climbing

So, I skipped a few weeks of posting training updates. I didn't, however, skip training. My precious MacBook Air is in the hospital, having its innards replaced, so I don't have access to all of this past week. But, if memory serves, I did four training

My shiny new Petzl Nomic ice tools arrived this morning. They are quite possibly the most beautiful things I've ever seen. Dangling a couple hundred feet above the ground with only a half inch of the point chipped into the ice while I scramble to re-gain my footing

I was in Springfield Missouri, buying wine for Thanksgiving when one of the luminaries at RMI called me. After introducing himself he got right to the point: "If you're still interested in doing Liberty Ridge, we have room for you in June." Awesome. So I got

Thanksgiving sort of interfered with my normal training stuff, but since I was in Missouri, I took the opportunity to do some running outside. Which was awesome. Treadmills will steal your soul. Monday I ran 71 flights of stairs. For the first time, I started timing my stair running so

Last week I made two trips to the gym (just running and weights) and three stair running trips: fifty flights the first time and sixty-three each of the last two times. The last time, I managed to do the whole set up stairs (21 stories), without stopping, twice, which is