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The Nepal post got me thinking about this.

Whenever I talk to someone about doing something adventurous like a trek, they say, "Oh, if you can do (x), you won't have any trouble with this!"

X is something I've done recently, like run a marathon, climbed Dead Cat's Wall or gone spelunking.

The thing is...on a good day I can do stuff like that. On a bad day (when my knee locks up or my shoulder slips out of socket) I either creep around like a crab or curl up and bleat like a sheep. I'm really not a crybaby, and I get the idea of working through pain or tireness, but some days, the parts just don't function like they used to.

So..what happens if I have a bad day while I'm out on an adventure? Any of you had this experience? How did you handle it?

La

If successfully completing an adventure type trip is important to me, I'll add extra days to account for anything that might hamper it: bad weather, etc. So, I generally spend my bad days as rest days. Normally, sitting around camp in the tent laughing at my sorry arse.

I'm with you La Rosser. I have female issues. Some women are unbothered by these female occurances, and without going in to details I am not one of those women. My "magic time" as the Koreans call it is very strong. Sometimes I am incapacitated, but that would be just for one day only.

So far I have been able to manage travelling, but definitely have good days, bad (impossible to function) days.

What on earth is "spelunking" ? Cannot find it in the dictionary at all at all at all.


Have a nice day, Whistler.

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What on earth is "spelunking"

Spelunking

Ok OK OK . It's "caving". Is that a new-age word. Ain't niver heeeerd of it maah boy.



Thanks,

Have a nice day, Whistler.

If you can keep a sense of humour and see the funny side of life, you will never be old--SMC

It's always been around, as far as I know. I remember looking it up back in the Eighties when I started Uni and they had a spelunking society

Showing my age, I remember it from the late 60's when a local schoolteacher had "SPLUNKR" as his 'vanity' license plate.

My issue is just energy. Sometimes I just hit the wall. That is when I just let my self sleep and upgrade to a hotel. I have stopped making myself feel bad about not getting out and going....sometimes I just can't. The rest of the time I push myself through but stopped feeling like I am "wasting time" resting up.

I worry about this also. I have a bad back and sometimes it goes out and I cant move. I desperately want to go to India this year by myself because even tho I love my man dearly I need an adventure alone! I will be doing a crash yoga course for the next 2 months hoping that it will help. Getting old sucks but I am hellbent and determined not to let it stop me from living my life.

I got caught in snow when treking in Nepal years ago - wrenched a knee which made it very hard to put weight on it going down steps -and there's a lot of steps on the Everest trek. Initially I could only go 1/2 the normal distance -stopping at lunch time instead of going on to the next night stop. I was fine because I wasnt on an organised tour, I moved at my own pace and met up with my mates 10 days later in Namche Bazaar. I am very wary of going on organised trips because of this.