My Cup of Tea

A few of my thoughts from time to time...

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Location: Santa Monica, California, United States

My main focus right now is trying to keep a balance in life. I'm currently working full time and getting a PhD, but I also believe life isn't supposed to be all work and no play. Thus, I keep from going over the edge by escaping to the great outdoors just about every weekend. Activities that keep me sane are: Mountaineering, trail running, backpacking, rock climbing, snowboarding, kayaking, mountain biking, scuba diving. My 3-yr plan: Mont Blanc, Matterhorn, Elbrus, Ushba, Ama Dablam. Recent successes: Denali, the CA 14ers, Rainier, Pico de Orizaba, Ixta, Aconcagua

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Energy

Why am I so tired lately? Maybe it's that "creating a new balance" thing I was talking about earlier, or it could be that I'm getting older, possibly a result of my diet, could be due to work and school catching up to me...or is it the mountains draining all my energy?

Lately, Yannick and I have been going mountaineering every weekend. Yeah, I know, it's a bit much, but we were training for Rainier. We're in great shape, but we also wanted to make sure we had all the technical stuff down -- like rope work and crevasse rescue -- and be completely acclimatized. Ends up that over the past 6 weekends we more went and scaled 14ers without doing too much rescue practice. No worries though; I'm confident that we will be able to get ourselves out of any trouble we could possibly get ourselves into.

Well, even if it's the latter, I'm not giving it up. I'll live a little on the weekends even if it means dying a bit during the week!


My mountains, my life...

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