Whilst I was away travelling I think there was an article on Mark in Climber magazine, I was alerted to his blog by a colleague at Plas Y Brenin, but finding the time to look at his blog has taken me a few months. Basically Mark used to compete at climbing to a high level, and took several years off from climbing, no doubt to concerntrate on more life oriented things. He then got back into the sport and decided to set himself a challenge of going from falling off F6a sports routes to Redpointing F8a, in a staggering 180 days.
Whilst he did not blog prolifically, he did make 18 post that are tagged on his website “6a to 8a 180 days”. It is these posts that I think are really interesting from a coaching perspective, as he does many things that organised his training and set milestones along the way that if followed would lead to the achievement that many people would love to do, myself included, and climb F8a.
There are only two pages of his posts of reaching this goal, some of which are linked to documents he has made on training specifically for it. As such I recommend looking at Mark’s Blog and having a read through it. He is currently on a mission to onsight 8a and is in europe working on that goal as I type, Good luck to him. He is also a part of REACH climbing coaching.
UPDATE 2012: Marks Blog seems to have died, but he is now blogging here at Reach Climbing.