Weight(y) matters I

[Maura Santangelo]

Bob,
I read that bit about boot weight in a book about walking the
Appalachian trail and the study was attributed to the US Army.


Did I understand you just had a bypass?  Best wishes to a great
recovery and no recurrence

Maura
On Wednesday, October 6, 2004, at 11:42  PM, Robert Spenger wrote:

> I have often heard the expression, “ a pound on your foot is like X
> pounds on your back,” where X can be 5, 8 or 10, depending on which
> hiking guru is expounding on the subject. Is there any real meaning to
> these numbers?

>  I am supposed to spend 30 minutes each
> day “in the zone,” i.e. keep my pulse rate between 112 and 126.
> (Unfortunately, this is not pre-camino conditioning, but cardiac
> post-op rehabilitation.)