I’m not usually one for putting lots of quotes in my blogs, but I think the things I want to say have already been said, more elegantly, by others, so we’ll start there: “Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness” said Dostoevsky. It seemed very noble when I read that from the comforts of my [...]
I couldn’t really believe it. On only the second trip of the season I had climbed half of the route clean. Sure I hadn’t lead all of those pitches yet, but I knew that I could. Getting over the mental barrier is the most important part of doing a First Ascent or First Free Ascent. [...]
One of my big goals for this year is to run 50 miles. I had been planning on doing this at a race (and I am doing the Squamish 50 in August), but as it turns out, I’ll be confronting the distance before then. This weekend, in fact. I’m still pretty new to this whole [...]
Over the last five years Lizzy and I have gone on a number of very productive trips to Indian Creek. There are still new cliffs that we have yet to visit, but we have picked off most of the low-hanging fruit. With this analogy I mean that we have gone around and done the fun [...]
Despite many trips to Red Rocks over the last five years I have yet to do many of the shady spring-time routes. One reason is that I haven’t felt ready to test my mental limits while maxing out my physical abilities. So in the past I have stayed away from a number of routes in [...]
My favorite way to write gear reviews is about stuff that I’m genuinely excited about, regardless of what it is or how I got it. The Montrail Rogue Fly trail running shoes are one of those cases. This is a story of a girl and her shoes. They were not perfect, but they just felt [...]
For the first time in almost five years I took an extended vacation! I escaped to Utah and Nevada for the three weeks following my birthday and went climbing for a total of 18 days! Four of these days were “half rest days”, a non-functional idea of sleeping in, but still going climbing. I also [...]
It was Monday and I was already having a rough week. I was mentally exhausted from a long (but successful) week of collecting data down at Caltech, but my body was grumpy from a long week of collecting data and the 12 hour roundtrip solo drive. It’s the beginning of a new quarter, there are [...]
I find it hard to pinpoint why exactly I participate in my chosen sports. I think that everyone has a different reason to get out and put in some miles. There are many different aspects of running that motivate me and they vary from week to week. This can make it hard when I to [...]
The months of 2013 have blurred together and the routine of daily life has been flying by. It has been a crazy year so far and I can barely believe it is already my birthday. Every year I take a look at my big list of walls and routes I want to check out in [...]
As Luke mentioned, we recently had the opportunity to take Arno Ilgner’s Falling and Commitment Clinic. I learned a lot of skills that I was able to start directly applying to my climbing, but I’ve actually found that some things are also just as useful for running. One of my main goals for this year [...]


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