................ if ever things get back to normal I will be puffing like a grampus ..............
The new incline trainer / treadmill arrived this week and this morning I did my first proper workout. I began with a summit of Mount Maunganui in New Zealand (mostly run, some walk), followed by the second and third stages of the ascent of Mount Baldy in California (mostly walk, some run) plus the descent (mostly run, some walk). 2650ft / 8 miles / 2hr 20m - all without leaving home.
Spookily I have been up both of those in my time on this fine planet. Mt Baldy is a heck of a lot harder and covered in snow at the top, with rattle snakes on the approach ridges, as I recall. Took the cable car most of the way, after my first I'll prepared walk from our motel on Mountain drive was aborted, at around 4300ft
WD, I would be interested in how you get on with your new treadmill. Days get very short up here in the winter and the weather can be bad. It can therefore be difficult to get out, particularly when working. I am trying to get fit again after old injuries flared up and this seems a flexible way to get there. At the moment your particular model appears to be out of stock.PS sorry for continuing the thread drift.
Mel, there comes a time in life when you'd rather walk around summits than over them It's usually accompanied by cutting corners off your circuits
My walk of 4 miles today included 350 feet of ascent. The walk was in the hilliest part of Essex will lots of undulations on the route. I am surprised it was so much ascent. I have done the walk several times and the ascent is the same. However, it may not be accurate as I have just had a look at a recent 2 mile walk along a sea wall alongside an esturary and the ascent was 57 feet which is impossible.
Yesterday I gained 162 metres in a walk of 1.6 miles according to my Garmin watch. The trouble was that it was a circular walk. I must have fallen asleep on the walk and missed the earthquake that moved my house to more than 1,000 feet above sea level.