Mt. San Jacinto Outdoor Recreation

by **bikersage** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 9:00 am

i was training for the cactus to clouds hike for this month and my old football knee injury from 40 years ago kicked in......

by **Hikin_Jim** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 11:02 am

Ouch. Yeah, those old injuries. I've had knee problems since at least the 70's. No let up there.

HJ

by **HH8** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 12:40 pm

Injuries don't make it impossible, but do change how and when you can do it.

by **hawkbill666** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:54 pm

I have had knee problems for two decades and finally had to stop running.
I was training for the C2C 8 months ago and fell pretty bad onto my right knee, in the mountains just to the south of the musuem. I actually slipped and fell straight down with my left leg straight out but my right leg folded up underneath me. (one of those yell out loud moments) My right knee hurt and was gimpy every single day from that point forward and I had to cut my aerobic conditioning down 80%. I went and got orthodics which helped "a bit". I completed C2C last month while monitoring my knee the whole time. It never got better, but it never got worse, which is what I was really concerned about. Strangely in the past several weeks it has felt much better.

I was initially frustrated and angry about it, especially when I fell in view of skyline! But I gave it alot of focus, and tried a bunch of new things, and its worked out well enough for me to hike cautiously.

by **bikersage** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:31 am

a couple of year ago i was almost to the museum when i tore my calf...... :cry:

by **bikersage** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:33 am

i mean i was almost to the picnic tables from the museum.....sheeesh

by **Hikin_Jim** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 2:15 pm

Ouch!

HJ

by **zippetydude** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:02 pm

bikersage wrote:a couple of year ago i was almost to the museum when i tore my calf......

I was wondering...picturing you walking across the street toward the museum...didn't seem like that rough of terrain just yet.

Maybe you can do some conditioning in the snow. You can ice the injury right away if you need to.

z

by **bluerail** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 6:03 pm

snow...a good thing

by **HH8** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 7:38 pm

zippetydude wrote: in the snow. You can ice the injury right away if you need to.

z

beats waiting for a passing stream to dip it in, plus you kin fill a bandana with snow for a compress-on-the-go

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