Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The past two days

Monday: After receiving my delicious orange from the random lady in the morning I hit the trail at about 8am or so. I had very little motivation to hike yesterday. There was a detour from the PCT that took you on a road for a little while in the morning to 'save the endangered frogs' that live on that particular section of trail. Road walks always goes by faster than trail, although it didn't last very long before I was back on trail. Total PCT miles for Monday = 23.
Tuesday (today): I woke up today feeling pretty shitty. My leg hurt and I was extreamly tired. The first hill took pretty much all my energy. I stopped for lunch at mile 11 but didn't stay very long. In order to hike the same amount of miles as the people around me I really have to spend more time hiking. My leg prevents me from hiking any faster than 2 miles an hour. Although, it wasn't my leg that was giving me the most trouble today. It was the poison oak I have all over the top of my foot; the same foot that belongs to my gimp leg. When I took off my sock last night I just about screamed when I saw all the puss blisters that had formed on the top of my foot. I have NO idea how I managed to expose the top of my foot to anything poison!! I don't have camp shoes so even while walking around camp I usually slip my shoes on. The only thing I can think of is that I came into contact with it at the hot springs when I was walking around to jump off the rope swing. I wrapped it up to protect it best I could from all the rubbing of my 22.6 mile day today but by the time I had taken off my ace bandage (that was holding my bone steady) I realized that it had spread all on that part of my leg as well. So this is my current situation: puss poison oak blister on my foot and leg, cracked bone on the same leg, and no real way to wrap said cracked bone without severely irratating the puss blisters. This is one of those moments that you just laugh...and press on as best as you can.
I'm only 24 miles away from a trail angels house so hopefully by tomorrow night or the following morning I will have some resources to better this situation. Until th en...press on!

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