Hi all,
I broke my ankle last June. A bad, compound, nasty, shattered fibula and tib broken, too. I am healing well, thanks be! This has, of course, included lots of hard work and ongoing testing of the boundary between what makes me stronger and what sets me back. Stats: age 60, height 5'4", weight 125lbs. I have always been a very active, and this summer I will be doing the Dingle Way (Ireland - walking vacation) with some friends. I am prepared to use a bicycle rather than walking the 8-15 miles per day. However, I had an opportunity to test out a bit more hiking this past week and was pleased to be able to do short (3 miles max) hikes without feeling like I was doing the ankle more harm than good. I think I can do bits of the Dingle on foot and still use the bicycle prn. I used a pair of average trekking/walking/hiking poles/sticks and found I was able to use them to good advantage. I could tell because on the second day when I set out I realized my tricep muscles had been well worked the day before! I hope that included lots of my weight, not just gripping and planting hard....
My question (thanks for reading the above novel) is, would I be better off with a cane style grip or the traditional vertical grip? I just wonder if I could bear more weight on the sticks with the cane style grip. My current poles have a lot of miles on them and I am ready for a new pair. They need to be the telescoping type, I have no interest in making a fashion statement with them, I may want to add a rubber tip to use them in the city as well for getting from pub to pub B) (haha). Any advice will be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Crankle
I broke my ankle last June. A bad, compound, nasty, shattered fibula and tib broken, too. I am healing well, thanks be! This has, of course, included lots of hard work and ongoing testing of the boundary between what makes me stronger and what sets me back. Stats: age 60, height 5'4", weight 125lbs. I have always been a very active, and this summer I will be doing the Dingle Way (Ireland - walking vacation) with some friends. I am prepared to use a bicycle rather than walking the 8-15 miles per day. However, I had an opportunity to test out a bit more hiking this past week and was pleased to be able to do short (3 miles max) hikes without feeling like I was doing the ankle more harm than good. I think I can do bits of the Dingle on foot and still use the bicycle prn. I used a pair of average trekking/walking/hiking poles/sticks and found I was able to use them to good advantage. I could tell because on the second day when I set out I realized my tricep muscles had been well worked the day before! I hope that included lots of my weight, not just gripping and planting hard....
My question (thanks for reading the above novel) is, would I be better off with a cane style grip or the traditional vertical grip? I just wonder if I could bear more weight on the sticks with the cane style grip. My current poles have a lot of miles on them and I am ready for a new pair. They need to be the telescoping type, I have no interest in making a fashion statement with them, I may want to add a rubber tip to use them in the city as well for getting from pub to pub B) (haha). Any advice will be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Crankle