Three days until over 225 best of the best Alberta Makers come together for one amazing holiday show! 🎅🏻🎄🎁
(Not to freak you out but Christmas is almost a month away 😱) Mark your calendars, we can't wait to see you!
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25% of all door proceeds will be donated to the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts 😁
Inca Trail. Thoughts (2/2). You should be prepared for everything on the trail. Pack a rain coat, shorts, tights/pants, short and long sleeve shirts, underwear and socks. Buy a shitty poncho once you’re here. Bring toilet paper and baby wipes. A charger to power any toys you have (phone for music, headlamp etc). If you’re ever curious when there is service on the trail (not much) and you have a Peru SIM card, just look at the porters. They flock like bees to honey when it clicks on. Be prepared for terrible smells in the squat toilets.
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What else can I say. Enjoy the suffer. Enjoy the views. Don’t rush the magic of these moments. There is something special about the air, the colours, the people you meet, the stories you here, and the sweat you leave on the trail. The trail wasn’t built in a day, but they moved forward with a burning desire to do more. So take the advice to heart...just skip the whole chopping off your neighbours head and putting in on a spear part.
Inca Trail. Thoughts (1/2). While this trail isn’t exactly easy, my experience tells me it is a good time for those folks with a solid base of fitness. In fact, if you’re not in the greatest of shape, with enough mental fortitude to suffer for long 10-12 hour days, I’d say it would be doable for a wide range of fitness levels. And plenty of people were out there suffering for a very long time, even being walked along by the arm. In reality, as Dave Mah said, this could be the best ‘worst experience’ of many peoples lives. Too many times I was asked how long ago I checked in. Don’t worry about me. Do you. Whatever that is.
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Since 2001 when they instituted rules for how many people can travel the trail, only 500 people a day can start. 200 actual travellers and 300 porters and guides. With February being closed, it means 168,500 people are on the trail each year, with 67,400 of those being travellers. So it’s not a rare trip, but it’s not common. If you want to go, secure your Inca pass early.
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For me, the trail was in perfect shape. That’s not to say there aren’t challenges. Many parts of the trail are Inca flat; always gaining and dropping elevation. It’s also a trail made of heavy rocks, which gets damp and slippery, and have lots of nooks to twist your ankle. Inca stairs also seem to be quite high between steps and tend to rise almost vertical at times. If there was a tough spot, it was catching your breath above 4,000 meters. Solution. Go slower.
😋1st workout of the week😋
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😥Since we were away over the long weekend and both of us decided to sleep in yesterday, this is our first time in this week😥
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💁♀️Our current program dictates a 4x per week frequency with an optional 5. Basic math means we will be at the gym for the rest of the week if we stick to the plan💁♀️
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🤗Although we fully plan to be in here weds, thurs, fri, sat, is it a huge deal if we miss a day🤗
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🔥For two people who have the habit of working out built in over years, not really, no🔥
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🤔If you are new to exercise and still find it challenging to make it in 2-3x a week for more than half a year, I would argue that making your workouts and being present is literally the most crucial part of you hitting your goals and being successful🤔
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😎Happy to answer any questions and even show you a few things at no initial cost to you!😎
Machu Picchu. Thoughts. The site is beautiful. I don’t how how it feels to walk in off the train, but when you drop in from the Inca Trail after spending three days hiking, it’s stunning. The site is full of eye-candy porn. Everywhere you look, from Inca doorways to the sun temple to those llamas everyone loves. The site is enormous. At the classic post card view plateau point, it’s easy to forget how big it is. From the terraces situated well below where any normal tourist would wander, to the sundial at the top. Once you start walking the grounds, it’s easy to get in your daily streps. You can spend a lot of time learning about the intricacies of this lost city. In preparation for the trip to Peru, I picked up Turn Right at Machu Picchu on Audible. Not only is it a great book, but it really taught me a lot, and I felt totally prepared to walk the site. No part of me left feeling disappointed. It was worth every step.
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