Ep. 996: Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail With Chronic Pain - Peter Conti
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
It was 23 months after Peter’s accident and he was still dealing with constant excruciating pain. He'd seen dozens of doctors and tried a myriad of medications, but nothing seemed to work. Faced with the impossible choice of suffering through the rest of his life, he had an unlikely epiphany: "If I could somehow hike 2,000 miles on the Appalachian Trail, then my leg will have to be better, right?”
With no real camping or outdoor experience, Peter set a starting date a mere three weeks out, cobbled together a novice's pack, and set off on a journey destined to change his life forever—though not exactly how he had envisioned it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:25.1 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:26.1 | Today's episode is really, really good with Peter Conti here. |
| 0:30.6 | We're going to talk about overcoming chronic pain. |
| 0:34.6 | And a lot of times when we talk about, you know, difficulties on this show and |
| 0:38.8 | obstacles, it's things that have, you know, you faced, but now they're behind you. But what about |
| 0:44.3 | when those things are always with you? It can really limit your scope or your imagination, what |
| 0:50.8 | you feel like you can do. I've definitely been there. I've had some knee trouble and just, |
| 0:55.7 | you know, you get this idea that, you know, you can't do as much as you used to could or whatnot. |
| 1:01.3 | But Peter comes along and just blows that out of the water. He's in pain all the time and he's like, |
| 1:07.1 | you know what? I'm just going to go through hike the Appalachian Trail, like just a crazy idea and had to make some modifications to make it happen, |
| 1:15.6 | but he did it and he made it happen. |
| 1:17.6 | And that is something that he achieved. |
| 1:20.1 | And holy cow, the stories from this experience are, one, hilarious. |
| 1:25.3 | And two, just, I mean, they're endless. |
| 1:30.4 | So I'm excited to read more into the book the name of his book by the way is only when i step on it the book has a ton of amazing reviews |
| 1:37.2 | and we're going to be giving away a copy today all you got to do is email me or send us a message |
| 1:43.8 | at adventure sports Podcast on Instagram or |
| 1:46.8 | Facebook or email at info atadventuresportspodcast.com. All you got to email me is |
| 1:52.9 | Peter's trail name. So everybody on the Appalachian Trail that does a through hike |
| 1:58.7 | typically gets a trail name. So if you listen to this episode and you hear the trail name, email that, message it over to us. And if you're the first one to do that, you get a copy of the book. And also, I recently did a really big, well, big for me, adventure. And it was just a single day, but it was really cool thing. No one's ever done it. And I'm going to do a |
| 2:17.6 | little debrief of that whole thing here soon. I'm just going to do a little monologue, record. And it'll be weird for me to kind of like sit down and talk about it like that without someone asking me questions about it, but I'm going to give it a shot. And I would love to share it with y'all and just try to share more about the how-to behind adventures and just some of the ideas |
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