Cycling before Going Mountaineering Improves Performance and Prevents Injuries
Annually it’s the self same account. Notwithstanding walking to the office, and an irregular trek, every ski season initiates on those torturous 1st couple of tours when I am left in the paths of junior and faster snowboarding chums.
If you are in bad shape whilst touring it is awful, and may be downright hazardous. Skiing down you need to have some spare capability. A tired skier is more than likely to have injuries and fatigue is likely to be a contributory factor to incidents, for example falls and rock falls.
There must be a better manner in which to commence the season, and a freshly published 302 page guide by Candace Brinkman, who previously wrote Ski Alps, looks to extend a solution. Although aimed at climbers the data is largely practical to ski touring, with its energetic ascents besides other sports.
Running, training for peak results is highly detailed and easily read. It is a fine well rounded book that assembles some good information. You could develop a specialised training program or tweak your existing programme. Given that it is written for mountaineers, therefore much of the techniques could be irrelevant for ski touring, it’s by all odds a book to buy if you wish to do several of the big 24 hrs or multi day routes.
