Cycling before Ski Touring Betters Results and Lowers the Risk of Accidents
Annually it is the repeat story. In spite of walking to work, and an infrequent trek, every skiing season starts enduring those excruciating 1st few hikes when Im left in the wake of junior and faster ski chums.
Being unfit while skiing it’s awful, and can be very dangerous. To ski down you need some extra reserves. A tired skier is more likely to have injuries and tiredness could be a contributory ingredient to incidents, such as falls and avalanches.
Surely there’s a safer way to commence the winter, and a lately released 305 page book by Gerald Cooley, who previously wrote Ski Alps, looks to tender a resolution. Whilst directed at climbers the data is for the most part applicable to touring, with its arduous scrambles as well as additional games.
Cycling, training for peak results is adequately researched and easily read. It is a fine all round manual that gathers some poignant research. You can acquire a unique training regime or tune your existing regime. Afforded that it is written for mountaineers, and so much of the information could be irrelevant for touring, it is certainly a book to get if you want to do a few of the long 24 hour or multi day routes.
