Episode #34 - John Vonhof (The Foot Guy)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2017
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
John Vonhof should be everybody's best friend. For years, he has been tending the feet of the people who most abuse them—hikers and runners. His experience as an ultra-runner led him to a life-long interest in the treatment of feet, and he understands what we do wrong and how we can correct it. I, along with many of my fellow hikers, completely ignored my feet on the trail. They hurt, my toenails dropped off one by one, and I lost feeling in my toes for about four or five months after I finished. I had no idea how I should treat them and I'll certainly be taking some of the precautions that John shares with us for my upcoming hikes later this year. If you'd like to learn more about the very simple steps you can take to protect these most valuable of assets, click on this link to John's Amazon page. You can also check out his blog, on his website, fixingyourfeet.com. John also has his own podcast, Writers Authors On Fire.
Jessa has hit something of a wall. She has been doing really well to this point and has at last encountered an inevitable downturn. How she copes with this will be the catalyst for her success, or her failure, in completing her hike. We can only wish her well. She'll be sharing her thoughts further in her blog post later today. Thanks again to those of you supporting me on Patreon. Also, your support for my two Appalachian Trail books continues to keep them in the Top 20 Camping books on Amazon. Thanks once more.Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, join Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:25.6 | Hi, welcome back to the show in episode number 34. |
| 0:29.6 | Before I get started, please be aware that the show contains a couple of swear words in my book |
| 0:34.3 | reading at the end, so make sure that your kids aren't listening when we get |
| 0:37.6 | to that part. I don't tend to curse too much in the book, but sometimes I just couldn't avoid it. |
| 0:44.4 | This week we've got somebody on the show who's an expert on one of the most important aspects of |
| 0:49.5 | any through hike. Your feet and their care. John vonhoff is very knowledgeable about feet, |
| 0:56.4 | footwear, toes, toenails, bunions, calluses and pretty much anything to do with your feet. |
| 1:02.8 | Since you spend the entirety of your hike on your feet, this seemed an excellent subject for |
| 1:07.2 | more information, and John certainly delivers. He was suggested to me by listener and |
| 1:12.6 | soon to be hiking buddy, Dawn Bates. Quite why any woman would want to join a group known as |
| 1:18.4 | Fat Guys Back in the Woods is beyond me. Good call Dawn and I'll look forward to hiking with you soon. |
| 1:24.6 | John will be along in a minute or so. Addy has had an interesting week |
| 1:29.5 | this past seven days and I want to lie it all out for you so fear and loathing on the |
| 1:36.1 | Appalachian Trail has been shelved again that will be back next week. Those of you who follow |
| 1:41.8 | Addy must have been impressed with the positivity and generally |
| 1:44.9 | buoyant nature so far. Well, that all took a major turn this week and I want to focus on |
| 1:50.5 | Addie a little bit more than usual. I think I mentioned last week that I was going to be at |
| 1:55.2 | trail days this year in Damascus. I still haven't quite worked out the logistics but I'll be there |
| 1:59.7 | and I would love to catch up with any of you who listen as you hike I'll be the fat bloke who looks as if he's never hiked down his life so look out for me you won't be able to miss me now here's John vonhoff with everything you need to know about looking after your feet and some of the simple precautions you can take to give yourself the best chance of getting from Springer to Katowden or even from Katarden to Springer. Here's John. |
| 2:27.4 | Okay, I'd like to introduce John von Huff. We obviously as hikers need our feet, and John knows a lot about feet. So |
| 2:37.6 | hi John, how are you? Oh, I'm doing well. Thank you for having me on the show. |
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