Training Schedule

Info and suggestions from Brother Chip Olsen from the Training Committee

Mileage and elevation by day of Priesthood Encampment Hike

Day	Base Elevation	Mileage	Elevation Climb	Elevation Decent
Monday	5581	5.6	2400	100
Tuesday	7848	8.2	1300	2200
Wednesday	6896	11.6	2200	5000
Thursday	4324	9.3	2600	1100
Friday	5843	8.6	1200	1000
Saturday	6066	6.7	900	900

Training serves many purposes.  Primary is to get my joints and muscles in shape for the event.  Secondary is to practice.  Practice hiking. Practice carrying a pack.  Practice using hiking poles.  Practice using my hiking boots.  Lots of things to practice.  One last thing of note, it is to test my hiking gear.  I have some old gear, and some new, and some in between.  I want to make sure that gear will work for the long hike.  So, I will take it out and use it on the practice hikes to see how it works.  If I need to make repairs, or replace non-working gear, I would rather be uncomfortable on a practice hike than on the long hike.

When developing a training plan I try to look at a few factors.  First is the total distance that will be covered in the hike(s).  Second is the elevation, and elevation climb.  Finally is the kind of gear required for the hike.  For this event our single day miles are not huge.  10 miles in a day is not a ton.  25 or more is, but 10 is a fairly low mileage day.  50 miles in a week is the bigger training target.  For those of you who are young and supple you can recover quickly, and will not have so many issues.  For people who are old like me, it is much harder.  My body does not recover quick enough to survive a long hike like this without a lot of training.

My plan tracks weekly miles to try and build up to about 80% of our total long hike miles.  These weekly miles should be hit at least a week before we start to give my body time to recover.  With this in mind, I have put together the following:

Week of Apr 4	8 Miles
Week of April 11	9 Miles
Week of April 18	10 Miles
Week of April 25	11 Miles
Week of May 2	13 Miles
Week of May 8	15 Miles
Week of May16	18 Miles
Week of May 23	23 Miles
Week of May 30	29 Miles
Week of June 6	36 Miles
Week of June 13	Less than 25 miles

For training hikes with the youth.  I would encourage all to attend the following training hikes.

May 7^th  7:30AM meet at the Ontario Stake Center.  6 mile hike at Malheur Butte.  We will hike along the road, and up the canal road.

May 14^th  7:30AM meet at the Fruitland building 8 mile hike around Mann’s Creek.

May 21^st   7:30AM meet at the New Plymouth building.  Three Bears, in the Boise Foothills.

May 28^th 7:30AM meet at the Fruitland building. Outside Council, ID.  At Heritage Mountain.  10 miles, several thousand elevation climb.

June 4^th       7:30AM meet at the New Plymouth building.  Zimmer Creek Loop (9 mile loop and 2200 elevation climb)

June 10^th and 11^th Details to follow.  Recommended for all boys.  McCall, Camp Morrisson to Blackwell Lake.  Overnight at Blackwell Lake, and back on Crestline trail.

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