I’ve had a good summer, but for better or for worse I a goal to put at least 100km on my road bike a week through the summer. This was done over two to three nights a week, usually with a time trial in there as well. I got quite a bit faster on the bike, but it was both time consuming (at least 4 hours in the saddle a week) and tiring (time trials are exhausting!).
I did okay climbing on the weekends, and I would have one training night during the week, but honestly I’m going to need more time than that to be happy with my performance in World Cup this year.
In the last couple of weeks I have put the cycling aside and have felt recharged for drytool training. During the week I have been doing two or three evenings and also climbing regularly Saturday and Sunday. During my weeknight training sessions I am continuing with building endurance and working on figure-4s.
This weekend I climbed with my friend Stephanie both days. She is planning on doing the speed comp at Bozeman, but she is super motivated and improving a lot so I secretly hope that she also does the lead comp (shhhhh!). While I love climbing with Nathan it was a nice change of pace to head out with another woman.
When I train on the wall at home I mostly concentrate on movement practice. Nathan has a bunch of holds that he brought home from Korea last year. He has them laid out for his own practice so some of the moves are quite difficult, but since the men’s routes are always harder than the women’s I hope that I won’t encounter moves quite so difficult during competition.
Here are a few photos of me and Steph climbing on my home wall and outside training structure. So psyched on training right now!
Mixed Progression 