Ok... This time i'm really (seriously (fer totally reals)) calling it a season. And i can do so with a smile and a goal. Saturday i went climbing with a friend and we put some serious effort in on a Golf Wall .12a. Didn't clip the chains, but it felt very doable. Golf tends to be sandbagged, and they say of it it's the biggest holds you can't hold onto. And by "they" i mean absolutely everyone. You get on these heinously overhanging problems and eventually you find yourself saying This is so huge...it's all there...Why am i so friggin' pumped??!
At any rate, it was a fabulous way to stop climbing for a coupla weeks; and i'll come back into next season with a serious and (i think) very realistic goal. Three Roofs felt like the sort of problem that'd fit just very neatly after a solid month of hangboarding. I will (GOD allowing) get that one. Very psyched, and very impatient to start a new season.
Over the last few weeks i've squeezed in several sessions in the gym--some good and some very bad. That's all i'll say about that: Definitely time to take a couple o' weeks off climbing.
Saturday before last i finally got back in to the irongym. Did deficit deads... First time since maybe end of June. Only did a "warmup": think i worked up to 345 for 5. Then did some Good Mornings. And then i walked like a very old man for the following week. Did also get in some weighted pullup a coupla days later.
Really want to get some general strength back to start a new season. Gunna try to keep the full-body strength training up and better integrated this next go-round.
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