Episode 321: Kyra Condie – Olympic Climber Shares her Journey to Tokyo
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
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
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Sandy Boy Productions Podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Hey everybody, welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Hein. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm your host Lindsay and I'm so grateful you're here today. |
| 0:30.9 | This is a podcast where normally I interview runners, professional and everyday runners, |
| 0:37.2 | but I'm doing an athlete series where we aren't necessarily focusing on runners here. |
| 0:43.6 | This is a Wednesday episode. |
| 0:44.9 | My normal episodes drop on Fridays. |
| 0:47.9 | So today I wanted to highlight an athlete who will be competing in the games in Tokyo |
| 0:54.6 | in the Olympic Games, who is not a runner. |
| 0:58.1 | And that is Kyra Kondi. |
| 1:00.4 | She is a climber. |
| 1:02.4 | She qualified for the Olympics for Team USA and she's a professional climber. |
| 1:09.4 | She started climbing at the age of 11 in her original home gym and early on found out |
| 1:16.1 | that she had idiopathic scoliosis. |
| 1:19.4 | So she had to have some pretty major surgeries as a young child to date spinal fusion surgery |
| 1:27.1 | to correct her more than 70 degree curvature and took several months to recover. |
| 1:33.3 | But then she started competing and climbing and she won her first major competition after |
| 1:38.8 | having that surgery. |
| 1:40.6 | Since then she has qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and she has also become a |
| 1:46.0 | bouldering World Cup finalist and is a regular at pro competitions around the US. |
| 1:52.5 | Now Kyra explains to us what the climbing competition at the Games at the Olympic Games |
| 1:58.6 | will look like. |
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