A few things…
Date: 10th June 2011
Right, it’s finally spring here in Canmore! I’m almost afraid to say it too loudly, but I think it’s really happening. I was actually too warm rock climbing yesterday, a season first. I even whined about it a bit just to make sure the sensation of warmth was real and not just a dream. Now all the snow around here has to melt–normally the valleys and even lower passes are good to go by this time of year for running and riding, but lots of snow out there still, as I just saw on a drive into the mountains. I was up helping out a bit with the Tour Divide, which is a race from Banff, Alberta to Mexico. My cousin is racing in it, go Dylan, knew a few other uber-lungs lined up at the start. I saw the leaders go by after about three hours, they were going faster than I normally ride when I’m out for an hour or two. Pretty cool to see.
Climbing Training
I’m on a day-on, day off program for climbing right now. It’s about all my body can handle, and over the years I’ve found that I go harder on my training days when I know there’s a rest day coming, and I enjoy resting more when I feel like I’ve earned it. But I’ve dug a little over-training hole for myself; yesterday I was worthless, but the day was worthy so it was nice to be out. I’m off on a week-long guiding course starting tomorrow so the tendon rest will be nice; I often go really hard on a cycle with the knowledge that I’ll have a soft week or period following it, it seems to work well for me. With aerobic sports I can just cycle back the intensity and/or duration, but with climbing I have to beat myself up, recover, repeat, it’s just a different beast than anything else I do. But it sure is fun to be getting a little bit of rock fitness back. Compared to the current state of the sport I completely suck (but then again pretty much everyone does now compared to Adam Ondra!) Ondra has set the bar so high, a total revolution in difficulty level, the Sharma of the high-school scene. That kid is mind-blowing, the future, awesome, inspirational. Anyhow, I’m psyched to climb easier routes and step it down for a week, then get after it until the flying turns on around here for the summer.
And I was reminded by this photo of how fun climbing is, no matter it is that we climb! My daughter busting out the H (for horn) 4 move on the steel Moose.
More soon–gear issue coming up again, new stuff that I love…
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