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A Double Workout Day

February 9, 2010 by Alli Rainey
A self-imposed difficult climbing training day looms before me this morning, with a little more than two hours until start time. Then, I’ll be launched into a seven-hour day of working out, starting with the most fun part, the bouldering session. After that, I’m going to fit my normal two

Last days before the race starts

February 9, 2010 by sovijarvi
 Monday 8th of February  We handed over all the equipments and now just waiting for the start.   Today was little bit easier than yesterday even though it´s has been really busy until now. It´s 10pm local time and tomorrow morning we have to wake up at 6am.  We have to be ready

Animal World

February 8, 2010 by Alli Rainey
Every morning now when I sit by the fire reading after meditating, Jedi casually saunters over, sits down right next to my chair, and plops his enormous fuzzy head in my lap, flopping his droopy (but thankfully not slobbery or drooling) jowls across my leg. It’s morning petting time, a

Strength, Confidence, & Security

February 7, 2010 by Alli Rainey
The stronger I get, the more fun climbing is. I reflected on this again after yesterday’s bouldering session, followed by my weekly pure power workout. I’m starting to really feel a cool, new sensation in my bouldering, this ability to power with one arm—it’s so awesome and amazing; I can’t

Last few days...And off we go!

February 7, 2010 by sovijarvi
 6th of February  Yesterday I left Santiago toward Punta Arena without other team members. We were supposed to take the same flight, but when time came I was still alone. At that stage my only option was to take the flight and hope for the best. When I finally arrived to Punta

Dreary Outside, but Happy Within

February 6, 2010 by Alli Rainey
Dreary, dreary, dreary. That’s been the weather trend of late, with barely a glimpse of the sun. I’m always more of the mindset that I’d like it to either snow a whole huge butt-load, or just be brilliantly sunny and warmer than average—not a huge fan of this in-between sittin’

Why a One-Arm Pull-Up?

February 5, 2010 by Alli Rainey
Once, months ago now, when I mentioned to a climbing friend that one of my training goals was to be able to do a one-arm pull-up, their dismissive response was, “And that’s going to help your climbing how?” I looked at this person with incredulity, thinking, “And I can even

Nagorno-Karabach part 1

February 5, 2010 by Erik Ekedahl
I came along for a ride. The swedish women rights organisation, Kvinna till kvinna, that I will work (taking photos) for later this spring was driving to Jerevan and there was room left for me in the car. The scenery along the 250km Tbilisi-Yerevan route is diverse, The mountains, the

Before the Why

February 4, 2010 by Alli Rainey
Lazy, random snowflakes drift down outside my window already. The sun didn’t come up this morning. Instead, a gradually gray lightness gently rocked the world awake out of its darkness. I’d long been awake already, having had one of those random and quite infrequent nights of poor rest, waking up at 3:35

Tuesday Training

February 3, 2010 by Alli Rainey
After the heat had been going in the gym for a time, and I’d walked to the post office with Jedi and back, I headed out to put more holds up on the wall. This has become my pre-bouldering ritual this year, and will continue to be that until all