Today was the true start of my winter training. Setting off at 7.30 in damp drizzly weather I proceeded to demonstrate to myself several things: a)why I need to be in training, b)how much smoking really isn't good for you and c)what the contents of my stomach looks like. I can at least console myself knowing that chundering seems like a good indicator of effort (and terrible fitness i hasten to add). So that's it, running every second day come rain or shine.
I have to admit I'm pretty polar with my training - its all or nothing - and today was very much a demonstration of the effect of the nothing side of the agreement on the everything side. Over the next few months I'm looking to really give training a proper shot - running, climbing, weights and any other other training methods I stumble upon.
The books will be coming out of storage - Mark Twight's Extreme Alpinism, The Rock Warrior's Way, Geoff Lowe's Ice World and any other tome that I will study extensively then ignore in my usual fashion.
This is all pretty incoherant but I hope over the coming weeks that the blog forms some sort of training diary and that I will be able to come up with results. So here are my aims for Scottish winter 09/10 season. Climb a proper grade IV mixed route and a V on ice (point five or the like) - it can't be that hard, can it?
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