The August Plog: New Training, How I'm Doing 18% More, Squamish Recap, and Performance Hacks

Casually reflecting on my training, performance, and experimentation for the month, including:

• Recap of August goals (hits and misses)

• Struggling like crazy with the new training load

• How I achieved 18% more completed workouts

• Squamish recap

• Getting on the fall 12c projie for the first time

• Technology I'm using to hack my training

• Can a vegetarian use collagen?

• September goals

Shoutout to Aiden Schlatter, Michael Martin, and Kent Olmstead for supporting at the Hero level on Patreon. So mega!

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I hope your training and climbing are going great!