Better…

For starters, don’t dry your socks with fabric softener–this makes them incredibly slippery in your boots, which sucks when standing on frontpoints… Figuring out why my heels were lifting so much and why my calfs were cramping so bad in the last session was positive, way better to figure that out now than during the climb! I was also low on calories last session I think, but a huge burger the night before along with some other food plus a concerted effort to get a whack of calories down my throat during the day. In the last week I’ve been sick, traveling, eating irregularly, it just hasn’t been that good. But it doesn’t take all that long to put the pieces back together if given some time and quality food (I don’t normally eat hamburgers, but the burger at Drake’s in Ridgway is the absolute best thing I’ve eaten in months, insane!). I’m also already much better adapted to the altitude–you wouldn’t think going to 8,5000 feet from 4,500 would make that big a difference, but it does when you’re going hard. Plus seeing more friends and just getting the mojo going is worth a lot, the energy is building.

I’m training today and Wednesday and then I’m done with that, it’s game time on Saturday at high noon.