Climbing, running, stuff
May. 6th, 2008 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbMile in 9 mins 10 secs, 1.5 miles in just under 15 mins. That's my first 1.5 in 15 minutes in nearly two years, I think. 21 mins on the treadmill, for a total of 1.8 miles.
Climbing: I'm at the sticky point where I'm competent enough to do the three routes I can do even when somewhat tired, but not strong enough/sure enough to do any of the next five. I fell off at the same spot on the 4b overhang - I can see what I need to do, I just can't get there - got a little higher on the 4c corner and the other 4c overhang, got higher on the 5a - likewise, I can see what the move is, I just don't have the grip strength to manage it - and fell off another 5a at the same point it beat me last time.
I also managed the first two moves of an itty-bitty 5b route on the slab wall. But, ouch.
But I'm not wrecked right now, not the way I used to get after trying three routes. All I need to do is keep going, keep trying - and maybe talk to a gym instructor about working up a program to improve my upper body strength.
But I'm already doing a lot, so maybe I should just get a consult on exercises to do to keep in trim when I'm in Crete and don't have access to a gym, or a climbing wall. (Alas, I looked up rock climbing in Crete, and the main area is in Chania, on the far end of the island from where I'll be. So I think I should cross that off my list of Things To Do, since I already plan on diving. And that will probably be quite enough to occupy my meagre free time.)
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I studied. Yes. Ask me about Greek tyrants, ask! I can answer.
(Alas, I was supposed to manage three topics today. Oh, well.)
Climbing: I'm at the sticky point where I'm competent enough to do the three routes I can do even when somewhat tired, but not strong enough/sure enough to do any of the next five. I fell off at the same spot on the 4b overhang - I can see what I need to do, I just can't get there - got a little higher on the 4c corner and the other 4c overhang, got higher on the 5a - likewise, I can see what the move is, I just don't have the grip strength to manage it - and fell off another 5a at the same point it beat me last time.
I also managed the first two moves of an itty-bitty 5b route on the slab wall. But, ouch.
But I'm not wrecked right now, not the way I used to get after trying three routes. All I need to do is keep going, keep trying - and maybe talk to a gym instructor about working up a program to improve my upper body strength.
But I'm already doing a lot, so maybe I should just get a consult on exercises to do to keep in trim when I'm in Crete and don't have access to a gym, or a climbing wall. (Alas, I looked up rock climbing in Crete, and the main area is in Chania, on the far end of the island from where I'll be. So I think I should cross that off my list of Things To Do, since I already plan on diving. And that will probably be quite enough to occupy my meagre free time.)
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I studied. Yes. Ask me about Greek tyrants, ask! I can answer.
(Alas, I was supposed to manage three topics today. Oh, well.)
