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i think this was my first full irongym workout in about a month. i took it a bit easy. Not a bad workout though. Got a double on p'lups with 90lbs, but i didn't feel like a got totally locked out at the top, so i left off. Went back to straight leg deads, but stopped after 255 x 6. Didn't see any reason to throw a spring after three weeks away. Definitely felt a li'l toxic--'specially on the weighted leg raises. That sucked. Anyhow, next week should be a happier place. Hopefully this stopped the downward spiral. i'm to a point where i have to take some time off of climbing (else my left hand is gonna ossify and crack off), and conveniently i'm nowhere near a plateau on iron since i haven't lifted in a month. That means i have something to keep me from getting bored till my tendons knit.

Funny how you can sometimes intuit that you're somehow getting more and more toxic; then you can go for a single workout and the foghat is removed and you know just how poisonous you've become. i guess i'm thankful for those eye-openers. Better now than at 50.

Osteoarthritic

i climbed on tues. This was not a good idea. i was bored of school, and needed to get some blood flowin', but the fingers didn't want to work. i'm gonna try really, really hard to lay off this next week from climbing. i'm gonna go (hopefully today) to the irongym for a hard session. Annie's off after tomorrow, so i should be able to run and swim more in the mornings.

Steph just went through a week of a gallbladder cleansing diet. Positive Murphy's, positive Rovsing's, and no insurance for surgery; so she tried a diet. She lost four lbs. and feels a million times better today. She had to get on the wagon, give up coffee and cheese, and live on shredded beets and parsley, but she very obviously feels way better. That's happy. Now i'm thinking about trying it. i surely do need to detoxify. Eleven hr. school days followed by four hours of writing busy-work assignments is not so beneficent on m' health.

Anyhow, here's to losing some weight and rebuilding the PIPs stronger than they were before. Peace.

Forgive me, father, for i am insomnolent...

...It has been 12 years since my last sleep.

Thursday, i went to the climbgym and failed to send two projects: one a v5, and one a (very stiff) v4. Friday i went back and sent 'em both. This makes me very happy. i feel like less of a loser than i did on thurs. i must'a' put in 20 or 30 burns on that goofy 5. Could not stick the final crimp on link. Finally got a fresh perspective (after a month or so of not touching it) and some fresh beta, and it went pretty easy.

Today i played in a kickball tournament. Who knows? Maybe i have a little better tan than i had before. i hope to get back into the irongym tomorrow. i hope to have a beer and sleep tonight.

Status post midterms

Swam on sat. Failed to work out on iron. Gunna try to get a thin workout in, but i'm kinda' ok with doing some hardcore healing this week.

Of water rights and beer rights

Went climbing with a friend today. we did some leading in the gym. It's odd: i'm good for about 6 moves, then i'm cashed. Zero endurance. Ended up doing 5 or 6 routes, but i had to hang on an 11, then again on a 10-. Then i took off the harness and sent three v4s in a row--two of 'em i hadn't done before. methinks i'll see the next level in climbing fall when i spend some quality time doing routes, and get my endurance up a bit.

Anyhow, about that beer...When's it gonna happen, gents?

Overdoin' it.

Did a 2hr. run today. Ran to the top of U-mound in the foothills. Thought my heart was gonna explode. Might'a' been a hair excessive. Think i might have compressed a few discs. Ah well...that's out of the way now. i can say i'm back up to a 2hr long run. "What doesn't kill you," and all that. S'poseta' climb tomorrow. See how that goes. At any rate, midterms are over. i may have flunked outta school, but they're over with. Happydance completed.

How vivid is your false memory of that conversation?

Speaking of autoimmune destruction, i seem to have an allergic, hypersensitivity reaction to sleeping less than 6hrs/night for weeks at a time. Midterms are over after today, an' i'm gunna do one o' those Mary Poppins-like jumping heel-clicks. my body is gelatinizing, and i'm jonesing to get back on the wagon. Gotta stop dipping, for starters. And i'm thinking about sleeping again soon. This is what happens when one chooses to learn 5 weeks of material in 3 evenings.

Clumb monday and yesterday. Actually, of monday i can hardly say i clumb; rather, that i went to the climbgym and cussed a lot. Yesterday, though, was a better day. i was actually healed and strong enough to properly re-injure the tendons. i can hardly ask for more than that.

Speculatively, i'm gonna go really light at the irongym this week. i am broken down, and i want to heal properly. And i would like to be able to touch my toes again before i hit it hard again.

Immersion therapy

Yesterday i got to go to Los Conchas with a couple o' friends. (That's the place we camped). That was a good time. Tried that 10d/11a beside the easy 6, but i melted down--maybe 5 feet from the chains. Took a 10 foot fall, but swung into this scooped out bit in the rock and whacked it with my knee. That opened me up pretty good. Nasty lookin' scar that'll leave. Anyhow, i got back on and finished it; but it was a li'l bit frustrating that i didn't get the send. i just wasted too much energy figuring out the bottom sequence. Got me a flash pump, and couldn't shake it out. There was chalk caked on literally every possible bump and nubbin below the second bolt, and by the time i tried out ten different sequences, i was fried. i did get back on a few minutes later, and got it in a go on toprope, but i should have had it on lead. Blah...i'm whining about being in one of the prettiest places in the state, and getting to climb on a perfect day. Still though, i've got a grudge against that route.

Today i got us a year-long family membership at the pool. Did kinda' the same swim--5 x 100s on a 2:00 interval--but this time i added in an extra 500m of straight swimming for 1,600 total. i wasn't sure i could pull off 500 without drowning, but i kept making turns and feeling good 'til i was done (even if i may have been a li'l pokey). That's encouraging. Gives me high hopes i could swim 1K soon.

Tomorrow i'm hoping to take a break from the straight-legs, and do a ME on regular deads. i'm gonna be a tad mo' conservative and see if i can break 405 proper. Turned out 450 was a li'l too big a jump.

You guys need to come up here this summer for another man-weekend. Conchas rocks. we started on that 5.6 and just worked our way down the rock. Ended up doing six or eight routes between 5.6 and 5.9. Lots of chilled-out, easy climbing with nice views. That was a breath of oxygen.

Sunday add-on:

Got me a PR on regular deads yesterday. Got a double with 405, then (finally) got a single with 410. And i got it listening to soul music. i'm developing a new superstition. Missed 425, but i think it'd go. Got 'er to my knees, but i couldn't lock it out. i needed some ammonia and someone screaming obscenities at me. Also worked up to 3 with 90 on weighted pull-ups: a clean single and 2 negatives. Reasonable workout. Low back is sore today. m' decrepit fingers are also starting to thaw a li'l bit.Might be some hard climbing again in the foreseeable future.

thank you for you to make me learn more,thank you∩０∩

captain's log, stardate, um, 3:

went for a reasonably hard hour-long run on fri. Then i went for a swim. Same basic swim as last time, but i actually did my 100m intervals on a 30sec interval (as opposed to just whenever i quit wheezing). Yesterday (sat.) i went for another swim--again, same swim; only this time i left on the 30 which punished me for swimming slow. So i was averaging probably a 20sec interval 'tween sets. If that don't get my buoyant butt a li'l mo' streamlined, then i don't know what will. i have only gossamer hope for squeezing an irongym session outta today; but hope is hope. Looking to be a busy coupl'a weeks at school. Maybe that'll buy me time to mend the IPs and lumbricals.

Actually broke out the Gnats yesterday, thinking about where to put them. Those things are schmall. i think i'm gonna put a couple of 'em on the wall proper for when i'm feeling particularly manly. i'm gonna set up a dyno to 'em. Moving off of 'em without feet is not an option, but i think i could stick a dyno for a second...like if my other hand is on a jug. Vamos a ver.

Tack-on what since nobody looked at the last post:

Sneaked into the irongym for a quickie today. Only striking thing 'bout it was that i took chalk in with me. Got the set of 4 at 295 on the box (str. leg deads); then put a couple o' fivers on and got 3 at 305 on the box for a PR.