We are about 12 months into our never-ending training regime to climb the pesky 5.13 grade, with no end in sight! We have made progress still, but slow and steadily. Mondays and Tuesdays are reserved for endurance training, while Thursdays and Saturdays are power. Initially we would sort of kill ourselves on Mondays leaving us pretty trashed on Tuesdays, thus leaving workouts lackluster and less successful. So we discovered that instead of treating these days as two individual sessions, we would gel them into one training evolution period.

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I have to preface that building the bed in the back of our van was the BEST idea of 2014. It has become a vital tool for us to harness our ‘Jake and Jill spirit for adventure’ and has motivated us to start ticking off the local Colorado hot-spots that are NOT climbing related. After a few trips to Moab, UT, we really wanted to go someplace closer to home. This weekend, we went to Dillon, CO; It couldn’t have done a better job at satisfying our need for fun.

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We had an extra-special weekend last week (well now a little more than a week ago), when Joe and Julie surprised us with a weekend visit to good ol’ Colorado! They had never been out here before, at least to Boulder, so we wanted to show them some old school Colorado experiences. This is also the first time that we have a “guest blog” on our blog, as Julie took the liberty of posting many of the highlights of the trip.

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