Been a weird week. At some point in there i had a pretty nice climb workout, but i never made it into the iron gym. Yesterday i went hiking with friend near Truchas Peak. Got my butt kicked. i actually started feeling hypoxic at around 10,800ft. Haven't experienced that since--what?--elementary or so. At any rate, it was around 16+ miles and 8 or 9 hours of hiking. The first half was a relentless uphill bit. Beautiful hike. i am fat and outta shape though. Everything in my body is sore. All i could think about nearly all the way back to the car was beer and ibuprofen.
Climbing wall is still not erected. It's ready to go, but i wanted to put some of the heavier holds on today before i put it up, so's not to have to hold 'em up and try to pull the t-nuts home at the same time. But i cross threaded the bolt on the skull, and ended up having to Dremel the piece of crap t-nut off the bolt (which was stripped), and then it flash-flooded on me and that was all she wrote. i was cussing that nut with every curse i could evoke, and the bastard would come loose. i tightened it with a 2 or 3 inch long hex wrench. Tried backing it out the same way, and the t-nut spikes bent flat. Clamped a vice-grip on ('cuz that was all i could even hope to get a grip on it with) and applied a cheater bar to the hex wrench and it just ended up ripping the coke-can-tempered t-nut back to shreds. That was irritating. Hopefully tomorrow'll be a better day.
Got a bouldering comp coming up next fri. Gunna try to keep this week fairly light, and see how it comes out. probably climb tomorrow or tues. i also want to lift, but i'll probably tone that down a notch or two also. Plus, i can use a tendon-recoup week. i'm feeling very old/decrepit after yesterday.
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I think nine miles around a flat track would bring me to my knees at the moment. But I don't know, I'd try about anything that would get me above 10K ft at the moment. Very inspiring. Hey, don't kill yourself before that comp. Cheers!
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