Of the estimated 35,000 people that attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania every year, about half do not make it to the top. There are several reasons for this, but one of the primary blocks is people arriving to the mountain physically unprepared for what their bodies are about to endure. Polepole is a comprehensive long-distance mountain trek training manual for anyone looking to engage in one of the more defining moments of their life.
As you make your way through gradually intensifying workouts designed by fitness trainer Angela deJong to strengthen your body and increase your endurance, Erinne Sevigny Adachi offers her own Kilimanjaro story. Her journey starts not on the day her feet land on African soil but months earlier when they don sneakers and land on Angela’s treadmill for the first time. Her narrative offers insights into what it’s truly like to go from wheezing on a light jog to the best condition of her life in preparation for the most rewarding physical challenge she’s attempted yet.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2019.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 796.522
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781771603140 1771603135
- LCCN
- GV200
- LCCN Item number
- M46 2019eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- YDX
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (287 pages)
- Published in
- Victoria, British Columbia
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00240508 (OCoLC)1122743051 (CaOOCEL)457396
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Pole pole
- Transcribing agency
- YDX
Table of Contents
- Contents 10
- If I wasn’t going to make it, it would be for some other reason. 12
- Introducing Your Trainer: Angela DeJong 14
- How to Use this Program 16
- BEGINNER TRAINING PHASE 20
- 1889: Beginner Workout One 22
- Africa? Yes. Let’s go. 23
- 4:56: Beginner Workout Two 26
- With every workout, my body changed. 27
- 7/88: Beginner Workout Three 29
- Fuel Your Body: A Note on Nutrition 30
- I absorbed nutrition habits as if through osmosis. 34
- 5895: Beginner Workout Four 36
- Hiking at High Altitude 37
- We can always just stop if we need to. 39
- INTERMEDIATE TRAINING PHASE 42
- MACHAME: Intermediate Workout One 45
- I might have had one more round in me. (Definitely not ten.) 46
- UMBWE: Intermediate Workout Two 48
- Then we took some time to appreciate the view. 49
- MARANGU: Intermediate Workout Three 51
- Yes, somewhere there was a bear. 52
- SHIRA: Intermediate Workout Four 55
- Time to Start Packing! 56
- My husband and I are going to attempt to climb Kilimanjaro. 59
- RONGAI: Intermediate Workout Five 61
- You wait until after the climb to try Tanzanian food. 62
- LEMOSHO: Intermediate Workout Six 65
- I wondered what predictions the rest of the team made for us. 66
- ADVANCED TRAINING PHASE 70
- Crisis averted, it was time to get back to the business of training to climb a huge mountain. 73
- CHAGGA: Advanced Workout One 77
- Porters put our bags into large waterproof sacs and hurled them up onto their shoulders. 78
- MAASAI: Advanced Workout Two 81
- It’s the coffee. I promise. 82
- KITENGE: Advanced Workout Three 85
- Erinne, pushing polepole to the extreme! 86
- SHUKA: Advanced Workout Four 89
- Two natural stone pillars mark the entrance. 90
- MBEGE: Advanced Workout Five 93
- His body gave it away despite himself. 94
- CHAPATI: Advanced Workout Six 98
- Before we were ready, it was time to move again. 99
- UGALI: Advanced Workout Seven 104
- My toes took it especially hard. 105
- ACACIA: Advanced Workout Eight 108
- I wondered why I had yet to feel like I’d accomplished anything gr – Gah! 109
- It’s so much sweeter that they do it for themselves. 113
- Those boots took her father to the top of Kilimanjaro. 117
- THE WORKOUTS 118
- Acknowledgements 289
- Appendix A 286
