I had a look at a circuit near Binsted. It seemed to be 90% on footpaths, and the cache page said that there were lots of stiles, so I decided to do it on foot.
The first 40 caches (1 to 40), I felt that I could easily have biked; only one stile. But after that, the route got very stylised.
I did 65 caches in total, and that took me 7 hours (lunch was delayed until 5pm). Early on, I was doing 10 per hour, and then got that up to about 12 per hour, but I slowed down a lot for the last 20, because:
A) My left heel was hurting each step I took. Probably my plantar fascitis, which is the reason why I mostly cache by bike.
B) And my left ankle, which felt like it was sprained, but only intermittently, although by the time I reached those last 20, it was continuous.
C) And then my right heel (see left heel)
D) And then my thighs were complaining about all the walking effort, and I could barely get over stiles.
E) And my back, which just seems to start aching after I go more than about seven miles.
By the time I got back home, I needed a crane to get me out of the car.
I did a bit more than ten miles today, which is clearly too much.
65 caches found, no DNFs.
plantar fascitis....look into shock wave treatment. I had and it got so painful had to do something about it. After three treatments it went away completely and has not returned. Tony (TheTwoMotts)
ReplyDeleteI know about plantar fasciitis, I've had it before. I don't think this is it, it feels quite different, and it's pretty much gone now (a week later).
ReplyDeleteHere's my recipe for dealing with it:
http://blog.drsolly.com/2014/08/plantar-fasciitis-is-back.html