We made it! The next three weeks are officially the first performance peak phase of our cyclic training program for climbing! Hard to believe we have been at it for 3 months already but here we are ...
Ahh, now we’re talking. Shelf Road again?! Another weekend of camping!? You bet. And although we are local this weekend, we are headed back to Shelf Road again for the next. It’s hard to b...
‘At last a glint of sun reveals the approach of a great echelon of birds. On motionless wings they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and setting in clamorous descending spiral...
Of course as soon as I edit and post these photos it starts to snow, but I have actually started to become accustomed to the mood swings in the weather around here. Among awesome things that spring br...
I just took my first spring stroll around Golden. As I opened the door, as if on cue with the calendar, I smelled the sweet scent of blooming flowers in the air. Ahhhhhhh what a feeling! As our prepa...
Today is our last hangboard workout (8 total) in the strength phase of our training and this week will be a transition week into the power phase which will include much more bouldering and campus boar...
Several months ago I wrote a post about our financial adventures and implementing a new budgeting plan (inspired by Dave Ramsey) that recommended we pay our loans with the lowest interest rates first....
It’s been a month now and we are still going strong sticking to the Rock Climber’s Training Manual Routine. Between hangboard workouts we got out and did some moderates in Clear Creek yest...
I don’t know what it is about being on a team that is so damn enticing. Maybe it’s an instant sense of belonging? All of the sudden you have a title, teammates, inside jokes.. Sarcastic or...
The quest continues with our Rock Climbing Training Manual routine this spring. One interesting thing (among many) that has come to mind in the process of reading this book is the connections between ...