It's a Green House

I touched briefly on my fitness build up and initial goals back  here .  This post is a more in depth training guidance for anyone planning to climb Kilimanjaro.  Obviously you may have a different fitness level than I did and you should take into account any health conditions or injuries etc. before taking on such a challenge – so this plan assumes you are reasonably healthy with no injuries, and you haven’t done anything like this before. Basically my thoughts on the challenge are that you do not need to be running ultra-marathons or be mega fit to make the summit, but the fitter you are the better time you will have and you need to be in good shape.  Having had time to think about my training and what I did right and what I could have done more of it’s good to write it all down, hopefully it will help someone! The top things I did to train were: Walking In the year or more leading up to the trek you should go on at least a few challenging hikes (at leas...