[pct-l] Training

[StoneDancer1 at aol.com (StoneDancer1@aol.com)]

A lot of good advice has been kindly given and well recieved.  As to  those 
who somehow seem to condition  too ittle and always start out in  the hold  
(not like me, of course, heh heh), despair not.
 
Roland Mueser, in his book, Long Distance Hiking: Lessons Learned From The  
Appalachian Trail  extensively questionaired 136 thruhikers in  1990-1991.
 
He found that in one month, those hikers who had started in poor shape  were 
hiking as fast and as long as those who who had pre-conditioned... that  
physical condition "was not the sin qua non for staying on the  trail."(p.31)
 
Time and again it has been shown that the will to endure, the will to  
succeed, is, in fact, the sin qua non for staying on the trail.
 
 
When it's hot, be hot.  When it's cold, be cold.
"No Way" Ray  Echols