[at-l] Kinda trip report and hip pain is less!

[askowronek at mindspring.com (amy)]

On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 11:20  AM, Kelly Whitman wrote:

> I used a slightly newer pair of NBs and my hip pain was somewhat less. 
>  The other pair wasn't old, though; am I going to need a new pair of 
> shoes every month on the trail?!  That's going to be hella expensive, 
> but I suppose it's preferable to sucking down ibuoprfen.  I also got 
> my first blister!  Woohoo!  (That'll learn me to walk that far without 
> hiking socks.)  After a hike, I usually shave down callouses and 
> punice my feet, then apply a nice oil (I like soft feets).  Would it 
> be better to stop doing that, since I won't be doing it on the trail, 
> and let my feet toughen up a bit?

IMHO, yes.  Let your feet toughen up.

>
> I'll do two more 7 milers this weekend, finding a good way to deal 
> with that blister, making three back-to-back, and see how my hips do 
> with all that.
>

Good luck!

-amy