[Richard Hazelby]

Richard Hazelby on November 24, 2017 at 6:17 pm · in reply to: Training hours #6809

Hey Scott,

Cheers for the reply. so I have made the first zone 2 work out of the program into a 2-hour zone 2 mountain run rather than a 1 hour and boosted the zone 1 up to 4 hours, in the first week, also added in two climbing sessions, climbing 1-2 grades below my onsight grade.

Monday – Max strength
Tuesday – zone 2 mountain run (2 hours am), climbing (1-hour pm)
Wednesday – zone 1 (4 hours)
thursday – max strength
Friday – zone 2 (1 hour am), climbing (1-hour pm)

That’s what my first week of the ski mountaineering plan looks like, added climbing in, due to not wanting to lose my climbing.

[Richard Hazelby]

Richard Hazelby on November 23, 2017 at 12:40 pm · in reply to: Strength training #6792

The problem I’ve got is that I had to cut my mountain hours quite a lot for the training program. Even now at 11 hours of training a week (that’s excluding my 4 hours a week of strength training, so 15 hours) I could happily spend 20+ hours in the mountains a week and a lot of time for work I have to do more than that. having such a big base already I found that if I added my strength time then my time in zone 1 just wasn’t enough or if I was spending a lot of time out then adding the strength was just punting my hours up when I was trying to keep them low.

Rich

[Richard Hazelby]

Richard Hazelby on July 3, 2017 at 5:48 am · in reply to: Training hours #5505

Hi Scott,

That’s cool. Thank you for the reply. Work as a mountain leader in the UK and previously a ski guide in Canada and the Indian Himalayas, so have a pretty decent base already. The hours working in the mountains don’t tend to tire me out as I am usually working in zone 1, I use HR to determine my speed with groups and very rarely might pop into zone 2 if the terrain is steep and with a very fit group. One of the hardest bit’s I am struggling with at the moment is coming back from injury, Last August I got injured and put out for 5 months and have been struggling to get back to my previous fitness. Still fitter than the majority of the people I take out. I have been working in the ski industry for the past 15 years, but only started guiding 5 years ago.

If we get the chance, I will no doubt pick your brains and the Cham workshop.

Rich