3000 kilometers in a rental car

5 Parks Canada Passes

1 broken bite valve

24 Gels

3 routes

June 23rd through July 1st, 2007

There are two attitudes a person can feel after a mountain. Either you: 1. swear off mountaineering forever and second guess your abilities and decision-making or 2. start planning the next mountain before you're even home from the airport. We started planning our next trip to the Canadian Rockies before we had finished hiking down the glacier from our final route. I will never be able to fully describe what an incredible place the Rockies are. The only way to truly understand is to go yourself and experience some of the finest alpine climbing around.

On June 23rd I will be heading up to the Canadian Rockies to climb a couple mountains.  This gives me roughly four months of training before we leave.  I'll be building on my fitness for the presidential traverse, however my new training plan is much more intense.  For the PT, I did something once or twice a week (stairs or hiking).  More often than not it was once a week.  I am now training 5 days a week and have added 2 new elements to my routine.  My personal take on fitness for slogging is that there are 3 separate areas I need to work on.  Aerobic endurance, strength endurance, and working your stabilizer muscles.

*If anybody has any comments on training, let me know

1. Aerobic Endurance - for 2 months I will be doing long slow runs, then I will step up the speed and start interval training.  If I get bored I'll do cycling or the elliptical machine.  I will do this 2-3 times a week for 1-3 hours each.  This is the first time I've started running - and I'm loving it.  Each time I run I find some other area I want to run next time.  I don't find myself getting tired after a long run, but I do find myself quite sore.  My knee is starting to give me trouble too, hopefully that is only because I'm shocking it with a new exercise.