Comments for Snailwalkers

Comment on Pictures from Mt Odake and Mt Mitake by Claire Elhaggagi

Claire Elhaggagi — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:13:34 +0000

Fantastic photos!

Comment on Super Tights CW-X by Paul Woodgate

Paul Woodgate — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:29:13 +0000

A very persuasive argument, Mr Tightsman. I’ll tell you what – if you look as macho as Ryo Ishikawa in your tights when you are brave enough to wear them without trousers over the top, I wil conceed that you were right.

Comment on Super Tights CW-X by Paul

Paul — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:08:24 +0000

Great post Tights-san. You are right, I am jealous. The only professional trousers I can fit into these days are worn by clowns.

Comment on Oxfam 100K Trailwalker – Detailed Metrics by Paul

Paul — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:07:47 +0000

That’s a good question. These results are for Reza so I’m not able to speak for him, but for me, I recall that later on in the course, the “shock” of the ascents was starting to wear off – even though they were just as rugged. Especially CP7 onwards which were as insane as any climb I’ve ever done. Maybe going from desk-job to peak-climbing is more shocking ( ie, CP 1 and CP 2 ) than oh-look-another-peak ( in the later stages ). I’m not sure if the body can adapt that quickly, so maybe it is psychological rather than physical adaptation ? Or maybe we were just exhausted and the heart’s max possible rate simply got lower…

Comment on Oxfam 100K Trailwalker – Detailed Metrics by Colin Yarker

Colin Yarker — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:20:35 +0000

VERY interesting data …. thanks for sharing this.

-Colin

P.S. Is the falling max heart rate indicative of improving fitness as you go ?

Comment on Pub Quiz ! by Paul Woodgate

Paul Woodgate — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:57:13 +0000

Mrs Wooders runs this, she happens to be in your photo holding the mic!
I’ll activate the key-stroke logging on her Mac next week so we can get the quiz answers. Shh.

Comment on Snailwalkers training League by Paul

Paul — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:28:31 +0000

Snailwalkers posting league, I’d win that. Come on Simon and Tightsman, our adoring public (house) awaits your words of wisdom.

Comment on Snailwalkers training League by Paul W

Paul W — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:10:09 +0000

it only counts as training if at least one other snailwalker attends. surely thats obvious. Feel free to start your own league tables that you can win – Simon could start a league for ‘number of gore-tex garments adorned on a hike’. Arita-san maybe ‘number of poles used’ (reverse league) and for Paul M I suggest a ‘years since birth’ league.

Comment on Snailwalkers training League by Paul

Paul — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:36:57 +0000

And there was that time I almost ran for the bus

Comment on Snailwalkers training League by Arita

Arita — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:26:41 +0000

Please add my 100km weekly snowboarding as training as well!