A man who went on a hike and never stopped
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A man who went on a hike and never stopped
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Re: A man who went on a hike and never stopped
#2I find it interesting that the author repeatedly emphasizes the toenail removal. For ultramarathon runners, this is not particularly unusual (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/heal...).
Re: A man who went on a hike and never stopped
#3I find it interesting that the author repeatedly emphasizes the toenail removal. For ultramarathon runners, this is not particularly unusual ( https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/heal... ).
My gut reaction was that it's not so different from swimmers shaving their entire bodies for increased speed and mobility in the water.
Re: A man who went on a hike and never stopped
#4I find it interesting that the author repeatedly emphasizes the toenail removal. For ultramarathon runners, this is not particularly unusual ( https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/heal... ).
Toenails are a pain for runners. Do they have any purpose with shoes? I dont think so...
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#5"He also held a dogged belief in personal freedom, including the freedom to pollute the atmosphere with fossil fuels."
Didn't see that coming.
Re: A man who went on a hike and never stopped
#6I find it interesting that the author repeatedly emphasizes the toenail removal. For ultramarathon runners, this is not particularly unusual ( https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/heal... ).
My gut reaction was that it's not so different from swimmers shaving their entire bodies for increased speed and mobility in the water.
It is probably more than that. I have health issues that tend to negatively impact nail growth. In my youth, my nails grew slowly and tended to be paper thin. Keeping them trimmed and short was not very challenging.
After getting a proper diagnosis in my mid thirties, I have gotten steadily healthier since then. Living without a car and doing a LOT of walking has played a significant role in my improved health.
One unexpected result: My feet have better circulation, so my toenails grow faster and are thicker than they used to be. Keeping them adequately trimmed has become more challenging. This fact helps foster toenail injuries because overly long nails get caught on stuff and break more than they used to.
I can readily see that getting them removed would just make more sense than having them constantly injured if you are an ultra marathoner. I think walking or running a lot actively creates conflict for toenails, in part by causing them to grow faster and then exposing them to lots of opportunities to get banged up and what not.
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#7"He also held a dogged belief in personal freedom, including the freedom to pollute the atmosphere with fossil fuels." Didn't see that coming.
Yes, that was a little bit of a surprise.
"Each object a person carries represents a particular fear: of injury, of discomfort, of boredom, of attack. The “last vestige” of fear that even the most minimalist hikers have trouble shedding, he said, was starvation. As a result, most people ended up carrying “way the hell too much food”. He did not even carry so much as an emergency candy bar."
Given this minimalist orientation, the hassle and support systems needed for mechanised transport seem incongruous. Interesting article.
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#8"He also held a dogged belief in personal freedom, including the freedom to pollute the atmosphere with fossil fuels." Didn't see that coming.
I suspect it might have been taken out of context. The tone of Eb's reply made it sound like the reporter was perhaps trying to put words into his mouth to get some evocative quote about conservation or something, and instead got the exasperated response "If I want to buy an airplane and fill it full of a thousand gallons of fifty-dollar-a-gallon fuel, and I got the money to do it, goddamn it, leave me alone!"
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#9As we walked, Eberhart recounted his travels thus far. He had begun 46 days earlier at the southern terminus of the Continental Divide trail. From there, he headed east, through the blackened badlands of New Mexico, through the gateway city of El Paso, and on to an endless spread of dry dun plains. The traffic consisted almost entirely of semi-trailer trucks surging past every 10 seconds at speeds of a 100 miles per hour (sic). He had learned to take shallow breaths through his nose, so as to not inhale their fumes. The sound was meteoric.
Where exactly is this highway where trucks do 100 MPH on a regular basis? Most of them are governed to 65+epsilon MPH at double precision, as anyone who's had to wait for them to pass each other can attest.
Even on the 85 MPH-posted roads in Texas, a large truck doing 100 MPH is going to attract both the attention and the interest of the state police.
Re: A man who went on a hike and never stopped
#10As we walked, Eberhart recounted his travels thus far. He had begun 46 days earlier at the southern terminus of the Continental Divide trail. From there, he headed east, through the blackened badlands of New Mexico, through the gateway city of El Paso, and on to an endless spread of dry dun plains. The traffic consisted almost entirely of semi-trailer trucks surging past every 10 seconds at speeds of a 100 miles per…
I'm guessing it's 100 km/h and got mangled when crossing the Atlantic.