Training or rather NOT training
How to train for an approximate 350 mile trek through the Scottish Highlands. First the trekker needs to begin with daily local walks around TOTALLY FLAT Stevens Point wearing the socks and boots that will be worn for the Real Thing. Use trekking poles always to help disperse the impact on hips, knees, ankles, keep the momentum going forward, and Never get Fat Sausage fingers 😀 Gradually add weight to a normal book bag size backpack. Art History was my choice of lugging around material. Once the book bulk and weight reached the limit of that backpack the items were transferred to a full size/luggage size pack with a waist belt (helps take weight off the shoulders). Keep walking. Training for this trek was thrown off kilter due to first deep snow and ice covered sidewalks. Then getting sick with some sort of something that was diagnosed as bronchitis/pneumonia but for insurance purposes was listed as - a cough. 3 weeks of none activity feelin...