1000 Steps.
Your old friend The Student is in the midst of a healthkick at the moment, as free time allows me to try and get a fit before uni fires back into life and eats up all my time.
A well known, and rather steep, walking track out my way is the '1000 steps' - a walking track the works its way up into the forest. A few mates, and myself have been doing this track two or three times a week for the past few weeks.
I am by no means a fit person, but I think it's probably not cool when i am stuffed after about ten steps. Regardless, my unwavering desire to actualy subject myself to the torture, sometimes at 7am, is testament to sort of thing that goes on during January - the month of nothing.
On your way up, you pass people on their way down. They greet you with an empathetic look on their face as they pass you, aware of the build up of lactic acid in your thighs and calves as you climb step after step, and the vague 'why the fuck am I doing this?' thoughts in your head.
The Great Outdoors website chooses to highlight a more unusual feature of the track:
Kokoda Track Memorial Walk
Upper Ferntree Gully, Dandenong Ranges VIC
Located in the Dandenong Ranges, a 40 minute drive north east of Melbourne, this is a one to two hour uphill walk of medium difficulty which takes you through the State Park. The walk incorporates 1000 steps and has 13 commemorative plagues along the way.
Heathen joggers be warned.
A well known, and rather steep, walking track out my way is the '1000 steps' - a walking track the works its way up into the forest. A few mates, and myself have been doing this track two or three times a week for the past few weeks.
I am by no means a fit person, but I think it's probably not cool when i am stuffed after about ten steps. Regardless, my unwavering desire to actualy subject myself to the torture, sometimes at 7am, is testament to sort of thing that goes on during January - the month of nothing.
On your way up, you pass people on their way down. They greet you with an empathetic look on their face as they pass you, aware of the build up of lactic acid in your thighs and calves as you climb step after step, and the vague 'why the fuck am I doing this?' thoughts in your head.
The Great Outdoors website chooses to highlight a more unusual feature of the track:
Kokoda Track Memorial Walk
Upper Ferntree Gully, Dandenong Ranges VIC
Located in the Dandenong Ranges, a 40 minute drive north east of Melbourne, this is a one to two hour uphill walk of medium difficulty which takes you through the State Park. The walk incorporates 1000 steps and has 13 commemorative plagues along the way.
Heathen joggers be warned.
posted by The Student at 6:29 PM
5 Comments:
You'll be wooing the ladeez with your buns of steel in no time.
Why do we do this?
It hurts so much...
I do it for the CALVES OF STEEL!
Can I just mention that I too, have noticed how terrible my spelling is in this post.
Noted.
Yehh. I did the trail when I was in year 6 and thought it was great. I have been hopeing to go there as soon as I can get my uncle off his BUM!!
Haha. Thanks.
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