Episode 321: Kyra Condie – Olympic Climber Shares her Journey to Tokyo

Today on the podcast is Kyra Condie! Kyra will be competing for Team USA in the Tokyo Olympics in climbing. She is a pro climber and started climbing at age 11. Early on, she found out that she has idiopathic scoliosis so she had to have some pretty major surgeries as a young child. She had a spinal fusion to correct her more than 70 degree curvature and it took several months to recover. After recovering from that surgery, she started competing in climbing and she won her first major competition after that surgery. Since then, she has qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games and she has become a bouldering world cup finalist and is a regular at pro competitions around the US. She shares in this episode what it is like to climb as a professional. In this episode, Kyra also explains what the climbing competition will look like at the Olympic games. So excited to cheer Kyra on at the Olympics this summer! What we talked about: 5:25- How Kyra got into climbing 7:10- Getting surgery for scoliosis and the recovery from that 9:20- Her family & the lessons her family has taught her 11:30- Details on what sport climbing is and how you compete 14:05- How they pick the Olympic team for sport climbing 15:50- Climbing outdoors vs. climbing on an indoor rock climbing wall 18:05- How you score points in sport climbing 18:50- What Kyra’s training cycles look like 20:50- Who coached her growing up 22:05- What a typical day looks like for Kyra with training 23:15- What her strength training looks like 25:30- Finding out that sport climbing would be in the 2020 Olympics 28:55- How hard work was instilled in her 30:20- Her deep water solo climbing adventure 32:50- Managing her fear in climbing 33:50- Thoughts heading into the Olympics 34:45- Advice for new climbers 37:40- Historic Olympic moments that motivated her 39:00- Favorite things to cook 40:20- End of podcast questions Show notes: Disclosure documentary Kyra on Instagram Connect with Lindsey: Lindsey on Instagram Lindsey on Twitter Lindsey on Facebook Join the I’ll Have Another Facebook Group Support the I’ll Have Another Podcast on Patreon Follow SandyBoy Productions: Sandyboy Productions on Twitter Sandyboy Productions on Instagram SandyBoy Productions Shows: Why is Everyone Yelling? The Up and Running Podcast The Illuminate Podcast The Herban Farmacy Podcast Sponsors: Half Marathon And Marathon Training Plan Zoc Doc The post Episode 321: Kyra Condie – Olympic Climber Shares her Journey to Tokyo appeared first on Lindsey Hein .