wrote:
> > As my section hikes get further and further from Northern Virginia, and
> > at the same time longer (to make all that driving worthwhile) I find at
> the end of a 5 day hike it gets to be agony to sit and drive 9 hours to
> get home. Getting out and stretching is no longer a pleasant break but an
> urgent necessity.> - Gary from Fairfax
> >
> > > ...My knees didn't really bother me until after the hike.  Then they
> > hated to be in one position for a long time.  We had to stop a bunch of
> times on the 2-day drive home (to Mass) just so I could straighten my legs
> and move my knees around.  They really bothered me unless I moved them
> often.  ... Twilight
>
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