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Tag: Hiking
Injuries & Recovery
As hard as we pushed ourselves from May 2018 until March 2020, no one would have been surprised if we had had injuries. But my recent injury was NOT the result of physical training for an endurance hike… but from a six-month hiking hiatus during which I wrote books. That’s correct. I was injured while…
Questions of 2021
Questions people have often asked us this year. Are you still hiking? Will you still hike the Appalachian Trail? What have you been doing in 2020/2021? When are you/Are you coming back to Dorcas Library? Here are answers: Yes. We are still hiking, albeit in somewhat reduced capacity. More on this in a later post.…
20191227 Training Update
We cannot believe how quickly time is passing… Less than 100 days until we begin our AT hike! Still so much to do. A point of clarification from an earlier blog. My childhood memory of the trail crossing a road near Weld was correct but the location was not. At Thanksgiving, my father pointed out…
20191101 About Our Walk
What do we intend to do? First, we intend to hike all 2200-ish miles in one year. That’s the definition of a thru-hike. We intend to carry our own packs, although that is not required. We intend to hike mostly Southbound [SOBO]. We are considering a flipflop hike, following one of two options: start in…
not psychotic break
not psychotic break but midlife walkabout for two i want to go on a walking retreat with you i want to lose the false masks the false stress the false problems i want to feel my body working harder than it’s ever done i want to challenge my body, my emotions, and my brain i…
Thoughts About Blogging
When we began this journey in April 2019, I began to make notes about our training hikes, about our physical-mental-emotional health concerns, about books and resources we were studying, and about equipment selections we were exploring. I called these notes “Essay Germs.” While my goal is to blog at least weekly, I have been more…