Sosomewhat unexpectedly I find I've booked myself a short (5 days) trip to Rodellar late September, so maybe 8-9 weeks away. Trying to work out what is the best way to use that training time. It's going to be a lot longer than the stuff I've done of late and moreconcerningly probably a hell of a lot more uphill too.
Things I've come up with so far, aside from preparing the ego for a damned good spanking, are:
- There's a 30 degree board at my local wall (TCA Bristol). Use it, lapping the easy circuits and trying to project the harder ones (and doing linkups of bits of them and all that)
- Lots of aerobic capacity style stuff, either steep trad (I figure youre on the rock for a while ahd getting and then shaking pump, so it counts?) or the usual indoor techniques
- Work on my weedy core
- Try and prepare for the "whole body experience" by upping the amount of weights, push ups and so on I do to prepare shoulders and whatever for the onslaught.
- Lose a bit of weight
Anything more venue-specific I'll have missed? Anything in general wrong with or missing from the above? Grades 7a-7b/+ I guess if it's relevant. I saw the "training for kalymnos" thread a while back but there were suggestions there that it was different because of the tufa rests and things...
Any advice welcomed...
Andy