Mt. Whitney Trail ~ Fall in 2012
Based on my original plan, I had planned to hike Mt. Whitney
last weekend. However there were many
activities for our kids during the weekend and I could not make it happen. Therefore, I won’t go hiking to Mt. Whitney
this year.
It is getting cold, but there might be still good condition
in October. However, there might be a
chance to get snowing anytime, actually it was snowing already… So people who still want to be there need to
prepare well for snowing and cold weather.
Regarding my training for this hiking, I am doing a training
plan for “full marathon”. Due to some
minor injury I stopped training a several weeks in early summer. However, the last several weeks, I am
getting recovered and it would be a good shape for this hiking. I was planning to be there till last
minutes.
As you can see my last a few posting about VO2max / Lactate
Threshold from Garmin Running device, the value shows my improvement last a few
weeks. I think it is a good idea to use
a full marathon plan for this long hiking.
It is probably better to run some hill route at least once or twice a
week to train muscles for ascending.
Just running on a flat route might not be enough for this hiking in my
opinion.
Lactate Threshold for Running last 6 mounths
VO2 max last 6 months
VO2max is recovered to 40 [ml/kg/min] (This year’s max was ‘43’). Lactate Threshold is 166bpm/around 6 minutes
/ km. As I mentioned in the previous
posting, the early part of this training plan is a little easy for me and value
was drop a little in the beginning.
However, it is getting enough intensity last a few weeks and my number
is getting improved. This data shows
probably 3 ~ 4 times a week with one intensive training and one long distance
(time) running would be a good plan for hiking.
I will continue this type of training to maintain my fitness
level for hiking next year.
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