{"id":41,"date":"2013-09-06T13:20:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T13:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/?p=41"},"modified":"2013-09-06T13:51:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T13:51:58","slug":"week-1-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished my first week of training for my PCT hike. I bought my pack, loaded it with dead weight (the pack and two dense foam pillows for a total of ten pounds), and hiked around town\u00a0each morning on flats, hills and trails. So instead of running as I normally did in the past years I now hiked with my pack and will continue until I start the PCT. My plan is to increase each week the weight (up to 35 lbs.) and distance (up to 80 mi.) along with adding in camping, cooking, etc. I also plan on going to State parks (Colorado Bend &amp; Lost Maples) and National parks (Big Bend) over time to put it all together.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saturday &#8211; 10.3 mi &#8211; Lady Bird Lake Trail (flat)<\/li>\n<li>Sunday &#8211; 4.9 mi &#8211; Steiner Ranch Trail with &#8220;Crack of Dawn&#8221; Hiker meet-up (rocky)<\/li>\n<li>Monday &#8211; 4.4 mi &#8211; Wells Branch Trail (flat)<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday &#8211; 6.2 mi &#8211; 3 loops of Mt Bonnell (hills)<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday &#8211; 6.0 mi &#8211;\u00a0Wells Branch Trail (flat)<\/li>\n<li>Thursday &#8211; 7.5 mi &#8211; 3 loops of Ladera Norte (hills)<\/li>\n<li>Friday &#8211; off<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For a total of 39.3 miles and no problems adjusting so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished my first week of training for my PCT hike. I bought my pack, loaded it with dead weight (the pack and two dense foam pillows for a total of ten pounds), and hiked around town\u00a0each morning on flats, hills and trails. So instead of running as I normally did in the past &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/?p=41\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Week 1 Training<\/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-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preparation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","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=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}