Climb Rainier? Training Detour Alert

My Tri training this year is making progress though very slowly and has taken a very unexpected twist. I have now committed to climbing Mt. Rainier in Washington State this July! It's 14,411 feet which is about 600 feet higher than the last climb I did - the Grand Teton in Jackson Hole, WY. That was a beautiful, fun, two-day climb that included about 9 pitches of technical rock climbing. Mt. Rainier is more of a long hike over snow and glaciers. Should be interesting. An orthopaedic surgeon friend of mine and one of his patients has organized the trip as a fund raiser for Orthopaedic Research at Rush Hospital. One of them is climbing Everest right now! You can check out his progress at http://www.goldenexpedition.org/. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt_Ranier. I will keep you posted on the training progress!