How are things progressing this year? In keeping with the idea that you are only as good as the numbers you post, I'm up to 61,436' of elevation for the year and a modest 132 miles.
Added August 2019: Looking back 10 years later, I honestly can't think of anything more offensive or unhealthy to say about one's hiking, than the above statement. Thats was my OP in 2009. Hiking should never just be about the stats recorded.
January 31, 2023: Have at it.
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Sorry you seemed to take that so personally. I was merely attempting to steer the thread back to AEG and mileage based discussion. I guess you could say I was concerned about the potential for neglected pets. Well, and those angry readers. You know, the ones who say they don't like threads about AEG, but post in them all the same.
chumley wrote:
Off-topic posting is also a big problem, but the consequences don't include neglected pets. Just bored, angry, confused, and frustrated readers. And all that is easily remedied.
@Jim_H
Or a thread dedicated to people who like to stalk other people's elevation gained totals and miles for the year then discuss and compare like its a competition? ;)
friendofThundergod wrote:@Jim_H
Or a thread dedicated to people who like to stalk other people's elevation gained totals and miles for the year then discuss and compare like its a competition? ;)
Absolutely. How else to speculate wildly and make hiking a spectator sport? If I don't do it, who will? If I don't ask publicly if BobP is going for 1,000,000' this year, how will he know his massive gains are being watched? Am I to think that he is merely a wolf going on some biologically programmed "long walk" because he can't find a suitable mate in the Valley?
But I'm not sure which question that is the answer to.
But before this gets too far off-topic again, I truly am considering adding flights of stairs to my AEG counts. I climb 4 flights at least 3 times a day. Let's say that's 40-feet each. 120-feet a day, five days a week. Let's say 40 weeks a year, because I like to take plenty of days off. That's almost 25,000 feet in a year! That could launch me .00367% up the HAZ competition list!
I'm not sure what my spirit animal is, but I'm confident it has rabies.
So, you're indicating that you have no intentions for 1 million feet? Well, that is fine. Some people need to understand something: I am not the only person to wonder about this or ask the question I asked, I am the just the only one to post it in the forum. I happen to know at least one other hiker who is/was thinking the same thing I was, and in fact posed the question before I publicly noticed.
Jim_H wrote:I am not the only person to wonder about this or ask the question I asked, I am the just the only one to post it in the forum.
People like you and me perform an important public service: vocalizing things all people think, but normally have the couth to keep to themselves.
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46' 8" is my work stair climb AEG. ~Scott if you ever subject yourself to this BS, its 59' 6" for you~
So I've definitely been robbed of 20-25k AEG out of my annual stats. Just threw that in to keep the thread on topic.
I'm not sure what my spirit animal is, but I'm confident it has rabies.
I ended up doing about what I did last year. I had hoped to do more like 30,000', but go sick and that stopped. Oh well. I also had wanted to take it easy this month, but not because I had to do so. I'll hopefully add in a little from tomorrow. Maybe January will be my worst month of the year, at about 18,500'? That would be pretty good.
100 for January! BAM!
That's 3 of the last 4 months for me. :wlift:
Meanwhile, I think BobP has been doing laps up the stairs outside my building since 3:45am, and JimH is sitting at home hitting "refresh" on the stats page.
*This entire post is an exhibition of sarcasm.
I'm not sure what my spirit animal is, but I'm confident it has rabies.
Progress is very slow! Today, there were better times on the Ortega Peak hike... sub four hour loop, but the real progress should come with the last of the body fat cut. Down now to 185 from 215 last Fall... heading for 160# by end of March...?
Not going for enhanced cardio until this Fall... the 200,000'+ in April should not need much physical application; trick will be to just get out the door and keep walking, daily... every day... for the full month. Not sure I'll pull that off.
Real goal, if the year goes well: 25,000' day in November. x8 on Guadalupe Peak. That would make all this AEG stuff over and done with for me... at least until I turn 70!
Ageless Mind... Timeless Body... No Way! Use It and Lose It. Just the way it is...
I'm way down from where I thought I would be just by having "fun", or hiking purely for fun, as I more or less did in December, or opposed to October. I'm also way under where I want to be, or wanted to be. I thought, based on how I was doing on 12/31/2013, that I would be nearer to 40,000', by now, but I kept getting sick and then I did virtually no hiking on my 7 day trip. I'm actually out of shape, now, in both upper and lower body endurance and strength. I don't mind not hiking the planned CA hikes, but I don't want to stay like this. The best months of the year, March to June, are about to start!
I don't have plans like last year, or you, Mike. I did not do C2C and don't plan on that now(though I may revisit Anza-Borrega or the area near Yuma). I might consider laps on Guadalupe Peak, enough to get over 10,000' of AEG, since I've never done more than Catalina SP to Mt Lemmon and back, 2 years ago, but I don't really know. Mostly, I just want to get back into shape to do some of the long hikes I did in the fall, and a few new interesting ones. Not interested in any insane AEG or mileage months, or super big hikes like C2C. I sort of wish I had done that at the end of December, but what can you do.
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