God DAMN it. I ran over to a theatre group meeting early this evening and, two blocks from my destination: *pop* I turned it again. Mo-ther-FUCK-er. I had to walk the rest of the way, but fortunately the pain had, for the most part, subsided for the run home. I have a crazy, goose egg of swelling over my ankle bone. I've been in this kind of ankle sprain loop before, and it kind of sucks. It starts getting in your head and you start doing really stupid things like almost rolling over on the ankle while walking over across your yard. Not sure if it's really a mental thing or if the ankle is actually in such a compromised physical state.
In any event-exactly the condition I want to be in for my upcoming slot canyon backpacking trip!
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Don't make TClog look Herculean.
Maybe take it easy the rest of the week.
We went for a hike yesterday, 3 hours round trip up to a fire tower and back (something like 7 miles). Humid, 90+ degrees and the bugs were insane. I hiked in sandals and managed to avoid crippling injuries over the rocks and roots.
You & Faith?
Where was the hike?
Insane bugs. Yuck. We had a hike like that a couple of weeks ago, much shorter as a result of the bugs. I had Lucy in the backpack. Sharon & her sister spent the whole time brushing horseflies off Lucy's legs. Even so, she went into school the next day with nasty welts all over.
Horseflies are the worst. If running, you can escape mosquitos. Flies will continue buzzing you and slamming into your head unless you're at mad-dash speed, zigzagging and faking about on the trail, which isn't particularly safe nor sustainable, energy-wise.
Faith, me and a friend visiting from Denver.
The hike was at Pawtuckaway State park in NH, which we may have been to. I know I've been there with Gibbons, and it seems like you and I went there on one of your visits.
We had all those bugs.
There was one stretch where everything I squashed in place left me covered in blood. Horseflies are insane out here this year seemingly due to the rain. Mosquitoes too, but the horsefly thing could drive a man completely mad.
We could find ourselves far, far from the watercourse in Escalante, if we find a similar situation there. I'm hopeful, in that I don't think they've had a particularly wet breeding period, but I'm definitely loading myself up with chemicals, just in case.
I suspect TClog provides a richer target. I'm going to use hima as a human shield.
Good idea, Super Mario.
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