{"id":366,"date":"2014-04-07T09:53:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T09:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/?p=366"},"modified":"2014-04-07T13:55:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T13:55:56","slug":"prep-is-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"Prep is done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since last September I have been preparing for my hike. Back then I put together a <a title=\"plan\" href=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/PCTHikePrep.pdf\">plan<\/a> of hiking each day (except for Fridays) and doing this week after week. I started easy with low weight and low mileage and have built up over time adding 10% increase each week. I&#8217;ve injected recovery weeks after every 4 weeks where I reduced the weight and distance 30% to let my body heal. [Thanks Steve Sisson for teaching me about training plans.]\u00a0As a result over these past seven month I have hiked 1600+ miles. In addition each month I did a shakedown camp out at a local state park culminating with a multi-day desert shakedown at Big Bend in February. So am I ready? All I can say is that I&#8217;m now done with the prep. Yippee! And I know I can hike 20 miles with a 35 pound pack. And I can camp in a variety of weather conditions. So yes, I think I am.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140407-075239.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20140407-075239.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140407-075239.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garmin Forerunner 110 that I used to record all my prep hikes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since last September I have been preparing for my hike. Back then I put together a plan of hiking each day (except for Fridays) and doing this week after week. I started easy with low weight and low mileage and have built up over time adding 10% increase each week. I&#8217;ve injected recovery weeks after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/?p=366\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prep is done<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preparation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}