No posts for awhile I haven’t been doing much running wise been busy with work and feeling a little under the weather. I have been hitting the climbing gym weekly for last few months though and have been progressing quite rapidly. I feel great in that respect very strong and “solid”, one thing runners become is weak their legs and cardio are strong but overall we are a feeble breed, this was very evident when I first hit the gym I was quite pathetic. I used to be very strong, I weight trained for hockey, football and track and field but the last 4 years I pretty much stopped that. Now that I am hitting the climbing gym I realize how much I miss that “strong feeling” I also realize how truly addicting climbing is. I can’t wait to return to the gym each week to finish “projects” I couldn’t do from the previous session. I also have a friendly competition with a friend who has been climbing for several years on who can do a 5.13 first (he is close he can climb 5.12’s) I am not. My advantage over him is I have more natural strength he has more climbing experience and climbing specific strength but each time I go to the gym things click and I get stronger should be interesting.
So the Epic training day… on Friday Chris called and said do you want to ride out to the Coquitlam Cliffhanger on Saturday climb till our arms fall off then ride home… being a glutten for suffering I said sure. This turned out to be one of the harder training days I have ever done, I felt completely wiped when I got home, 2.5 hours of riding and 2 hours of climbing will do this to you.
