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The Lisa
Trad climber
Da Bronx, NY
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Thanks for explaining, Susan. Sounds like a very useful tool for you. I tend to go by my breathing to gauge my effort level, a low-tech method but it works.
Jaybro, ouch! I hope you are healing well.
I took it easy this week, recovering from the weekend race, but am back on the training wagon for the next races. Did a load of house and yard work today, saving my run for after as a treat. Heading out for a nice neighborhood run now that the day has cooled down a little.
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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Just got back from Alaska. Should we gently ease back into the running routine? Hell, no! Ran my town's 10K road race and finished 2nd for the ladies. Standing up straight takes a few minutes of loosening up, and people have a tendency to stare.
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The Lisa
Trad climber
Da Bronx, NY
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I know, I need to write it this weekend or it will never get done at all. 43 hours' worth of reporting, it will be long, not as long as a Denali trip though, looking forward to hearing how it went for Seamstress.
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wildone
climber
Troy, MT
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Just ran 5 miles at 7.6 mph and 2.5 percent grade on the treadmill, then went over to the Lemond stationary bike and rode his training program at level 12. For an oilfield in the arctic, it sure has a nice gym. I rode so hard my vision was blurred for a few minutes after my workout. Which is awesome. Gotta get ready for the Umpqua and Mackenzie River trails in a week!
P.S. Greg Lemond is a toolbox.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 15, 2011 - 05:02pm PT
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Tuesday, the twelfth was my first run since maiming (breaking? Dislocating?) my foot a month ago; 20' grounder to a slab, as John used to say, "always use a rope!"
Yay!
2 miles, very slowly, but I feel like I'm on the way back! First run as a 55 yr old.
Interesting recovery scenario. For several days I iced, elevated and stayed off. then Daphne reminded me to wrap it in an ace bandage. That was huge! the swelling went down 90% in an hour! Thanks Daph!
The next milestone was inversion therapy. Vedauwoo wide roof problems made more things pop back into place.. I had to climb in two different. sized climbing shoes for a while.
it valways hurt when I put my shoes on, but attempting routes like worm drive and right torpedo tube distracted me enough that I forgot about it.
Then, hiking, actually backpacking into Reese mtn increased the swell factor. I followed some sport climbs there, up to .11b with a Ganda on my left foot. Except for the the toe profile in thin cracks,Ganda.s really do work better than most climbing shoes in many situations.
Wednesday night chasbro and I went climbing at the Campbell county rec center devil's Tower-esque climbing wall. For the first time, I got a TC pro on my left foot! My larger size (40) but it didn't hurt that much and felt better as the night progressed. Yesterday we went back at lunch and I braved my 38.5 mythos. Same deal, felt better over the session, though cranking thin finger cracks has a way to go.
So now, a month after the accident I'm almost back to normal, sort of weak normal range, yahoo!
Being temporarily under a roof again I've jump restarted my pull up regimen as well.starting with 5 the other day and adding five more every day. Today will be 35. I can only do 25-30 in a set so I've graduated to more, smaller sets to get to the total....
Hope everyone else is managing to train in this summer heat.
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Jul 15, 2011 - 06:55pm PT
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First run as a 55 yr old.
Are you shi**ing me? I didn't even have you in this decade...actually the one prior. Go figure...I'm going to go take up climbing full time. Susan
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jul 15, 2011 - 06:59pm PT
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lungs feeling better and im hiking again, but i start really noticing it at 10k.
glad yr foot's feeling better jaybro. always sucks to get an injury early in yr season.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 16, 2011 - 08:30pm PT
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Firat 5-Finger run on recovered foot!
Pretty modest don't know the distance, but 45 minutes in very Hilly terrain in the Blackhills, near Hullet, Wyo.
My running team, Bonnie and Clyde a pair of black labs that collectively out weigh me, kept me on a pretty good pace, Except when they stopped to smell dead things, roll in the wet places, pee, sniff each others butts... actually the pace was just right!
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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Jul 16, 2011 - 11:23pm PT
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I filed my trip report. I don't fail often, but there is no hiding it.
Running is a lot simpler. One foot goes in front of the other. You have good miles, and bad patches. The old and the slow get to run with the young. An objective watch keeps score. It feeds the need to achieve. All are welcome at this party. Strong legs, endurance, consistency are my "ass"ets.
I had a lovely family sneeze and cough all over me on the flight home from Anchorage. So I battled disappointment and the first cold in three years when I returned. As I mentioned, I scored second in a 10K my second day back from Alaska, my second day of running in three weeks. The director didn't see me in the results, so my little piece of hardware went to someone else who was delighted. I did not have the mental energy or heart to correct that oversight. I was on a roll.
Fr a week, the daily runs were just going through the motions. I felt asleep and lifeless. As the cold cleared and I started looking more ahead than behind, the energy began to stir again. I did 10 miles last Sunday (I actually wanted to!!) and suffered just for the last five minutes. This week, I was back to my normal schedule, and the times were on target. The weekend weather isn't cooperating for the backcountry adventure I had planned, but I found myself staring at the website for the races nearby. I will race in the shorter event tomorrow - doing 1/2 marathon would be ridiculous despite how tempting that rolling hill course is in wine country.
Back in the saddle again, I am looking forward to Hood to Coast at the end of August. Let's see how that horse will try to buck me off!
55, I'm just behind you, and turned 54 last month. Guess what - we are still athletes. I felt awful for a short time, but the athlete refused to curl up in bed or flop on the sofa. It is summer - time to crank up the miles and smiles.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 17, 2011 - 10:57pm PT
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Seamstress, we have our ups and downs, but we're still young, and it's all ahead of us. Keep us posted, I'm going for a run/climb tomorrow, Rest up and go big!
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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Jul 18, 2011 - 12:13pm PT
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I did the 5 mile race on Sunday at the festival. The legs got a little lead in them on the uphill section. A large man wearing old fashioned grey sweats was churning away, and we kept passing each other. Normally, I would find this very disheartening. This time, I found it inspiring, to watch someone finding the athlete within them. Yes, he was at least 30 years younger than me. We had enjoyed the chat after the race while waiting to cash in our beer and food coupon.
Took my age group and did pretty well overall given the low mileage spring. It was a money race, so the Portland throngs showed up. Before I give the ego centric brag about winning money, it was less than the entry fee. My bruised ego needed a little boost.
Post race, I was enjoying my specialty pastas procured at the festival. The pager went off, so the aerobic workout continued. I reported for the broken leg on the mountain, but was diverted first to the cave rescue. It was a small contingent for that mission, so a lot of work for those there. From an aerobic perspective, the stairs were run eight times, the length of the cave once, and the rescue rig to the cave entrance was done four times. Thankfully the patient was a medium sized child and easy to move. We went up the mountain to work on the climber, and then were diverted to a new mission for a mountain biker falling off the trail, down an embankment, into a river. That wrapped up quickly (at least the extraction part did)and was a low mileage event. Then back to the mountain as the pack out had yet to commence up there. We grabbed lots of lights to pack up thinking that the carry would go on well past dark. Trail conditions were rugged for a carry since the trail is still covered in deep snow and enormous tree wells made it impossible to keep hands on the basket reliably. We met the team 2 miles up the trail. With our fresh arms and legs, the carry moved quickly. A fresher and younger crew met us a bit later. We wrapped up this carry just as the sun set. Thus the additional lights served only as weight resistance in the workout.
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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Jul 18, 2011 - 03:41pm PT
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Lisa, what a novel event. Love anything that taxes brain and brawm simultaneously - like climbing. Thanks for sharing the experience.
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jahil
Social climber
London, Paris, WV & CA
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Jul 18, 2011 - 05:32pm PT
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Run 3 miles followed by 3 sets:
2 x pullups + 60 pounds
15 push ups
2 minutes plank
200 crunches
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Jul 19, 2011 - 12:09am PT
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At 74 I thought I was doing pretty well on pull-ups, etc. until I watched this!
88 Year old man doing pullups
Ament has some footage of me doing what he calls my "bouncy pullups" in his latest film
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The Lisa
Trad climber
Da Bronx, NY
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Jul 19, 2011 - 10:27pm PT
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John, presumably your pull ups are better than his. Although to be pulling anything at all at age 88 is admirable. My instructors are very strict on form and full range of motion, or reps do not count.
Today we worked on cleans, snatches and ring rows, followed by 8x 250m sprints with two minutes of rest between each sprint. I needed every second - it is 90F and humid here.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 19, 2011 - 10:57pm PT
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I don't know this counts, but ti did get my heart rate up and I was wheezing...
Brisk solo of the Weissner route on Devil's tower. Left the car at about 5, hiked ten or so minutes on the paved trail and slogged up the dirt trail, then semi technical scramble to avoid party of five in the "bowling alley" Didn't get going on the route until almost 6, then two and a half piches to the meadow and up the 4th class to the summit by 7:04. After writing in the register, taking pictures and a brief snooze. I was down to the meadows and half way down the first Bon Homme rappel by 7:24, where, due to a traffic jam I sat for another two hours.
So, unclear of quantifiable aerobic benefit, but as the route is only maybe 5.8 wyde, the way I went, I thing it was more of an aerobic pump than anything else.
I was able to wear Gandas for the whole thing and avoid shoe change, hauling. I think I could have done it in three hours or less (2?)with out the delays I encountered.
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The Lisa
Trad climber
Da Bronx, NY
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Jul 20, 2011 - 12:19am PT
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J, pictures plz.
That sounds like a good workout, nice work :)
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Jul 20, 2011 - 01:13am PT
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Running over 50 is not the big deal...
... but finding the magic during those runs is!
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