ace bandage

[tracker]

Go to a Sports Authority and get a velco adjustable knee brace, one with the hole for the knee cap.

My wife uses this kind and it has worked out well. Also, use trekking poles not just 1 pole. It will help. :P
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What a minute! I'm not too far behind Nealz and I don't consider myself old. Not yet anyway! Downhill is always harder on your body with any amount of impact. The first time I ran the Whiskey Row Marathon I trained on alot of hills here. Not only did I try to run long stretches of hills I ran at the parks along the canal and would run up to (but always walked down) the canal appox 50 times at least 3x a week. I thought I was ready but when it came to the downhills my body, knees esp. screamed. I couldn't walk for days, let alone run because of my left knee. I felt it on my first decent after the turnaround. I regularly strenth train but a fellow runner suggested the 'one legged squat' (I suggested this to someone on the OTHER site) I have not had any problems with my knee since as long as I do it religiously. I ran the next Whiskey Row with a PR and no knee pain after. Good luck.

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[Shawn]

My lungs like downhill, my knees like uphill. They fight over this all the time.
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[overrocked]

Yeah, those spencer specials that you put in boiling water and get to contour your foot are great. my feet have never been better. That's a good idea though, maybe i should put some superfeet in my work shoes...hmmmmmm
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[Mrs Mike]

I must be very strange, but I like downhill MUCH more than uphill. I have asthma, so I have a tendency to have asthma attacks on the way up if I'm not VERY careful. Thank God for inhalers. They have saved my lungs many times, especially on hikes!!

[cactuscat]

I agree with you, Mrs. Mike - downhill is much better!

[ck1]

I like both the up and the down...as long as there are plenty of flats inbetween
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[mike]

[evenstar]

I wanna do a rim to rim this spring!
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[Daddee]

I used to prefer downhill - because I could work up a really good head of steam if the trail was clear and practically run down - it's an actuall skill/sport called "Talus Running" if you do it on rocy enough terrain.

But then I became old and lazy and now, like Sredfield - my knees like up, my lungs like down, and they have come to blows over the subject - at least I am assuming that's what that pain in my side sometimes is telling me.
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[evenstar]

North to south....No way do I wanna face North Kaibab as the LAST part of that hike! I hiked the six miles out to Ribbon Falls during my middle day at Phantom last May; I figure as slight as the ascent was for that first six miles, the remaining what? eight plus miles? gotta be a killer. I figure my strength has always been stamina....had it as a runner and, give me a nice smooth trail like No. Kaibab and BA or So. Kaibab, and give me time to get back into the shape I was in two months ago when GTG got me lost on an 11 mile hike that turned out to be.....but I degress....really confident I can do rim to rim with no problem, as long as I have sense enough to do it North to south. ive been thinking about it since there was talk of doing it last Oct., Just been trying to figure out..Do I take the motor home over to Noorth rim, drive the jeep back....nevermind.
Wish you people would quit posting so I could go to bed; gotta get up early tomorrow for my vacation.
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[Daddee]