[pct-l] Foot, ankle, leg pain, shin splints, etc.

[Yoshihiro Murakami]

Dear Dan

I am sorry. My post of passive walking robot may be done two or three years
ago. After that, I searched the articles of walking on the slope. There are
too many papers to read for me. Therefore I cited a recent representative
article in my book.

The abstract was cited here.

https://sites.google.com/site/completewalker/backpacking-memo/2-buku-zhuang-zhi/walking-at-the-slope

Roughly speaking, the energy consumption became double on  the 5% uphill,
2.7 times on the 10% uphill condition.

I have only said the huge upper muscles are not needed to walking.  The
professor who was specialized in long distance running frequently said to
me " Now, the marathon season began, I must reduce my arm muscles".

My handbook  will be published in April or May. This was completely written
in Japanese, because of my English ability. ( I have translated the preface
into English. ) I am ready to distribute my manuscript ( PDF and LaTeX
format ) to anyone of  PCT-L , when it was published. Google translator may
be some help.

Some of the ideas were accumulated in this page ( very incomplete form)
https://sites.google.com/site/completewalker/backpacking-memo

I am not a PCT hiker nor an ultralight hiker. Therefore, I write freely and
enjoyed writing book very much. It was my intellectual exploration of
hiking world.





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Sincerely
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Hiro    ( Yoshihiro Murakami  村上宣寛 )
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Backpacking since 1980 in Japan, A foreign member of PCTA
JMT, 2009, 2010, 2011(half), 2012
Handbook of Hiking will be published in 2013
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