Ep. 483: The Importance of Foot Care on Adventures Revisited - Jon Vonhof
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Foot pain and blisters - most of us, in our Adventure hobbies, have had to deal with these annoying ailments. Jon Vonhof is here today to educate us on proper foot care and hopefully to provide a few good tips and tricks that will keep our feet out of trouble. Jon is an ultra-runner and foot care expert. He’s volunteered his knowledge and services at running events around the globe patching up 1000’s of tattered feet. He spends time speaking to runners and hikers about being good stewards of their feet. With more than 20 ultra-marathons under his belt including competing 3 times in the 100-mile Western States ultra and 10 times in the Santa Rosa 24-hour track run, John has the experience to guide us to great foot care. His book “Fixing Your Feet: Injury Prevention & Treatments for Athletes” is I it’s 6th edition and continues to be a leading manual for proper foot care.
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| 0:00.0 | just know what you're doing. And if you take some time and learn what do my feet need, |
| 0:06.4 | what unusual things are there about my feet that I need to educate myself about, |
| 0:12.1 | you can go from possible failure to success. |
| 0:19.4 | This is the adventure sports podcast where we talk to athletes, adventurers, and business owners from around the world of adventure sports. |
| 0:27.8 | Whether you're climbing Mount Everest, starting a bike shop, or getting up off your couch to take your kids hiking for the first time, |
| 0:34.5 | we want you to have the motivation and inspiration you need to chase that |
| 0:38.5 | next adventure. |
| 0:40.0 | The Adventure Sports podcast is brought to you by Camp Crate, the leaders in fully planned |
| 0:45.2 | self-guided backpacking adventures, as well as backpacking gear rental. |
| 0:49.9 | You can check them out at campcrate.net. |
| 0:53.3 | Thank you. You can check them out at campcrate.net. |
| 1:04.6 | Quick warning. |
| 1:08.7 | My dog is chewing on a toy in the background, |
| 1:12.3 | and she is so stinking cute that I'm not even going to disturb her. |
| 1:18.1 | So if you hear something, that's what it is. Plus, come on, this show ain't, you know, we don't record this in a soundproof studio. Life is all around us. You'll hear a screaming baby in a couple |
| 1:23.2 | months. I try to keep that to a minimum though. But anyway, to this episode, today's episode, |
| 1:29.4 | chances are you have a foot. There's even a probably a better chance that you have two of them, |
| 1:37.6 | and they are constantly in contact with the ground, with your equipment for a lot of us, even if our sport |
| 1:48.2 | doesn't involve direct feet contact to equipment or ground, there's going to be some of it |
| 1:55.3 | surrounding it peripherally. |
| 1:56.6 | Like if you're a paraglider, like we talked with Adrian Garz on Monday, he still has to |
| 2:00.6 | hike up to the top of the volcano to fly off. So foot care is huge. And many of you out there |
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