Climbing Training Update: To wednesday!

Didn't have time to get out last weekend but I finally got the cleats all settled with the bike shoes on friday and I have to say I'm pretty impressed! Haha, It's a completely different style of riding but it's still good. Had some falls onto my left hip which were pretty dodgy but whatever; I've managed to get a whole bunch of cardio in. Memory's slightly rusty so some of these numbers might be a bit off, but here's the training log:

Saturday:

• 10km ride in the morning to test the new pedals, which worked pretty nicely. Managed to hit 70kmph on a downwards stretch! Awesome!!
• Another 20km ride in the afternoon to the gym.
• Got about an hour of bouldering done. Mainly working to see if the moves on some of the new boulder problems were possible, and they are! I think I'm finally beginning to crack into the grade 4 properly.

Sunday:

• Can't remember. More bike riding though; I think I did another 20km bike ride, and got some bouldering in at St. L. Same sort of thing - working on the same problems.

Monday:

• Cycled to uni; was pretty horrifyingly tired by the time I got there considering I'd been doing bike for the last couple of days - and that was the uni ride, so all up 40km. I got home and thought I'd do buggerall for the rest of the afternoon, but...
• Ended up going back to climbing at 2pm with gerald, just to have a look at some of the new walls that had cropped up at St. L. + some light bouldering. I got some of the moves on the 4D though which I thought was pretty sick; so there's some good stuff that I'm beginning to work my way into.

I've taken the last couple of days off to have a good rest, but I'm back to it tomorrow morning - probably a boulder and climb before I make my way to uni for the day.

Feeling great! And pretty excited for the end of the year for upcoming Nowra and Blueys trips, and possibly climbing in HK as well. 

Anyway - keep training :D More training logs soon.

Last weeks trip to the mountains!

For some reason I must be stuck in a time sink; I have no idea why the video is labelled 14/05, when that was actually a monday... :\ so it must've been the 12th. No idea why my dodgy calendar has been mixing that up.

In any case, last saturday we went out to the mountains for a straight-up amazing experience. We went to Dam cliffs, and even though many seasoned climbers have told me that it's a fairly dangerous noob-area, I had a bucket of fun.

We made a video on youtube which you guys can check out here - but otherwise, a rough summary of the day goes something like this......

8am left syd, driving on L's, got two apple pies, drove into a ditch, got pulled out by a winch (amazing), got wet feet :(, fell into a river, then climbed some amazing climbs.

The ones we did were:

• A Tale of Two Cities (18)
• Sisters of Fatima (16)
• Envirodandal (19)

I also gotta say that it's pretty scary watching the lead climber go up. 

On the agenda for things to do include learning how to do the anchoring. I also went lead climbing this last week but I haven't finished the course yet - and a writeup will go up in due course! 

See you soon!