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cupid_stunt said:
Oh Stan, believe me are. I've always drunk well over the recommended levels, but kept very fit & healthy, I am older than you and yet up to a year ago I even had a a decent six-pack, not many guys in their mid 50s can claim that. Even then I knew I was drinking too much.

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Shit happened a year ago, well 3 loads of different shit happened, and I started drinking more, when my plan had been to cut down, slowly it's built-up, I am now almost at your level. I still function & I still enjoy life, but I recognise I am drinking way too much, that whilst I am still fairly fit & healthy at the moment, if I continue on this path, I am storing up problems. Major problems.

That's why I am seeking help & treatment to 're-set' myself to a more reasonable level of consumption, I seriously suggest you consider doing the same.

Drinking that amount, and claiming it's not a problem, is just kidding yourself.
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you are iggy pop and i claim my $5
 
cupid_stunt said:
Oh Stan, believe me are. I've always drunk well over the recommended levels, but kept very fit & healthy, I am older than you and yet up to a year ago I even had a a decent six-pack, not many guys in their mid 50s can claim that. Even then I knew I was drinking too much.

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Shit happened a year ago, well 3 loads of different shit happened, and I started drinking more, when my plan had been to cut down, slowly it's built-up, I am now almost at your level. I still function & I still enjoy life, but I recognise I am drinking way too much, that whilst I am still fairly fit & healthy at the moment, if I continue on this path, I am storing up problems. Major problems.

That's why I am seeking help & treatment to 're-set' myself to a more reasonable level of consumption, I seriously suggest you consider doing the same.

Drinking that amount, and claiming it's not a problem, is just kidding yourself.
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Respect to you.

Sorry. I am not with you on this. I have no concerns with my level of drinking whilst living the lifestyle I do. I will cut back for when I am not hiking so much. I can do that easily.

Hey, if I make it to 80, then I will probably eat my words, but how many of us make it to 80 anyway?
 
Stanley Edwards said:
Respect to you.

Sorry. I am not with you on this. I have no concerns with my level of drinking whilst living the lifestyle I do. I will cut back for when I am not hiking so much. I can do that easily.

Hey, if I make it to 80, then I will probably eat my words, but how many of us make it to 80 anyway?
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let's just see if you make 55 first
 
Stanley Edwards said:
Rubbish. Total fucking rubbish.

50KM a day is piss easy regardless. Tiring, but easily done.

I eat extremely healthily. My description of meals on this thread are probably much more nutritional and beneficial than anything you have eaten during the past year. It is all fresh, well balanced and full of energy and protein.

At a steady pace of 6KM/hour.

Leave at 7AM. Walk for 3 hours. 18KM done. Rest for 30 minutes to an hour, walk another 3 hours. 36KM done. Rest again. Eat a little. Walk another 3 hours. 54KM done. You arrive at your destination well before sunset. Plenty of time to eat healthily, sort yourself and get a thorough nights sleep to start again the next day.

This is leisurely hiking. It is no big deal. Once you are in the routine, it really is a very easy day.
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This is just fantasy. I've done lots of long distance walking. I don't doubt that it's possible to walk 50km in a day, but not repeatedly, with a 25kg backpack, and manage to gather enough calories to eat on the way. To say it's 'piss easy' just demonstrates that you haven't really done it. No-one who had really walked 50km with a 25kg backpack would call it 'piss easy'.
 
lazythursday said:
This is just fantasy. I've done lots of long distance walking. I don't doubt that it's possible to walk 50km in a day, but not repeatedly, with a 25km backpack, and manage to gather enough calories to eat on the way. To say it's 'piss easy' just demonstrates that you haven't really done it. No-one who had really walked 50km with a 25kg backpack would call it 'piss easy'.
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Fuck sakes. What is there not to believe?

I do it regularly, and it is easy.

You maybe an occasional hiker, but I do it day in day out most days. I have walked forever. Even as a teenager a 24 Mile round trip to the nearest town was just a stroll.
 
lazythursday said:
This is just fantasy. I've done lots of long distance walking. I don't doubt that it's possible to walk 50km in a day, but not repeatedly, with a 25km backpack, and manage to gather enough calories to eat on the way. To say it's 'piss easy' just demonstrates that you haven't really done it. No-one who had really walked 50km with a 25kg backpack would call it 'piss easy'.
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the american rangers do something like a 10 mile hike once a week and 20 miles every few months. and they're superfit.

there's no way even soldiers would do a forced march of 30 miles a day for a fucking week or whatnot, they'd be fucked after a couple of days lugging 50+lb on their back.
 
Pickman's model said:
the american rangers do something like a 10 mile hike once a week and 20 miles every few months. and they're superfit.

there's no way even soldiers would do a forced march of 30 miles a day for a fucking week or whatnot, they'd be fucked after a couple of days lugging 50+lb on their back.
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when loaded on methamphetamine, it is entirely possible. but you die after a week
 
not-bono-ever said:
is this a true, complete and accurate representation of your travels to the Ukraine ?

Once you confirm this, we can move on to the evidence
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It is from memory of something almost Eight years past.

You go ahead and spend all your pathetic time nit picking if you like. I'm quite happy in the knowledge I walked it.
 
Stanley Edwards said:
https://www.quora.com/How-far-can-a...ld-walk-and-also-an-average-person-could-walk

Just for the idiots.
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That link doesn't really say anything other than 30 miles per day is perfectly possible. I agree. My issue is with the extra weight and your claim to be doing it day after day as the vast majority of people, even the young and very fit, would simply not be able to keep up that pace. I walk everywhere, and in very hilly terrain, and am not an 'occasional' walker but I know that a 50km hike would leave me shattered the day after. Perhaps you have the right genes, and really you should be running ultramarathons, an endurance machine... but given the pasting you are giving your body with alcohol I fear even genetic advantage wouldn't enable you to walk these distances day after day.
 
lazythursday said:
This is just fantasy. I've done lots of long distance walking. I don't doubt that it's possible to walk 50km in a day, but not repeatedly, with a 25kg backpack, and manage to gather enough calories to eat on the way. To say it's 'piss easy' just demonstrates that you haven't really done it. No-one who had really walked 50km with a 25kg backpack would call it 'piss easy'.
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A few days ago I am sure he posted he was doing 25km, around 15 miles, a day, and I thought well fair enough, at the height of my fitness a couple of years ago, 20 miles daily was easy, 25 miles hard going.

I was fitter & healthier than Stan, eating 3 decent meals a day, drinking nothing like he is, I wasn't carrying a heavy load and I didn't have a dodgy fucking foot, nor boost in a blog post that 'I move as slowly as possible'!

Sorry, Stan, I call bullshit on 50km / 30 miles a day.
 
lazythursday said:
That link doesn't really say anything other than 30 miles per day is perfectly possible. I agree. My issue is with the extra weight and your claim to be doing it day after day as the vast majority of people, even the young and very fit, would simply not be able to keep up that pace. I walk everywhere, and in very hilly terrain, and am not an 'occasional' walker but I know that a 50km hike would leave me shattered the day after. Perhaps you have the right genes, and really you should be running ultramarathons, an endurance machine... but given the pasting you are giving your body with alcohol I fear even genetic advantage wouldn't enable you to walk these distances day after day.
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I wouldn't want to do more than 3 days in a row of 50KM.

The first time I walked 50KM in a day I had no option. The next water stop was all I was interested in. That was walking Via de la Plata about 9 years ago. I was shattered the next day, but happy I had achieved it, and knew I could again. Since then, I have regularly covered such distances day after day for upto 5 days, but 3 days is preferable.

Your food (and rest) the day before makes a huge difference. I am missing pasta on this trip. It is fucking brilliant hiking food. A bowl of pasta with nutritional stuff before you go to sleep leaves you ready to take on anything the next day. I wouldn't have to take anything other than water (and beer obviously) through a long 10 hour hike in the day after a big bowl of pasta the night before.

I think my average pace is about 5KM/hour when all I am doing is hiking. Sometimes, that means head down staring at the ground and just counting steps to get up hills. Much of it is mental energy as much as physical. Beer helps for this.
 
cupid_stunt said:
A few days ago I am sure he posted he was doing 25km, around 15 miles, a day, and I thought well fair enough, at the height of my fitness a couple of years ago, 20 miles daily was easy, 25 miles hard going.

I was fitter & healthier than Stan, eating 3 decent meals a day, drinking nothing like he is, I wasn't carrying a heavy load and I didn't have a dodgy fucking foot, nor boost in a blog post that 'I move as slowly as possible'!

Sorry, Stan, I call bullshit on 50km / 30 miles a day.
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Come fucking walk with me then. Any of you. Come and join me.
 
And read the link I posted to. I am not the only person doing this. And, despite drinking and smoking, I am actually very fit and strong. Or, at least my legs are. The rest of my body might be fucked, but my legs are powerful as fuck.
 
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Stanley Edwards said:
This is no S.A.S. survival course. It ain't even Ray Mears. It is a very relaxing, therapeutic, gentle hike. I'm not going to do anymore than 25KM a day, and all the resources I need are right here..
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Stanley Edwards said:
Fuck off with the immature comments on my blog. That was just Five days of less than 40KM/day. That is about 8 Hours of hiking a day. With rest each 3 Hours it is a piece of piss even with a dodgy foot. You leave at sunrise (7AM), arrive at your destination by 6PM comfortably.
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40 KM/day = 11 hours with breaks.

Now it's 50 KM/day, with breaks that's over 14 hours! :eek:
 
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