Re: GPS for mountain walking

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from "AndyP" <AndyP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:

> > It seems to me that if you tire yourself out in a few hours on a bike
> > you must be putting more effort into it than you do for walking.

> Ofcourse, unless you can manage super speedy power walking techniques to get
> past 6mph then once you start putting any effort into walking it changes
> into running. When I first got a heart rate monitor to play with I noted
> some readings down for what I find a natural comfortable pace for different
> activities.

According to a test I did a winter or two back I am flat out at 4.8 mph
(half hour road walk).

> Resting heart rate 48 bpm
> Walking on the flat 90
> Biking on the flat (about 15mph) 135
> Running on the flat (about 7 min/mile) 170
> Walking uphill 125
> Biking uphill 160
> Running uphill 185

> That was on the road, biking up a stony and muddy hill usually seems harder
> than running up it.

I bought a heart rate monitor back in 2003 but gave up using it very
quickly as it worried me. I didn't record details such as those above
but a TR I wrote at the time does mention that the first time I used it
I managed 179 on a steep ascent at the beginning of a day out and that
subsequent steep sections all pushed the heart rate past 160. I now find
it ironic that at the time I was complaining about declining ability and
the impossibility of ever again doing even easy challenge walks like the
Three Peaks. Having knackered myself doing the Three Peaks last August I
have done almost nothing since and my fitness is at a new low.

ISTR I managed a slightly higher high when I deliberately set out to see
what I could manage walking up the road I live on (1 in 5 in places) but
I cannot recall what it was.

--
Roger Chapman so far this year nothing
.

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