In reply to Nick Russell:
Cheers for doing the stats Nick - another high volume week for me - even managed a bonus session on top of those prescribed by coach Randall.
However, my shoulder is starting to complain again; a work trip to Hamburg for the next couple of days should help the recovery before going to Chulilla next weekend. 8b RP is the target for the trip – either El Infierno, or El Montana Magica depending on temperatures/sunshine.
BHAG:
- “La Geurre Sainte” 7b/+ multi-pitch in Wadi Rum
- Hard sport multi-pitch (8a region?) – something in Taghia maybe?
- Kaa’bah, 8c+ - gotta aim high!
LTG (2015):
- Do some adventurous cycle touring (maybe MTB Great Glen/West Highland way?)
>8b+ RP – cherry pick from the list below
- Unjustified/Overjustified & Bat Route, Malham.
- Waddage, Mecca & Extension, Tor.
- True North, Kilnsey
>8a on-sight (turns out the lattice board is very non-linear and I need to aim for 110 moves for 8a+ OS; Eek!)
MTG (Winter ‘14/’15):
- Finish off all the remaining routes at Brean; 7c, 8a & 8a+/b link-ups
- Stay in gainful employment – redundancy looking less likely, but still not certain
- Fisheye and/or Humildes pas Casa, Oliana; End of Feb.
- Headpoint some hard grit
- Decorate the house & build some home training facilities
- Healthy shoulders, fingers & elbows – keep following the physio (boo – bad finger)
- Get some proper “rat crimp” strength so that I can climb hard on peak lime - as much about being a skinny wretch as it is having strong digits it seems
- Cut the lard; 76.1kg and 6.7% BF this morning, but like Mutl3y it was lower midweek (75.5kg and 6.6% BF) – gotta stay off the expenses paid dinners whilst in Germany this week
STG (next week)
- Fit in some core and aerobic conditioning at the hotel whilst away with work
- Smash in Chulilla’s backdoors
Last week:
M - Stockport. Warm-up then 6x doubles on a 7b. 16 tie-ins total.
T - Boulder mileage, 2x 20 problems, then 8 laps of 1 on/2 off aero-cap. Struggling with the aero-cap intensity again; not really getting pumped, but powering out instead.
W - Rest: working on campus-board Mk2, then 330 core movements and 90 press-ups.
T - Progressive an-cap & 1 on/1 off aero-cap. Short session, puffing lots of 1on/1off, but not getting excessively pumped – need to up the difficulty I think. Shoulder sore.
F - Rest; cinema. Excess pop-corn consumption
S - Back to Parisella’s – wasn’t as cold as last week, so surprised the mixed was in after the thaw on Friday. Great session. Managed Cave Life – LWH link (7C+) first RP after reminding myself of the LWH finish, then set about working Lou Ferrino sans pocket (8A), which in some kind of miracle went down 3rd go! Then did all the lip problems, and tried BCLS and BCDLS a few times, dropping them from the lip each time. Beasted. Snack based dinner watching movies at friends house.
S - 20km pre-breakfast road ride to try and burn some fat, then aero-power bonus session. 8 laps on the Stockport “super-circuit” (7c/+ ish). Laps 1-6 successful with increasing pump. Lap 7 fail on the downclimb. Final lap fell early, but pulled back on and finished with excruciating pump! 10min (7a auto-belay) continuity to warm-down.
P.S. Finally got round to updating my blog - filling in the gaps from not doing full trip write-ups. Kalymnos done; Costa Blanca and Oman to follow shortly.
Post edited at 09:02