Incline Training For Everest Base Camp

Incline training today

I was pleased with my thirty minutes walking and twenty minutes jogging, both on an incline of two followed by fifteen minutes of walking on an incline of six on the treadmill tonight. Hopefully it will please my personal trainer, disappointed I had failed to complete two fitness sessions over the three-day break. The 14-kilometre ride on my bike wasn’t enough.

Seven months out from the trek we both agreed my training should be a mid week session and two sessions over my three-day weekend. I am pretty happy that I managed the slow jog on an incline. Jogging was part of my training preparation for the 2013 Everest Base Camp trek. I built up to participating in three  Sri Chinmoy five kilometres runs; not bad for never have jogged in my life before. Strangely I am missing the jogging component so I have started tacking on few short runs to my treadmill walks.

I usually listen to my MP3 player while I am on the treadmill or jogging. Tonight rather than distract myself with music I used the time to draft this blog in my head.

Tip 1: I record my training progress on a calendar. There have been times over the last two years since trying to get and stay fit, where there have been gaps due illness or injury. It is good way to remind myself I can pick it up again.

Tip 2: Build the walking and incline training up very slowly. We live in a hilly area and have slowly been building more hills into our walks over the summer holidays. In a few months, we will get much more serious about the hill training.