Training Log Archive: hamlet

Although I wasn't feeling well today, I wanted to get out of the house and do something. So, I biked to my mom's work (sligo creek trail is beautiful and so pleasant compared to Rock Creek, well, except for the road crossings but still it's so much prettier) so I could go to IKEA with her.

Bouldering :( (coaches wanted us to boulder today)
I did really well, considering how I was feeling (which honestly was like utter crap). I managed to do this V3 on my third try, and I tried doing this V4 which I knew what I needed to do, but it was a dynamic move and I just couldn't grab the hold well enough to actually hold on. Then, I did his other, harder V3 after, like, 6 tries. There was this one part where I was holding onto a knob-like hold with my right hand and I was trying to (dynamically) reach a jug to my left, but I would swing out like a door if I let go of the wall with my left hand. So the I tried holding onto the knob with my left hand and reaching up to a juggy undercling with my right hand, while heelhooking with my right foot on a hold just around the corner. The first time I tried it, I almost got it, and then when I finally reached the undercling I was just trying to finish the darn climb so I didn't have to do it again. I was happy to have done it, and it was hard. It was overhanging for the most of it, but the holds were almost all jugs, which was nice. It was a great climb for working on sequencing, which I need. Then we worked on a little bit of campusing (I couldn't do it) and hangboarding (10 seconds on the easiest grip).

20 i's, 20 y's, 20 t's, 20 dumbbell rows, 20 leaning t's, 20 close-grip pushups (on knees)
30 sec plank, 30 sec spidermans, 30 sec plank, 30 sec toe-tapping plank, 30 sec side plank, 30 sec superman
30 sec hollow body, 30 sec leg lifts, 30 sec marching leg lifts
20 high knees per leg with band, 20 starfish jumps, 20 squats, 20 paw backs (with band) per leg

Event: QOC Swanson Road
 

For the first 5 controls, I was doing amazing. I was running fast, and navigating accurately. Then I made a mistake at control 6, because I severely underestimated the distance along the reentrant that I had traveled. 7 was also messed up, because for a change I overshot it by one spur. Then, for 8, I both under and over shot it. First, I went into a reentrant too early. Then, when I was correcting it, I got into THE CORRECT REENTRANT, and second guessed myself, thinking that it's to big, and continued on to the next one, then finding out that that wasn't what I expected it to be, so I stopped for a bit to try and focus and I returned to the correct reentrant and finally saw the control and I was angry at myself. Then I tried to be really careful for number 9, but noo of course I undershot it again. This one had a relatively quick recovery though, so it wasn't that bad. Also I undershot it by approximately 30 meters, so it wasn't too bad (the reentrant forked into 3 instead of 2, as I thought, so I went into the second part, the middle one, but after a bit of confusion I realized my mistake). 10 was a very clean leg, and so was 11. Then 12 was just slow, I was getting really tired. Those elephant trails at the end were awesome, it's nice running as one of the last ones for a change.

Green - Splits

Event: NE Ohio Python Rogaine
 

It was really fun, my mom and I did pretty well I think. We ran occasionally, and we navigated pretty well. I think there were just two controls that we made a mistake on, but both of them cost us up to 5 minutes, so even if we hadn't made them it wouldn't have made much of a difference. We ended up doing more than we expected, because at the end (after I dropped off my backpack in the camp) we did one more small loop.

2 sets of 10x 50lb lateral incline press
2 sets of:
25x 90lb vertical leg presses
15x 50lb calf lifts

then I was moving some 35lb and 45 lb weights because someone put them on the rack wrong.

I took it really really easy today, I don't want to be sore tomorrow for the 10 hour race. After doing all this, I stretched really well.

I really don't want to be sore tomorrow.

2 sets of:
10x 50lb lateral incline press
20x 10lb bicep curl and press
10x 3lb t lifts

4 sets of 30lb low rows

1 min hanging (tapped the ground a few times to adjust my grip or dry my hands real quick)

25x 3lb i lifts

12 per Side Bow and arrows

4 sets of:
30 sec run, 20 sec pickup and 10 sec sprint x5
2 mins jog

Just going from school to the optometrist's office.

I finally felt really good while climbing (maybe because I actually had energy and I wasn't overworked?)
lead:
5.9 - onsite
5.10c - onsite
5.10d - repeat, (I top roped this on monday, rested twice) one hang
5.11a - completed, 2 rests
5.11a? - new climb, written as a 10a. NOBODY agrees. It's way harder. I had to chat a bit on the first move. But then I made it up to the overhang, and I just couldn't make it past it. This is a really hard climb, no way it's a 10a. At least a 10d, but I think it's an 11a.

Dead bugs, leg lifts, supermans, and crunches.

Since I was sick today, I stayed home. Honestly it felt great to finally get some proper rest, especially since my core was killing me from Monday. Although I missed a workout for xc, we don't have practice tomorrow so I'll just do it on my own tomorrow. Also, my dad came over and helped me tune up and mostly fix my bike (the back tire was deflating slowly, so I had to pump it up every morning). I'm glad he did, because that was really annoying.

3sets of:
25x 70lb leg presses
10x 50lb calf lifts
15x 25lb squat

12 minutes on the air bike