{"id":3087,"date":"2016-08-05T15:01:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T22:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2016-08-06T12:14:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T19:14:19","slug":"training-for-a-mount-whitney-day-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/training-for-a-mount-whitney-day-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Training for a Mount Whitney day hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this 21 miles roundtrip, 6000 ft-plus up and down hike, here&#8217;s how I trained:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Running every second day for some months, usually in the 3-5 mile range, sometimes 7-8 miles.<\/li>\n<li>I worked that up to one (my first) half-marathon one weekend.<\/li>\n<li>On weekends, hiked up the local hills (~1000ft altitude change) at the highest speed I could muster.<\/li>\n<li>Also hiked a couple of 20 miles+ hikes for distance at a brisk pace. They didn&#8217;t have much in terms of elevation.<\/li>\n<li>For better measure, I did a night hike to see how to hike with a flash light and a head lamp. That was sort of fun, but not entirely necessary.<\/li>\n<li>Added: About 10 days before the hike, on three days, I also spent 30-60 min each on the stairmaster at the local gym.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Having done this, I had no issues with endurance up and down Mt Whitney. I did not feel like my legs were overexerted. It&#8217;s been two days since, and yes, I have some sore muscles in my calves, but it is entirely manageable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_2992.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3088\" alt=\"IMG_2992\" src=\"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_2992-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_2992-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_2992-432x432.png 432w, https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_2992-268x268.png 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>One side effect: I feel like I&#8217;m in good shape &#8212; well, there&#8217;s also some evidence, see to the right :-) &#8212; and that feels good!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this 21 miles roundtrip, 6000 ft-plus up and down hike, here&#8217;s how I trained: Running every second day for some months, usually in the 3-5 mile range, sometimes 7-8 miles. I worked that up to one (my first) half-marathon one weekend. On weekends, hiked up the local hills (~1000ft altitude change) at the highest&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3169,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}