Season 10

Have started Season 10, albeit sorta ambiguously. For ARCing this time 'round i basically got in 3 or 4 sessions of 10-15 climbs. Not optimal at all, but finding a belayer with an attention span longer than 10mins is tricky. Not really possible to traverse long enough on that wall as it's currently set up. So not much in the way of enduro. Am contemplating some way to set up a mini-wall or otherwise set up some hangboards so as to do some proper endurance sessions, and I do think that'll be possible, but haven't worked that out yet.

Have started hangboarding, and that's actually been less depressing. The last two or so months have been miserable. I work in the middle of nowhere, and it's dark when i leave and dark when i get back home. And freezing. So not terribly inspiring. And then i partially tore a calf muscle and haven't been able to run or ride. So i've gotten horribly outta shape and fatter than i've been in a very long time. Hangboarded a few days ago at 210 clothed. That's depressing, just 'cuz it takes months and months of constant work to pare my blubber down to sub-whale status, and then it takes nothing at all--an injury, a less-than-optimal work situation--for it to all go to hell. But on the flip side, even though i'm working out 6-8 lbs heavier this go round, i really haven't lost any strength in my hands. So there's light. If i can unload the toxins and lard, there might be some decent muscle buried in there.

[Never got around to publishing first 3 Hangboard seshes up through 12/25/18 from the bit above. Today I did HB #4 for Season 10. Weighed in clothed at a depressing 214, which is a new high; but that also made several grips de facto PRs, 'cuz i actually went up on a few grips, new layer of blubber notwithstanding. It was about 13degrees out there this morning, and it was tricky to feel my hands.

Notably, i did also get in a 30ish minute run a few days ago. And while it was ....well, it was ugly, i didn't feel like my calf was going to unravel. So there's hope.]

HB #4 S:10 12/29/18 214lbs clothed:

WUJ: -15

Large Open:
1: +15↔: No fail.
2: +25: Same, no fail. Not bad. Very cold.

F 2,3:
1: -40↔: No fail, but mighty spicy at the end.
2: -30↔: Toe down last bit of the last two reps. I think I could'a' warmed up better, and, again, i was 4lbs heavier.

SemiClosed:
1: -25↔: No fail, but super pumpy.
2: -15↔: Last coupla secs last 2 reps.

F 2,3,4:
1: -12.5↑: HA! No fail! That's a proper improvement all around on the last workout.
2:  -2.5↑: Not bad! Toe down at the end of the last 2 reps.

Wide Pinch:
1: -40↔: Woo, bleh. Foot down on the last 3 reps.
2:  -30↔: Ugh--horrible. Can't feel my hands.

Slopa':
1: BW↔: Got 4. Bleh. I felt bad about this, but this was the same as last workout excepting i'm heavier.
2: +10↔: Got 3. Ugh. Same.

Narrow:
1: -65↑: Got 4 clean, then meltdown.
2: -55↑: Got 3 clean.

Very hard to feel too bad about this workout. Actually went up in iron even without figuring in my puffier butt. If I can keep stringing seasons together without losing all my gains in between, and then also lose some flab, i might see some real progress this time 'round.