{"id":4366,"date":"2018-06-03T23:28:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T21:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=4366"},"modified":"2018-06-03T23:28:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T21:28:04","slug":"100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2018\/06\/03\/100\/","title":{"rendered":"100?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My walk the other week<\/a> took me through the village of Zuidschermer<\/a> near Alkmaar, where I walked past a sign for the “100 van Leeghwater”<\/a>, a 100km walk being put on for the second time this year:<\/p>\n

\"Sign<\/a><\/p>\n

I was four and a half hours\/25km into my walk at that point, feeling a bit tired and sore because my right heel had developed a blister very early. My first reaction to the sign was, “LOL no.” Walking a marathon was enough. I accidentally did a 50km walk<\/a> last year, and the longest walk I ever did was a 57km walk when I was still at school. A 100km walk would be double what I’ve done recently, it would require training and preparation, and a ton more podcasts than I usually accumulate in the course of a week.<\/p>\n

But the sign stuck with me. I looked at the website when I got back home, talked about it with Abi, with my parents when I was over with them last weekend, and with some friends in Edinburgh last week… and I’ve registered for it.<\/p>\n

Now I just need to figure out what my training regime will look like. There are plenty of resources online that tell you how to prepare for a marathon run; there seems to be far less information on how to get ready for a 100km walk.<\/p>\n

John<\/a> runs marathons, and one of his tips was to practice running (walking) on tired legs by doing intermediate distances on two consecutive days. With that in mind I plotted out a 20km loop around Zaandam. I did it clockwise yesterday, and then anti-clockwise this morning, in just over 3 hours. My recent long-distance walks have all been one-way trips, and I’ve taken public transport or been driven back home at the end of them. That’s fine for one-offs, but for training purposes loops will be a more efficient use of my time. I figure that if I increase my loop distance by 5km each week, I can build myself up to a 50km back-to-back weekend before the walk.<\/p>\n

That’s still only half<\/em> of a standard 4-day march at Nijmegen<\/a>, at which 47,000 people<\/em> are taking part this year. In terms of long-distance walking challenges, there are still plenty of frontiers left for me…if I make it through this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve registered for a 100km walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1773],"tags":[1781],"class_list":["post-4366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walks","tag-walking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4366"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4372,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions\/4372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}