If you've ever been to the Grand Canyon, you know it's incredible beauty and size. My brother, brother-in-law and I will be doing the Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim hike sometime in November 2026 and this is my training journal. For the past couple of years, I have been an avid pickleball player and so this training is requiring that I put that on the back burner for awhile. That also means, I'm not in particularly good cardio shape coming into this. My history is as a runner - I picked up running sometime around 2009-2010, innumerable 5Ks/10Ks, a bunch of half-marathons and two full marathons. I was a cyclist for a couple of years in there as well - so endurance sports aren't foreign to me, but I'm curious to how my body will respond to this challenge. Our goal is to complete the R2R2R hike in one day, 42-some miles and over 11,000 feet of elevation gain.
4/6 - I guess this was the official start of training. Last night I played pickle for about 90 minutes (I have a regular Monday night game) and then afterwards I ran 2 miles at a relatively easy pace. Right at the beginning of the games there were a couple of points that tweaked my lower back and as I write this om 4/7, my lower back has been singing quite a bit this morning. Legs otherwise feel good - going to take it easy today and see if that doesn't help my back.
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