Status:PreparationTrekkingChilling
12
Mar
2012

Performance Diagnostics

Posted by Gregory Gerhardt
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When I started training a year ago I went to the Schulthess Klinik  to set my first benchmark: I had the heart rates and lactate levels tested at staged running speeds. Now, one year later, the day of truth has come. I went for the final test. It wasn't exactly what Haile Gebrsellassie would have scored but the average 6 hours of training per week have definitely lowered my average heart rates and lactate results.

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11
Mar
2012

Cross country Zurich

Posted by Gregory Gerhardt
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While my trek is getting seriously close I've started to increase the number of walks, fully packaged, round my home town, Zurich-Höngg. On working days it's usually late at night; on Saturdays I extend the range from 2 hours to 4 hours and walk all across the canton of Zurich - including places like Unterengstrigen, Oberengstrigen, Weiningen, Schlieren, Dietikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Zollikon ... you name them. The training has been a great opportunity to experience the greater Zurich area. 

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20
Feb
2012

One month to go

Posted by Gregory Gerhardt
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While the big adventure is approaching inescapably, training pressure has increased: Only one more month before I stop and go into pre-chill mode. The daily routine looks about like this: 1) Get up at 06.00 and eat myself through more food than ever before. I got to 78kg so far (from 75 kg); another two kilos I want to add by mid March. 2) Work throughout the day and enjoy the evenings with my family.

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19
Dec
2011

What I did so far

Posted by Gregory Gerhardt
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So far my preparation has happened on a rather opportunistic base (lunch breaks, weekends). I'll be ramping up in 2012, starting with two intense training weeks in January, mostly round Cape Town. What I did so far in a nutshell:

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