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24 times would be serious exercise!rises to the dizzy height of 33 meters
Thanks for your response CC. It was a serious business at the time, because I had committed myself to the Route Napoleon with my son, who had taken 10 days off work to accompany me. 800m on the first day seemed like lunacy. As it was, when we pedallled out of St Jean I thought - you can do this, you’ve done it before. And indeed we had a wonderful 10 days together as far as Burgos, after which I continued on my own.24 times would be serious exercise!My neighbourhood is quite flat although I live in a region full of hills and mountains. One of my regular walking routes involves a set of about 200 stairs down to the beach. I calculate that would be about 40 m, and I can't imagine doing it 10 times, let alone 24!
Thanks, PaulI’m 75, and the prospect of having to wait another year before my next Camino means I have to take my fitness seriously, or things might start to go rapidly downhill.
As you can see, I’m a bicigrino, so a training ride several times a week is a must.
@ Davebug posted a picture today of his training area on the “View from your bedroom window” thread. I thought, “Blimey, a bit different from mine”.
I live on the NW coast of Australia, and my problem is that the terrain is dead flat and featureless, except for a long sand ridge a few kilometres out of town, which rises to the dizzy height of 33 meters. Conveniently for me there’s a 1.2km now-crumbling bitumen road which goes to the top, and I have been known to do multiple consecutive ascents: (24 on one mad occasion, when I was worried about ever having the stamina to make it to Orisson: I did).
The road is there because in the 1960’s NASA arrived here and built a big tracking station facility on top of the ridge - one of the three major ones across the globe. There used to be a big control centre, several big dishes, range-rate antennas, boresite towers, and even a power station. All that remains now are the concrete pads, and occasional buried stuff that reappears out of the red dust after half a century. The place is now closed off, but the puny fence around the site is non-existent in places so I can easily gain access, - but don’t tell anybody. It makes me sad every time I go up there: I think it should be a world heritage site. Our tracking station was crucial to putting Armstrong on the moon.
So, even in our present circumstances, I won’t need to worry about social-distancing on what I call NASA Hill. I never see a soul. And hopefully I can keep my knees functioning, until next year. I’ll post a couple of pictures. I’m proud of our contribution to world history.
I share your frustration. I am 80 and I don’t know how many more Caminos I have left so as this year is out then I have to keep working on next year. However, my philosophy is “A body in motion stays in motion”. So, I have to get out and hit them there hills. I am lucky to have hills and canyons outside my back gate with very few people.I’m 75, and the prospect of having to wait another year before my next Camino means I have to take my fitness seriously, or things might start to go rapidly downhill.
As you can see, I’m a bicigrino, so a training ride several times a week is a must.
@ Davebug posted a picture today of his training area on the “View from your bedroom window” thread. I thought, “Blimey, a bit different from mine”.
I live on the NW coast of Australia, and my problem is that the terrain is dead flat and featureless, except for a long sand ridge a few kilometres out of town, which rises to the dizzy height of 33 meters. Conveniently for me there’s a 1.2km now-crumbling bitumen road which goes to the top, and I have been known to do multiple consecutive ascents: (24 on one mad occasion, when I was worried about ever having the stamina to make it to Orisson: I did).
The road is there because in the 1960’s NASA arrived here and built a big tracking station facility on top of the ridge - one of the three major ones across the globe. There used to be a big control centre, several big dishes, range-rate antennas, boresite towers, and even a power station. All that remains now are the concrete pads, and occasional buried stuff that reappears out of the red dust after half a century. The place is now closed off, but the puny fence around the site is non-existent in places so I can easily gain access, - but don’t tell anybody. It makes me sad every time I go up there: I think it should be a world heritage site. Our tracking station was crucial to putting Armstrong on the moon.
So, even in our present circumstances, I won’t need to worry about social-distancing on what I call NASA Hill. I never see a soul. And hopefully I can keep my knees functioning, until next year. I’ll post a couple of pictures. I’m proud of our contribution to world history.
Hi Chris. I'm up the Pacific Coast from you and fortunate, also, to have hills I can walk that are practically outside my front door. Longer hikes in the Cascades once the snow has receded from the trails. I did the CF in 2017 at age 75, and plan to celebrate # 80 on the CF in 2022. On the CF, a fellow Marine I hiked with on and off in 2017 was 86, so there's inspiration for us geezersI share your frustration. I am 80 and I don’t know how many more Caminos I have left so as this year is out then I have to keep working on next year. However, my philosophy is “A body in motion stays in motion”. So, I have to get out and hit them there hills. I am lucky to have hills and canyons outside my back gate with very few people.
ONEA bit of history that I never knew (lots of those) and certainly a way to stitch up the world, no matter how far apart we live!…
Thanks for that interesting bit of info, i agree, it needs to be a special site of interest as part of the moon landings history. Why dont you email the BBC and suggest Brian Cox takes a trip there when these travel restrictions are all over.I’m 75, and the prospect of having to wait another year before my next Camino means I have to take my fitness seriously, or things might start to go rapidly downhill.
As you can see, I’m a bicigrino, so a training ride several times a week is a must.
@ Davebug posted a picture today of his training area on the “View from your bedroom window” thread. I thought, “Blimey, a bit different from mine”.
I live on the NW coast of Australia, and my problem is that the terrain is dead flat and featureless, except for a long sand ridge a few kilometres out of town, which rises to the dizzy height of 33 meters. Conveniently for me there’s a 1.2km now-crumbling bitumen road which goes to the top, and I have been known to do multiple consecutive ascents: (24 on one mad occasion, when I was worried about ever having the stamina to make it to Orisson: I did).
The road is there because in the 1960’s NASA arrived here and built a big tracking station facility on top of the ridge - one of the three major ones across the globe. There used to be a big control centre, several big dishes, range-rate antennas, boresite towers, and even a power station. All that remains now are the concrete pads, and occasional buried stuff that reappears out of the red dust after half a century. The place is now closed off, but the puny fence around the site is non-existent in places so I can easily gain access, - but don’t tell anybody. It makes me sad every time I go up there: I think it should be a world heritage site. Our tracking station was crucial to putting Armstrong on the moon.
So, even in our present circumstances, I won’t need to worry about social-distancing on what I call NASA Hill. I never see a soul. And hopefully I can keep my knees functioning, until next year. I’ll post a couple of pictures. I’m proud of our contribution to world history.
Bang on @zrexer! I walk every day: 5 - 10 mile (Little Dog still copes), I dig the garden, weed & plant seed (all those squats and lunges keep the buttocks nice & tight I'm toldI don't stay fit just for Camino's, but for quality of life.
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