A few of my paragliding pictures taken in Switzerland and California. Click on the image to navigate. «read more»
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The key effects of endurance training are the increased muscle efficiency and extended heart range. The heart range is the difference between you minimal heart rate and anaerobic threshold. Training increases the heart volume, thereby lowering the minimal heart rate. It also increases muscle efficiency thereby increasing the anaerobic threshold from 65% up to 91% of the maximum heart rate. This is why trained people can maintain a higher pace longer. «read more» References to external sources about backpacking in the high Sierra Nevada (CA) «read more» A backpack hike to Green Lakes in Central Oregon. Pictures only. «read more» Interesting day hike starting in the forest, and climbing above timberline to join the Pacific Crest Trail in Goat Rocks Wilderness (WA). Maps and photographs. «read more» Escape the Yosemite crowds and enter mosquito country. Map only. «read more» Planned backpacking trip. Map only. «read more» This backpacking trip starts with a beautiful hike along Little Lakes Valley, then climbs over the rim, and enters the magnificent High Sierra Nevada. Map only. «read more» Portland (OR) is a great location to run. A summary of my running routes and maps can be found below. From April to October, I do my longer runs with Portland Marathon Clinic. During the winter one of the PMC coaches (Jim) leads a 12 min/mi group. We alternate our runs between North Portland, Willamette park/Sellwood and 23rd/waterfront. We all run the same pace, but distances vary widely from 8 mi up to 20 miles. «read more» “I have sometimes been asked what charm there can be in the higher levels of the Sierra, when the forests are gone and nothing remains that is not dead and forbidding, a bare crags and snow-fields. To such a question the surest answer would be an evening spent in such a camp as we had [...] «read more» |
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