Originally Posted by gsteinb

Been hiking less (it's shoulder season), and focusing on cycling a bit more. That has been putting me on the bike about 5 days a week, doing structured workouts for generally 90 minutes. Making some headway on bringing my numbers back up, and can now get through interval sessions without needing to toss the bike through a window. I'm actually enjoying riding again. Will see what happens as the next phase of the pandemic unfolds, but if there happened to be a race up a mountain sometime in 2021 I might be inclined to contest it.

Been accumulating winter hiking gear - picked up a new ice axe yesterday, a hardshell last week, some crampons the week before. So when I head back out there I'll be less apt to slip off the side of a mountain. There's been snow on the peaks since October, and despite the warm spell there's pretty solid ice up there.