How can I train so that I can hike fast enough to gain 2,000

>>914664

For run training they usually suggest that running at longer distances helps improve speed.

Also, just get gud?

Keep traveling 1,400 ft/hr
Gradually you will be capable of handling more. Just like practicing or training for anything else, just keep doing it.

>hiking as fast as possible
>watching feet all the time
>missing da beauty

Run Forest.

>>914664
Hiit works incredibly well. See the 4 hour body by Tim Ferris for details. Or Google

>>914782
This do HIIT and increase VO2 max.

What is considered a good vertical ascent rate anyway?

>>915325
1,000 ft/hr for fit hikers. Most people off the street could do 500-700. Sustaining (i.e. not doing it for a 30 min burst) more than 1,800 ft/hr is really fast.

>>914664
Become young Reinhold Messner. Dude was able to run 3300ft in 35 minutes.

In all seriousness, a combination HIIT and LISS to increase both endurance and VO2 max.

>>915699
>TFW you can do 3600 ft/hr running or 1,800ft/hr sustained
When I think about it like that it makes me feel pretty good, thanks anon.

>>916131
me, too anon, but I'm not extremely fit. I think its just a mental thing you get used to after enough ascends

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This thread doesn't make sense. Where I live the surrounding mountains go from sea level to around 4000 feet. Some peaks the trails zig zag all over and it takes a long time to get to the top and some trails go almost straight up and I can be there in a couple of hours, like this one.