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Main Boards => General Walking Discussion => Topic started by: Mel on 21:31:35, 19/11/20
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I’ve just been looking through my ViewRanger stats for the past year. You know, like you do, when you’re really bored and there’s nowt on telly.
Minutes of fun I’ve had filtering by month, by distance, by location, by duration. But what did make me chuckle was when I was looking at the height gain and it became glaringly obvious why I struggle as soon as I’m faced with any kind of gradient:
(https://i.postimg.cc/25B11kyn/Height-Gain.jpg)
;D :'(
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A friend of mine has been using the fire escape to his apartment in Norwich since the Covid outbreak and manages 1000 feet a day.
So Norwich seems like a good move.
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Lucky you Mel.
I am trying to rehabilitate an achilles tendon at present - the flattest shortest circular road route out of the door is 3.5 miles and is 190 feet of up and down. We call it the "Flat Walk"
Any other circular road walk from my front door over 4 miles long involves at least 350 feet of ascent and every one has at least one hill with a steep hill chevron on the map. The most convenient walk includes a road with a hill with one chevron and another with a double chevron in less than 5 miles.
My walk log says we have climbed a conservative 95,000 feet so far this year. Devon is what you might call well folded!
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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 :)
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Feel free to move here Mel. My evening jog route is 2.5 miles and 500ft ascent door to door. I'll resist posting up this years total, for fear of playing Top Trumps and then loosing to one of the sites octogenarians. ;D
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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 :)
It's started all ready. I headed out for a quite evening walk today. The plan was to stop on Sharp tor and star gaze for a few hours. Any way in clouded over just on sun set. So I headed back early and found myself walking around Stowe hill, instead of over it. Not sure I recall ever doing that before.
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The east of Scotland has a few more hills than the east of England Mel. We still have some flat bits if you need an easier walk. Northeast of the A96 looks pretty flat, especially when flying into Aberdeen. There are also some long beaches that are great for walking along. We also have the Cairngorms at the other end of the scale, plus plenty of hills that are a bit less demanding.
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Move to West Lancashire, Mel, we've got river embankments which will get your numbers up to at least 75 feet per month.
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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 :)
Hills - and mountains - look far more picturesque from below :)
Should a circuit have corners?
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If you want advice on moving, I can help. We have done it 28 times.
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A sure sign of service life. O0
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A sure sign of service life. O0
I think it is the locals driving him out :D
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A sure sign of service life. O0
I think it is the locals driving him out :D
Same thing. Sometimes the natives were restless, as were some of my bosses. O0
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I use Viewranger to record all my walks.
It records your ascent and descent of your phone, but can't transfer it to the computer.
It works perfectly for any walks South of 60 degrees North, but as soon as I cross that Latitude it stops recording it on the computer.
I have to then take the figure of my phone and keep it in a written diary.
I have spoken to the View ranger team thinking it was something I was doing wrong, but they say it wasn't viable for them to have the coverage North of 60 degrees.
So if anyone visits here any walks to the North of 60 degrees, you will have to get your heights off your phone rather than the computer.
This screws up your computer yearly totalizer for Ascent/descent.
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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. :)
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The 'hill' behind my house is a whole 85m. I do start from sea level though. I try to go up it most days and hope it keeps me a bit fit - an illusion which is shattered whenever I get to a proper hill, which hasn't happened very often this year. I have a feeling that if ever things get back to normal I will be puffing like a grampus and worrying about the state of my heart rate the first long walk I get.
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................ if ever things get back to normal I will be puffing like a grampus ..............
What is a grampus ? surprised to find it's a Rissos's dolphin. Who'd have known
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I think it's a phrase from my youth, don't know where it comes from. Odd, as the only time I have seen a Risso's dolphin up close it didn't puff all, it just swam quietly round the bay for a few hours till it remembered where the open sea was.
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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 O0
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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 O0
Quite a coincidence! My virtual climb up Mount Baldy began at a cable car station and I did 2417ft to the summit (I did the first leg of four as a test the other day when I set up the treadmill). I was accompanied by a virtual trainer named Sally McRae and we passed a couple of snakes along the path - but not rattlesnakes. This was the third time I've done this programme (I love it!), but the previous treadmill was limited to a 12% incline and made the walk easy, whereas the new one goes to 40%, which is very different! I've seen photos of Mt Baldy in the snow and it looks amazing. O0
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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.
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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.
I'll happily post a report soon - in a separate thread of course! Initial impressions are that the NordicTrack X32i is absolutely fantastic!
Almost all of NordicTrack's treadmills were shown as out of stock for some months immediately the first lockdown commenced. Then, in September (I think it was), they said the X32i would be available before the end of the year. Shortly after, they said they were taking advance orders so we went for it. Soon after that, it was shown as out of stock again. I guess the best thing to do is to check the website regularly, or phone them...
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I'm ruing the day I sold my glorified clothes-horse (treadmill) although it was never much good for tracking my height gain on ViewRanger :D
Please do continue with the thread hijack/drift...my OP was mindless, bored witterings of little/no importance anyway ;D
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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 :)
Yep. We are at this stage, Bit of rain. Bit of wind. Cut the walk short. Any excuse lol.
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Keeping it on topic, I sympathise with you Mel. Our local walks in Suffolk are more or less flat, although maybe not always quite as flat as yours going by your OP. Todays walk at just over 4 miles included 130 ft of ascent. As most years we try and do a long distance walk, we almost need a holiday to train for the holiday! Roads provide slightly better hills than paths here and I have been known to don a rucksack and walk several times up and down a short hill at the edge of the village. Goodness what I’ll be like next year when (hopefully) faced with bigger hills. The Chilterns and the Malverns were the best we got to this year. My knees will turn round and go back ;D
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;D The steepest ascent I can walk to from home is the flyover, although I did walk up and down the side of the flood embankment a couple of times on today's walk.
I know what you mean about needing a holiday to train. It takes me about 3 days to get my "hill legs" and it takes about 2 weeks to lose them again :-[
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No avoiding a hill in Grange over Sands! Keeps the dog fit, as well as me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Counting the contour lines still works well for walks in less mountainous areas. More difficult on very steep terrain.