Heavy Ketchup

Look like it been ten day since i posted up in yah. See if i can 'member what i done.

That monday (woulda been 10/13) i went back in and did manage to send that problem that'd been stumpin' me. It seems like i went back in about once more--probably Thurs-- for some climbing before YnY, but kept it reasonably low-volume what so's i might make a showing at el comp. Do believe i did a sprint workout somewhere in there.

Yank 'n' Yard!!: Really awesome problems. Didn't do too badly all things considered. Got 6th in my age group, but i was one harder problem off of third. Pretty tight grouping there. And i got to the silly thing half an hour late cuz the geniuses in NM DOT had I-25 completely shut down and let us know about that a hundred meters before it happened. So my warmup consisted of a v3 dyno problem. So: i do believe i could've performed better, but i ain't complainin'. And it was a blasty blast to do some creative problems. And the pro comp was the coolest i've seen yet.

Monday i think i climbed for a while in a largely humdrum, non-committal state. Then yesterday i went back in for a "warmup" just to get the mitts moving, and ended up having a stellar day of it. Sent some pretty hard problems after all was said and done.

Today i sprinted. Did 6 or 7 intervals of 20 secs. Didn't feel too hot. Li'l stressed. But it felt good to move.

Tomorrow there's a comp at the college. Ends up being a funny comp style, cuz all of us that actually compete have pretty much already done all the hard climbs, and have 'em wired-- 'cuz they put the routes up in some cases weeks ahead of time. So it ends up being more of a speed-endurance comp than a redpoint comp. You got like an hour and a half to do as many climbs as you can, so the goal is to do all of 'em in the time. Not a necessarily-bad setup, but it's definitely slanted to the locals. It pretty much comes down to who fell the fewest times. It might be a better format if it were timed. Anyhow, we'll see.