Sometimes life just catches up with you, and the past 7 days or so have been that way for me. Between school and work I haven't gotten much in the way of quality training and for the first time in a month my training stress balance is in the positive ranges. That means my short term training load is less than my long term.... ie I'm losing fitness. As dumb as it sounds I feel overweight (still at 70kg and 8% fat) and I get really antsy when I don't train hard.

Anyway, I'm off to Ouray Colorado to ice climb for six days. It will be a welcome break, I guess sometimes you really do need to come up for air! After that I'm back to training seriously and I'm eagerly anticipating the start of the racing season in March.

Cheers!
Justin