Season 8 (!!)

It has now been almost 4 months since my last post. It's a little alarming how often it has been 4 or 6 or so months since a last post. There are only so many 6 month stints in a person's life.

Ah well: I've done a lot of workouts in the meantime. I've moved to PNW, and have--if anything--been climbing too much. But I hadn't started an official season 'til quite recently. Over the last couple o' weeks I put in what'd amount to a lot of ARCing. I didn't exactly follow the workout prescription as I got in the longest day, and was walking the hairy edge of rupturing my right biceps. Arm bruised up, etc, and I took it sorta easy the next week. but I haven't laid off for any appreciable amount of time. Feel like I am slowly healing, notwithstanding...and quite by the grace of God.

I have been doing some iron workouts. Most recently (last coupla weeks) I've been working mostly on pushers. My shoulders have been hurting a lot recently, so i'm trying to rehab 'em. Seems to be helping. I did a hard workout--in fact a 5/5/5 workout on a 500 max-- on deads shortly after getting here; and that was horrible both on my shoulders and my right biceps. As such, I haven't been pulling weight for the last couple of weeks whilst trying to heal. I find (in my elderly age) that it's hard to keep up heavy back work and high volume climbing. And I default to the climbing.

With the snow here, I haven't been doing much cardio. Haven't yet been on my mt bike. Have done a few stationary bike sessions at the gym. That's fun very much like tapping myself on the head with a tennis racquet is fun: Good times for almost a minute. Funny, but I can't seem to get my heart rate up on those ergometers.

At any rate, I did HB#1 today. That was fun. I really like hangboarding. I couldn't weigh myself as I don't have a scale. But I really don't think I've lost any weight. Mercifully, they do have the Trango board set up here, and interestingly they don't have a pulley setup for it. So the hangboards are basically unused. I hadn't done a HB workout since about September of last year. But it doesn't seem I've lost any strength. In fact, it seemed like I made some gains on a few grips. Really good start for the season.

I get to go home next week, so that should be some very useful rest. Might get another HB workout in on tues, but if I don't that'll be just fine.