Author Archives: Michael Brookshire

    Jurgen Klopp Coach.  Motivator.  Snood aficionado.  My man crush   What I bought https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GBTLK41/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Have you ever come to that point in your life where you felt like everything you worked for and thought it was going to be came to screeching stop?  Where you just thought to yourself “I just don’t know that I can go any further”?  I’m confident we have all had these moments.  Some ofContinue reading “The Dawn Wall”

  Here is the link to my new calf support. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07477ZRX2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1  

I started doing a lot of reading about footwear, and socks, and something amazing I don’t know how I hadn’t heard of before called sock liners.  They are gods gift to hiking OMG.  What learned pretty quickly from seasoned AT hikers is that boots like the ones I had are old school and don’t reallyContinue reading “The Mighty Boot – Part 2”

Alright, so this all may seem a little geeky but the gear I’ll be using on these trips is a big deal and figuring out the right stuff for the right season at the right weight can be overwhelming.  Its part of the hiking culture now and the more I’m learning the more I’m findingContinue reading “The Mighty Boot – Part 1”

I broke down and stepped on the scale.  Horror.  Disbelief.  Worse than I wanted to believe that it could be.  So much further to go than anticipated.  This struggle is real. Life is difficult.  Life has very difficult lately.  I have always used food for comfort and a crutch.  Recently, it hasn’t been the foodContinue reading “The Struggle is Real”

 

I decided I needed to start checking in on some real-life resources to figure out what I’m going to need to do to accomplish this.  I did a quick Amazon search and found a few books, but not a ton.  Most have been written by thru hikers and few are fictional.  There are quite aContinue reading “Laying the Groundwork”