The Doctors visit

    I finally got an appointment to go see the doctor, and after some tests and a lot of wiggling my knee around and pokes and prods, he told me that I had a tear in my meniscus, on my left knee, and this is why it was hurting me. Then told me something really cool. He said, “As your doctor, professionally I’m saying that you should stop hiking, and rest your knee. Now with that said, I’m not looking from your perspective. I think that you can keep going if you, wear a brace, take Aleve, slow down your miles and the length of your days.” 
    So this brings me to what my new goal’s are for the year, I will stay on the trail, doing two weeks here, then rest a week or so, then go back and do two weeks there.  The other goal has changed from doing the whole trail this season, to doing over 1,000 miles of the trail. Basically I want to get to the north border of California.