One Bad Morning Isn't a Trend: What 2,000 Days of Oura Data Taught Me
A guest post. Her ring begged for a rest day and she felt fine. What close to 2,000 days of data taught her about trusting the trend over the daily number.
How to Train for Everest Base Camp in Your 50s (Without Getting Hurt)
Base Camp is not a fitness test, it is a decision test. Here is the exact way I get a 50-something professional ready, three markers at a time, without wrecking a knee to do it.
When the Objective Clouds the View
A guest post. Less than 100 meters from the summit of an Icelandic glacier when totality arrived, in cloud cover instead of clear sky. What almost reaching the exact target taught her about the difference between the objective and the reason behind it.
Working Out vs Training: What Changed When I Aimed at Everest Base Camp
A guest post. Working out improves your health. Training demands disciplined effort around a future commitment, and eleven months of it changed more than her fitness.
How Fit Do You Actually Need to Be for Everest Base Camp?
Less fit than you fear, and fit in a way your gym never measures. The real bar, and the one test that predicts your trip.
Everest Base Camp Over 50: Is It Safe, and How Do You Really Prepare?
Age changes how you prepare, not whether you can go. The real risks over 50, and the way to train around them.
What an Everest Base Camp Trek Really Costs (and Why the Cheapest One Is the Most Expensive)
From $1,200 local packages to luxury options. What the price buys, and the cost nobody quotes.
The 3 Numbers to Check Before You Book a Kilimanjaro Trek
Before you put money down on Kili, check three numbers. They predict how the trip actually goes, and every one of them is fixable with enough runway.
Why Your 20s Training Program Breaks Your 50s Body
The program that built you at 25 is quietly breaking you at 52. Same volume, different body. Here is what changes, and what to train instead.
Adventure-Fit vs Gym-Fit: Why the Guy Who Benches 315 Gasses Out on the Trail
Two different bodies. A trek only rewards one of them, and it is not the one you build under a barbell.
What Your Whoop and Oura Data Actually Say About Trek Readiness
Most people wear the device and ignore the signal. The four metrics that predict how you will hold up.
Will My Knees Survive the Descent? A Straight Answer for Trekkers Over 45
The descent, not the climb, is what wrecks knees. Whether yours will hold up, and how to train so they do.
From Strongman to Base Camp: What Carrying Heavy Things Taught Me About Altitude
Why a strongman and former intelligence officer coaches people up mountains, and what the trail taught him.
The Closing Window: Why Most 50-Year-Olds Wait Too Long (And Why It's Fixable)
The trip that keeps sliding to next year. The honest math on the window, and why starting is the whole game.