I am currently typing this from my new college dorm room in Kennedy Hall at Northeastern University in Boston! As my summer draws to a close, I figured I might as well share my many adventures before my engineering class schedule becomes too difficult to manage. Hopefully this will tie you over until then! My summer started out in June with a trip to the Teva Mountain Games in Vail for the annual Bouldering World Cup. Vail is definitely one of my favorite competitions of the year. Besides having some awesome boulder problems in the comp itself,...

Today I had very unusually training, I was climbing with the measuring instruments. This is a part of my preparation to the world championships. We had to know how my body consumes oxygen while speed climbing. We also used the accelerator which measures the position of my body in different planes during the day. The pulse was mastered as well. The entire study will last seven days. Good, that climbing with the mask was only today. But the rest instruments accompany me 24 hours a day! After completion of studies, I have to wait to analyze the...