Walking

So how does one prepare to walk 60 miles over the course of 3 days?

When I went to the orientation. One of the pieces of paper was a sheet with a training schedule for 24 weeks (FWIW, that's already 2 months shy of the suggested 8 month training schedule suggested by "the book"). I freaked out -- there weren't enough weeks until the event to do the schedule as laid out. The best I could manage would be 23 weeks and I'd have to hit the ground running and I was still trying to decide whether this was something I really thought I could do.

Then there was the how do I work, return to my old (prebroken toe and piled on pounds) workout schedule and add these walks? Not possible. Oh sure, I could wake up at 4am and drive to a training walk then drive the 23 miles to work and then hit the gym afterward -- I could, but I'd burn out in about two weeks. So what? Give up on the idea? Or maybe, get back to walking, build the mileage and do a lot of cross training (read back to the gym) too.

I'd already been tracking my mileage and gym time starting on the day I did the Making Strides walk (I walked the 2 miles to the event, did the event and walked home). When doing bike or cross trainer, I always select either a random interval programme or a hill for the challenge. The run down to date:
Week / Date Suggested
Walk
Miles		 My
Walk
Miles		 Bike
Miles		 Cross
trainer
Miles		 Total
Miles		 Notes
25 -- 21-27 Oct   14.6 32.4 3 55.1  
24 -- 28 Oct-3 Nov 12 11.8 32.4 2.3 62.7  
23 -- 4-10 Nov 11 20.7 16.2 3.45 40.35  
22 -- 11-17 Nov 14 9.2 59.4 0 71.2 Returned to weight training -- overdid inner thigh!
21 -- 18-24 Nov 15 13.4 21.6 0 35 Guests & a cold
20 -- 25 Nov-1 Dec 15 6.6 20.88 0 27.48Hard to walk when you've got a cold
19 -- 2-8 Dec 16 14.4 43.2 0 57.6  
18 -- 9-15 Dec 9 12.7 30.89 0 51.59 
17 -- 16-22 Dec 19 19.34 0 3.01 22.35Began breaking in new shoes
16 -- 23-29 Dec 22 28.09     28.09 
15 -- 30 Dec-5 Jan 24 9.8 21.6   31.4 
14 -- 6-12 Jan 27 13.33     13.33Began yoga
13 -- 13-19 Jan 30 23.11     23.11 
12 -- 20-26 Jan 16 20.46 21.6   42.06 
11 -- 27 Jan-2 Feb 33 25.31     25.31 
10 -- 3-9 Feb 34 31     31 
9 -- 10-16 Feb 34 27.61 21.6   49.21 
8 -- 17-23 Feb 40 10.227 14.4   24.627 
7 -- 24 Feb-2 Mar 43 6.02     6.02 
6 -- 3-9 Mar 19 18.26     18.26 
5 -- 10-16 Mar 47 24.71     24.71 
4 -- 17-23 Mar 45-50 7.2     7.2 
3 -- 24-30 Mar 30 6.37 64.83   71.19 
2 -- 31 Mar-6 Apr 16         
1 -- 7-14 Apr 34         
To date totals   381.97 389.2 11.76 818.93 

Training Walks

I'd love to do one or more of these but so far they are not fitting into my schedule. Yes, walking in a group is different than walking on your own. But I'm already a veteran of Taking Strides for Breast Cancer and the Liberty Walk/Run so I know about having to slow your pace because you're part of a mob. I also know about walking on pavement and negotiating my way in and out of slower moving pedestrians in my urban environment.

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