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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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May 11, 2011 - 01:13am PT
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Excellent day skinning up St. Helens on Sunday. The tradition lives on!The weather forecast scared away the crowds - maybe 50 this year instead of the 350 last year. We had sun, no wind - and intermittant snow squalls.
After surviving two big days on the weekend, the legs surprised me and had no trouble with 6 miles flat miles near the river Monday and 5 miles crammed into lunch today. Did I detect a little zip?
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The Lisa
Trad climber
Da Bronx, NY
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May 11, 2011 - 02:09pm PT
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Crushed from a 20-minute AMRAP (as many rounds as possible in 20 minutes):
5 chest to bar pullups
10 wall balls (14# medicine ball thrown to 10 foot hight target while rising from squat position)
15 kettlebell swings (35#)
7 rounds plus 1 measly pullup.
Hamstrings are tight from the wall balls and forearms are tight from the kettlebells.
Great nonstop workout, collapsed on the floor sweating and panting after it.
Now to rest as I have two races this weekend. Must look at calendar before registering for races in future.
Ski season is essentially finished in the NE so I love seeing folks' touring photos - keep them coming!
Seamstress, you will do so well on Denali. Your training is conditioning you so well.
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salad
climber
Escondido
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May 11, 2011 - 02:16pm PT
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back in the saddle starting this morning. i havent done jack since a half marathon in feb. managed an easy 2 miler this morning, walking 18 holes this afternoon on an exec course.
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
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May 11, 2011 - 05:20pm PT
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10 laps swim.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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May 11, 2011 - 05:29pm PT
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pool laps, 20 mile living room bike ride, going for a hike, sans cane.
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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May 11, 2011 - 05:57pm PT
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There is something about saying it out loud that increases commitment. I appreciate the bits of encouragement, especially since my honey would rather keep me "fluffy" and rest my way into shape.
Second day in the gym this week with the focus on legs today. Then I wobbled out and trotted a mere three miles. There appears to be a limit on how much I can squeeze into lunch before too many people notice. I hope to jump on the exercise bike when I get home late tonight, followed by more futile attempts to reach for my toes.
My knickers are in a twist with plans for the upcoming weekend. I want a different venue, but that takes more time behind the wheel. I've come up with a plan to volunteer my husband for training and candidate testing for the rescue team this weekend. Then I might be able to zip over to Rainier for a different snow sufferfest.
The best of the ski mountaineering season is here and now. Lisa, you should try it sometime.....
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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May 11, 2011 - 05:59pm PT
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WI - kudos on the sans cane. I assume there is a story on that.
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Lorenzo_InA_Benzo
Mountain climber
Yolo
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May 11, 2011 - 06:49pm PT
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today was fun:
running in hills, 100 minutes in Zone 4, not aeroBic BUT HORRIBLE!
then, 200 turkish getups with 45 bar.
^ive never understood why crossfit peopl 'love' to writh about after the workouts...doesn't this tend to happen when you lose in an MMA match or fist fight, or taking it to the worst level, just got your ass smoked (not smoked out, cuz then we be staraight BLUNTED and being on the flor is normal :) lol)? just never got that about it, u don't see professional athletes doin this, is it just learned behavior? i understand collapsing after a 60hr push in the mountains but after a 2, 10, or 30minute workout? jus wonderin aloud!
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rhyang
climber
SJC
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May 11, 2011 - 11:09pm PT
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My usual 10 mile / 2400' gain after-work hike on Monday evening.
Got out on my mountain bike this evening, rode 18 miles / 1000' gain, mix of pavement and fire roads.
Went to the climbing gym on Tuesday night, more of the same tomorrow night.
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Aya K
Trad climber
New York
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May 11, 2011 - 11:30pm PT
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I gotta say, while I had tons of fun at tough mudder, any of the peaks I've done in the winter in the Dacks (eg North Face of Gothics, even the slides on Giant) were physically way more strenuous. The course had about 7000 feet of elevation gain over the 10 miles but with no pack full of ice gear on my back the hills seemed really easy. Growing the balls to jump into 35 degree water multiple times was a different story. Anyways, I feel like a fat pig because I took the last three days off from working out - not because I've been sore but because I've been lazy and using it as an excuse. Poooop.
I'm off to BODY STEP tomorrow. Man, how I love that class!!!!!!!!
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Chinchen
climber
Way out there....
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May 11, 2011 - 11:45pm PT
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8 hour days building a deck in Mammoth.....
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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May 12, 2011 - 12:40am PT
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Been running 2x a week, anywhere from 4 to 11 miles, including at least once/week hard interval training. Yowza!
Improved my 5k time from 28:00 to 24:00 on my local course, still lots of room for improvement but been good so far after only running 4 months!
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
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May 12, 2011 - 05:53pm PT
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Good job GDavis!
kenpo p90x for me...so good!
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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May 12, 2011 - 06:08pm PT
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Fri: Power day in the climbing gym. Campus board. Boulder problem pyramid to warmup (~8 problems) then 5 sets campus: mid rungs ladder, smallest rungs ladder, smallest rungs skip-2 touches w/5 reps per side, 2 rounds of smallest rungs skip-1 ladders. 3 sets gravity boot inverted situps after.
Sat: Rest. Catch up on sleep I missed being out of town for work.
Sun: Several miles day-hiking in local nature preserve.
Mon: Power day in the climbing gym. Bouldering warmup pyramid (~8 problems increasing difficulty) then all-out attempts, flashed 4 new problems, sent a hard new thing in a few tries, almost sent an equally hard thing I'd tried a couple times in a prior session. Having put in 5 solid efforts on limit-level problems, did a quick warm-down and went home.
Tues: Rest.
Yesterday: 8 set circuit of shoulders/chest/tris ->5km tempo/sprint on the bike, then a mile home on the cruiser bike as my warmdown.
Today: Starts the PE phase of the climbing specific training, 2 weeks of power is complete. Probably 4x4s in the gym, maybe routes. We'll see in about an hour. Then gravity boot situps
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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May 12, 2011 - 06:50pm PT
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The hammies were not overly enthused about running today. However we did accomplish 8 miles on a section of the Wildwood Trail. The rhodies are blooming, and some of the mountains were showing their faces - if you know precisely what you are looking at.
So nice to be in shorts!! and a t-shirt!! with no rain gear on today!!
I miss those NE trail races. Those frequent trips to the Whites provided the opportunity to start climbing.
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Aya K
Trad climber
New York
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May 12, 2011 - 08:10pm PT
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I went to step class today and almost threw up (which is not an unusual occurrence, laugh all you want, that stuff is HARD) but it was so hard to motivate now that the (somewhat anticlimactic) race is over. Poop.
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murcy
Gym climber
sanfrancisco
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May 13, 2011 - 12:52am PT
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5.5 or so over "the Dish" at Stanford, which is now a manicured asphalt trail. I remember when it was dirt and you'd trip over cows and bikes and bikes that had run into cows. Felt crappy and slow, but the GPS said I set records for the 100m dash 88 times in a row, so I got that going for me.
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
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May 13, 2011 - 05:44pm PT
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3 mile run. bp is normal for the first time in years!
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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May 13, 2011 - 05:47pm PT
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An hour of fighting those rubber bands in the gym, which should become a comedy sketch. Topped that off with a 5 mile run and a cup of soup. Thinking about a coffee run now.
Excellent news on the BP front!
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