Lets start with the fact that Ryan and I are $532 from reaching our $7000 goal! Even more good news is that my dad is $1500 from his goals of $3500.(donate to dad) How awesome are our friends and family? I will tell you simply that our friends and family are inspiring. We laid out our hopes and you are all exceeded expectations! We are helping those with lung disease with such ease, awesome!
Ok so now to the training. We are fundraising prepared but what are we doing to prepare for a 14,000ft climb?
With our work schedule it makes it tough to get to the gym or outside regularly, but on average we make it to the gym in the morning 3 times a week. I am really looking forward to warmer and brighter mornings to run outside and breathe the fresh air. The gym is great to get in some sort of cardio, which is better than nothing, but we all know preparing for a big climb means hiking and climbing outside in the real mountains; which our hearts want to do every evening after work and every weekend. Work sure gets in the way of the heart! We have had the pleasure of a few hikes and snowshoes trips as reported earlier in this blog, but recently all we have time for are a few urban hikes. I would just say a nice walk but we have committed to wear our amazing new daypacks on evey walk we go on, which makes it feel more "hike" like. Yep thats right, can you picture it? We are walking around Brier, a lovely neighborhood of sidewalks and cute homes with our bags filled to the brim, helmet , ice axe, and trekking poles attached to the outside. Yep, we look a little silly but wow it sure helps the heart when work won't let us head to the woods. So we hope as it gets warmer we get more time in the woods, but we are staying active.
In other news, last weekend and one day next weekend we have been working to completie a MOFA class. MOFA is a 26 hour outdoor first aid course designed by the Moutaineers. The class is a requirement for any alpine scrambling (which we are taking) and basic climbing courses offered by the Mountaineers. We are 2/3 complete and feel pretty prepared for most accidents in the outdoors. The last day of the class is going to be practice of all the things we learned to really set up our confidence with the new found knowledge.
Hopefully the following weekend (3/20-21)we finally get a chance to go hiking! Any recommendations?
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