Last year I bought a (second hand) #fitbit Inspire3 Pulse Watch. Well, I just wanted to test a gadget that tells me my heart rate wehen I was doing #sports / #hiking in the #mountains / #cycling and #running etc.
It's really a nice gadget but I also learned that I do not REALLY need it. Maybe I'll sell it again - or just use it for SOME sports units. But I go back to my analoge watch again for tay to day.
I apologise if my timeline for the next week is filled with landscapes and scenes from the mountains of the Picos de Europa. I have only just been able to get the images off camera (I know, I'm a bit old school that way!).
The mountains here completely blew me away! Anyway, here's a sample from the week to come. Dramatic peaks, cloud inversions, narrow gorges and beautiful alpine meadows.
As I won't be able to compile the video the next day, I decided to just share the photos already. I played around a lot with foregrounds .. and honestly deleted most of them - but I also learned a lot.
We did this trail ... many years ago and we always wanted to revisit it. (of course I felt challenged to take better photos as well)
I hope you enjoy the photo as much as I did walking the trail.
I'm finding it a big psychological adjustment shifting to training for mountain #running from regular #TrailRunning. My weekly distances are way down, but elevation and intensity is up.
E.g. my "long" run yesterday was 8k, with 750m elevation gain. I need to stop thinking in terms of total distance and more in terms of quality training time. Specificity over distance.
So 45mins on a treadmill at 15% incline going 3km or so is more specific to the target event than a 10km tempo run in the same time. I know this "intellectually", I just need to shake the nagging feeling I need to do more (that way lies overtraining...)
It's also ironic that I made this shift because I love spending time in the #mountains, and the main change so far is spending less time on trails and more in the gym. Getting up to Wales again in a couple of weeks though...
For #MountainMonday: A spring rainstorm flows from the clouds to the mountains in British Columbia, Canada. Eagle Mountain and the Buntzen Lake area appear to be receiving the brunt of the rainfall while the sun breaks through the clouds to the west.
For #MountainMonday - The moon rises over Mount Blanshard from Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Canada.
I wasn't planning this, but apparently others were (back in 2008) as I recall photographers in small groups along the side of the road waiting for the moon to rise. I had no idea what that might be about until it came up over the mountain.
scramble just continues endlessly now. this used to be the easiest hike in the rockies.
now, boulders tossed together during the flood formed new mini waterfalls. challenging footing
Day 11 of #photOctober2023 and the themes are "from an altitude" and "inside out".
This is an inside room that's outside (part of a Nevis Range mountain bike course) at an altitude of around 650 metres, just up from the Aonoch Mor gondola station.
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40 years ago today: There was some steep, rocky scrambling down into the col between Mount Hayes and Cascade Mountain. Cascade was a visual feast.
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September 8, 1983: After Eisenhower, the trail descended into a col before another stiff climb up Mount Franklin, the first 5000-footer of the day. The sky had cleared very nicely by the time I reached this peak.
I just drove my partner through the Lindis Pass yesterday. My partner is from one of the biggest cities in the world, and grew up in HK. Very city girl. Big cities like that is something I want to experience but haven't been able to yet because of finance (it's hard being a broke student). Sometimes I feel very sad when she sends me pictures of taller buildings than I have ever seen in my life. Or big crowds. These things are things I aspire to see some day.
But I am proud to have been able to show her something really really special and relatively close to my home. God's own high country.