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A decent walk for a 59 year old.

Whilst rummaging around my blog’s history, I discovered my walk from Lake Geneva to Nice across the Alps, which I did in my 59th year. At my current age of 76 it would be nice to think I could still do it but alas, looking at the spreadsheet of that walk, I don’t think so!

Especially since 5 months previous I had walked  431km along The Pennine Way!

GR5 Data from Memory Map
Date Place Ascent (m) Descent (m) Distance (km) Time  Av.Gradient
02/09/06 Saint Gingolph
03/09/06 La Chapelle 1929 1306 14.9 05:53 22%
04/09/06 De Chesery 1750 764 17.5 06:04 14%
05/09/06 Samoen 500 1700 19.8 11%
06/09/06 Les Gets
07/09/06 Moéde Anterne 1894 620 18.4 06:28 14%
08/09/06 Les Houches 1043 2020 14.7 04:23 21%
09/09/06 Chalet Nant Borrant 1447 962 19.3 05:52 12%
10/09/06 Chalet de la Balme 2193 1683 23.4 10:40 17%
11/09/06 Refuge de Rosuel 1369 1801 21.8 09:11 15%
12/09/06 Val D’Isére 1401 1149 21.3 08:04 12%
13/09/06 Lanslevillard 1361 1732 29.3 10:26 11%
14/09/06 Modane 1005 1409 28.5 09:09 8%
15/09/06 Refuge étroite 1558 830 16.2 06:53 15%
16/09/06 Montgenévre 1800 1741 27.3 10:48 13%
17/09/06 Chateau Queyras 2012 2462 33.6 13:30 13%
18/09/06 Ceillac 1097 821 12.5 05:26 15%
19/09/06 Fouillouze 1703 1474 21.9 09:13 15%
20/09/06 Bousieyas 2201 2211 30.9 12:54 14%
21/09/06 Auron 1652 1915 20.9 09:42 17%
22/09/06 Roure 2299 2813 32.4 14:21 16%
23/09/06 Dalmas-Valdeblore 1321 1105 13.8 06:32 18%
24/09/06 Utelle 1737 2228 23.4 10:48 17%
25/09/06 Nice 1640 2438 32.9 10:19 12%
34912 35184 494.7
Number of Everests 3.9

 

A Morning view

The mornings here in Ban ThaRuea are so perfect. A cool breeze from the west that’s come over the Myanmar mountains and the lake with a air temperature of 22°C at 8am . OK we have a predicted high of 38°C at 2pm which means I will be ready for my cool swim in the lake at 5pm

What a great place to live at 76.5 years old 🙂

Here is the view from our balcony table.

Balcony view looking west to the National Park

Shabushi lunch

Shabushi offers an unlimited lunch in Phetchaburi 😀

Lunch at Shabushi

The gyrosco.pe app approves, its camera driven AI says

Lunch at Shabushi
Non stop food conveyor

Not bad for ฿426 (£9.43) per person we have 1hr 30min before a surcharge is added.

Gyroscope

I’ve restarted using the gyrosco.pe app on the IPhone. I thought I would check how long it thought I would live 🙂

Not bad for a 76 year old!

I’ve found it rather buggy and obviously it’s been designed by a 30 year old with very small fonts & low contrast text!

My favourite thing is the AI calculations from my food photos

A days food intake

Will continue with it for a while and see if anything happens to my weight so far not so good 🙁

Last weeks weight chart from the Weight Diary iphone app