Training for alpine hunting 2024

[User00047]

Just do interval training. I was always a fastish runner more sprinter than long endurance. Just add uphill and run, then walk, then run again.

If you can I would try and get to the mountains for a few days before you hunt. Do some walks and a couple of runs. It does take a few days to get used to altitude.

And do yourself a favour. Do note a thermal imaging device. If your guide has one, have a close look at it and then drop it so it doesn’t work.

When hunting you will now have to stop regularly and glass properly. A young guide with a thermal will stop, do a quick scan and then carry on. Those guys are acclimatised and used to the altitude. You are not. Glassing stops allow you to recover and pace yourself. A sharp knife to their achilles can also slow them down a little, but that’s not very friendly.

I can relate, I could run a lot faster than I do, but I have been advised to keep my pulse rate at 150 max, but I do at times go to 160 ish, the problem I have by running slower I start to get 'niggles' especially in my achilles tendon. Damned if you do damned if you don't comes to mind.

Anyway, well done you

I have never measured my heart rate during exercise so I don’t know what it is or what it should be. Right now I’m sitting down and it’s about 60bpm so that means that I’m still alive that’s the main thing!
I was made for the 400m. Obviously I don’t run at that pace for long but if I try to jog I feel like I’m bouncing up and down too much and not going forward enough!
I’d rather walk for a bit and then run for a bit I think. Seems like I can do a couple of miles at a good pace with small hills and then walk for a bit and then do it again.
Hopefully we’ll have some dry weather next week and then the muddy coastal path (thanks to the continuous streams of bobble hatted, campervan driving, anorak wearing, twin walking-pole wielding Emmets) can start to dry up enough for a bit of off roading.

 

[WalkedUp]

Less than six months’ use and mine fell apart, the Goretex failed after 6 weeks… it can’t do much when your toes are sticking out!

The March 2024 Salomon running shoes have not faired well at all!