Climbing Log

Background

Why I Started Tracking

Every pro climber and coach I've spoken to says the same thing: to get better at climbing, you just need to climb more. After a conversation with my friend Adam Beauchamp, I was inspired to push toward 20 hours per week — a real commitment that meant being far more deliberate and disciplined about my training. This log was born out of that conversation, and it's kept me motivated and accountable ever since.

But tracking volume alone isn't enough. Raw hours don't capture quality, and simply counting sends by grade misses nuance — grades are non-linear, a V8 flash and a V8 project aren't the same effort, and what's available to send depends on what the gym has set that week. So I built a weighted scoring system: V8 = 1 point, V9 = 2, V10 = 4, V11 = 8, and so on (doubling with each grade). Dividing that weekly score by hours trained gives a Score/hr metric that normalizes performance by effort — a number that's hard to inflate and easy to track over time. As my dataset grows, I plan to move toward monthly score rates to better capture multi-week projects.