I have been thinking about some interesting thoughts/idea’s/topics to write about lately, specifically for my “you’re not hardcore” series of posts (this is not as easy as it seems FYI for all your non-bloggers…to always come up with new ideas to write about). Originally, I thought I might write, in great detail, about WHAT my workouts entail (reps/sets/workouts/just what the hell do I do?). Whenever I mention that I spend 3/4 hours a day with this ‘training,” thing, people always wonder how I spend that much time and the answer to that is it’s easier then you might think.

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I have been a total slacker on writing posts about training and climbing. The truth of it is that its not particularly interesting to write about (or for our vapid readers, read about).

So I will just say that we’ve been training super hard and tomorrow we are putting a top rope on a potential assent of a 5.13a “Barely Eagle” at our favorite crag in Boulder Canyon, Eagle Rock. Although these plans may change as we have some friends visiting from Chicago and if we take them climbing it will be someplace super easy like the Sport Park (where we take all newbies to climb).

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Month 8 on the quest for 5.13a (yeah…moving though these hard grades takes time) feels like forever now. I have heard that one benefit of taking time off from climbing *from an injury* is renewed motivation. After nearly a month off of climbing (for me, Jake) I have just that. Generally speaking, I’m always pretty motivated when working out; 8/10 workouts I’m rip-roaring and ready to go! Note – Jilly has not taken off from climbing and has been crushing it the last 2 months – climbing harder than she ever has before and better than 90% of the men in our gym.

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