First of all, congrats to Ben for signing up for his first ultra! He is doing the North Face Endurance 50. The funny thing is, Ben has already run this distance...even farther! Once he did 75! What a crazy mo-fo!
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My upper body is a little sore right now from the workout I did yesterday. It is a good feeling, though. Pain is when all that crappy weakness that clings to your muscles decides to leave the body. Get out, weakness!
Pullups are going really good. I found a new tree in the side yard that will work as a bar when I don't want to go to the school or park.
On the pushups, I am making sure to get all the way up. I think my form was slipping a little, so when I did supersets yesterday I usually dropped my chest to the ground, and then fully extended the arms.
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I have this idea about running the Appalachian Trail (AP) sometime. It would definitely be very grueling and demanding, both physically and mentally, but I think it would be the best way that a summer could be spent.
Trek dates? Maybe start next May after school gets out...that will allow me 3.5 months. What would be awesome would be to finish in 3. For me, that is about as fast of a goal possible. 47 days is the record...Karl Meltzer did it in just about 56 days.
90 days, I think that would be a very challenging (and I would like to think do-able) goal. That is 24.2 miles a day.
Wow! Do you realize that anyone who does the AP is more badass than Dean Karnazes and his 50/50/50?
26.2 miles a day for 50 days...come on, Dean! How about 46 miles a day for 47 days (like Andrew Thompson in his 2005 AP record).
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I also found out that Tom Unger has a goal of trekking the entire AP too! Sure, he has not been running that much, but he is a tremendous athlete and I am sure that in 11 months he could train and be ready for such a trek.
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Yes, all of this seems very ____ (I don't know what word I am loooking for), but being out in nature for all that time just seems like a good idea.
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Other cool trails include the Pacific Crest Trail and the Continental Divide Trail.
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Okay, I don't know any of the names you're dropping here... other than Ben of course. Oh, and Dean K because I learned of him when you dropped his name another time.
Wow, if you do the AP, that would be awesome! I've actually heard that the Pacific Crest trail is more grueling, although less well known.
I agree, the AP trail would be a momentousness task and achievement. I think it's a great goal to have considering I feel that you would have a blast doing it. ~24 miles a day is painful to even think about.
Good for the upper body soreness. The weakness leaves and is replaced by...non-weakness or strongness.
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