For some reason it would seem we've come to the conclusion that attempting to climb Mt Blanc would be a good idea! Something that the owner of our gym (Joe) keeps hassling us about is setting goals and seeing them through, so we're now booked up to do a guided ascent in July with the realisation setting in fast that we'd better get our arses in shape pretty soon or look at chucking a few thousand $$$ in guides fees, flights, accommodation etc. down the toilet.
We've been sporadically going down the gym for the last year or so but have only really just started our training in the last couple of weeks (bit sloppy as 3 months prep should be an absolute minimum! Joe is gonna kick our arses!!).
Will try and go a bit more in depth in future posts, but our basic plan is to do x1 big walk/run every Sunday from now until our departure and x2 1hr sessions in the altitude chamber during the week (yes we are very lucky to have access to an altitude chamber for training). Err, may have missed those sessions last week due to us both being so f*#@ing ridiculously busy at work at the moment.
Anyways, enough whinging about how hard our lives are having to actually work rather than train all day everyday. Just a couple of photos below from our training session today in the Blue Mountains. We did the Golden Staircase to the summit of Mt Solitary and back going via the Ruined Castle in both directions. Was good and hilly (just what we need) with a decent amount of scrambling. I had a 6kg kettle bell in my pack which made life surprisingly more difficult and Mai carried quite a lot of water and other equipment.
It took us 5hrs30mins and Mai's watch said we'd done 16.8kms. Pretty good session, think we've still got a fair way to go before we're ready, but was good to get the legs burning and always great to get out in the Blue Mountains.
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