Marinading

Reckon i'll post up on the last week, just to keep 'er straight. So last mon i climbed. Seems like it went just all righty-roo. Also had a test on mon, which, miraculously, i got an A on. Tues i worked back. Went ok, 'cept i had no grip from climbing the day before. Wed i did nothing 'cuz i had a huge test on thurs (which i'm still a little worried 'bout. That was one o' the hardest tests i've yet had.) Thurs i climbed. i was getting the inner-ear vibe of the free-fall i'm taking in energy output vs. fat intake. Climbing did not go so well. i'm getting chubby. i'm getting broken down. Fri i (again) was too busy to get a workout in. Yesterday (sat) i did chest/abs. Umm, could'a' gone worse. Got me new issue of Climbing magazine in. Here's an excerpt from an interview with Paul Robinson about the hurdles involved in climbing most of the v15s in western Europe:

There were periods of five days where it rained every day, and I was forced to rest for the entire time. Many weeks in October and November, I would only have two or three days the whole week. That was a huge struggle, and it was really hard to maintain finger strength and endurance.

 i don't know what to say about that. i think it would help if i weighed 150lbs instead of 200. i really need to start doing regular cardio. It really does make it easier to keep my weight down--and more importantly, it helps me not graze like a dang cow.

i think i'll have an IPA and contemplate how much better i might maintain the finger strength and endurance to consistently climb v15 if i only trained more than 3 days/wk. And i might just go do a hangboard session while i'm cogitating all that, just 'cuz i'm sick of being indoors.