Training Log Archive: philm64

Indoor climbing with Lynne, UCR

good sesh, Shoulder not too bad , seemed to improve.
Sadly R index finger (?) why ? - seemed to be hurting right off. no idea why, taped it up and climbed and no pain climbing, but sore afterwards~?

perhaps i bruised it unknowingly yesterday at O.

it's a new effing ache every effing day!!! Grrrr.............

6b+ hard red flash; got on the sharp end of 3 6c's, & did OK on them too. V strong, light, confident, & technique fab. Definitely climbing as well as ever. need to stay healthy though ..... that's the challenge now.

NGOC league, High Meadows, Blue, 5.9k, 300m

Hamstring OK, some pain but nothing too major. Injury box unticked because today apparently went relatively well (relative= compared to my peer group)

1,2 - fine, v good in fact. took successful route to no 2 beating others by ~1 minute,

no 3 - only time loss really - bad map, poor attack point, relative position of large depression & road etc not correct. lucky to only lose 2 mins.

rest of course (good course, nice forest - apart from no 3) - trundling along really, noticeably slow & unfit on the uphills (had to walk many), pretty skippy on flat & downhill, even ran flat out on no's 12 (path) & 15 (unmapped path). Got lucky on 13 - could easily have lost time there.

General nav & compass work seemed as good as ever, which was a pleasant surprise, as I assumed I'd be rusty.

Passed Mark3 at the last control, where he lost 6 minutes. Dear me!

Results: http://www.ngocweb.com/results/results_17/L3res.pd...
Splits: http://www.ngocweb.com/results/results_17/L3splits... - Mark3's no 16 is epic.
Routegadget http://www.ngoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#95&cour...

https://www.strava.com/activities/879341884

Stiff after , but as leg no worse, and we already know i have no "tear/strain" (it's just referred nerve pain), I feel obliged to untick injury box & cautiously resume a campaign towards the big events of the next few months.

A good day.

C • No.3 3

C • Big events 5

Cycled to Clifton

4 hours & a glass of wine later, cycled back in the dark.

Hilly.

Another easy jog round the block post indoor climbing. Windy (Storm Doris). Leg not as totally pain free as I'd hoped, like on Monday, but not as sore as yesterday, either. So pretty good. I guess.

Note: Preceded by climbing with Clio, at UCR, pretty good but shoulder a worry - RHS , where i have no chest muscles at all. (literally). Seeing osteopath on Monday. Could be a challenge for him! :)

I did do a decent 6b+ plus a new 6b & 6a+, and a 6c with 2 rests & a new hard 6b+ with one rest.

Steady run - a bit further. Wind & rain - vile.

LH hamstring OK, but not perfect as it was Monday.

Felt horribly unfit tho - not a pleasant 30 minutes. Stopped & walked / jogged back from local shops after 30 mins' running.

Hmmm. Not feeling the love here....

C • Don't panic 2

At last a rest day.

easy road loop after climbing.

to my delight, back to "no pain in hamstring"

lifting my knees up & prancing - felt nice, things are moving again.

demanding terrain running is something else entirely of course, but i'm happier now. see how NGOC goes on Saturday before unticking any "injury" boxes.

Bloc indoor bouldering climbing alone.

very good hard session, despite some RH shoulder pain.

major crimpy problems attempted, with some super failures.

"worked" a 6a problem and, when warming down (last climb in fact!), sent it! Wow!

So that's a 6a climbed, 5c is my usual limit, 6a = V3, and I've only ever climbed routes with 6a cruxes on about 3-4 times in my life, back in 2012, so I know now I'm climbing as well - possibly better - than ever.

#chuffed to bits.