Wow! This blog is degrading to a list of workouts... :-(
Unfortunately there's not too much more happening at the moment. When I am not in NM the weather here doesn't allow for any climbing outside. I guess skiing would be an option...
Anyway, last weeks workouts:
Sat: 9 mile run on the trails in the desert around Carlsbad, NM
Sun: Rest
Mon: 5 mile run
Tue: 3 mile run
Wed: 6 mile run (back in Cali SCT)
Thu: 3 miles on treadmill at PG B, 45 minutes of bouldering, mostly long traverses to increase endurance
Fri: Rest, noticed some tightness in the IT Band of my right thigh.
mileage (Sat - Fri): 26
Showing posts with label bouldering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bouldering. Show all posts
Friday, February 20, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
Another week...time flies!
Ok, here's the next weekly activity/training update:
Saturday:
5 miles running on the SCT at race pace. The 8 min miles felt tough today...especially mile 5.
45 minutes bouldering at PG Belmont rating 10 (I sucked!)
90 minutes Yoga class. Was awesome... nice and relaxing, just what my legs and I needed!
Sunday:
I was way to tired to get out of bed for a long (8 mile) run this morning, so I decided to switch Monday and Sunday on the training schedule, and cross trained by hiking up Mission Peak .
Monday:
'Long Run' of 8 miles: Figure 8 consisting of "The Dish" and "Campus Loop" starting from the driving range.
Tuesday:
3 miles on the treadmill at PG B.
Climbing at PG with Daniela. I haven't climbed in a while, and haven't lead in even longer. So I was overgripping a lot. After about 5 leads my forearms were shot... Added a couple of topropes at the end.
Wednesday:
5 mile run around campus.
Thursday:
Climbing at PG Belmont with Ben. Forearms still toast... some toproping on the harder side.
Although the running schedule asked for 3 miles today, I did not run and decided to do Saturday's 5 mile pace run on Friday, due to exciting weekend plans.
Friday:
5 miles at race pace. This time it felt way better than previous Saturday...
Mileage this week: 26 miles (Sat. - Fri.)
Signed up for the 'Juna Run' in Palo Alto on Feb 28. Should be a nice fast 5 miler!
Saturday:
5 miles running on the SCT at race pace. The 8 min miles felt tough today...especially mile 5.
45 minutes bouldering at PG Belmont rating 10 (I sucked!)
90 minutes Yoga class. Was awesome... nice and relaxing, just what my legs and I needed!
Sunday:
I was way to tired to get out of bed for a long (8 mile) run this morning, so I decided to switch Monday and Sunday on the training schedule, and cross trained by hiking up Mission Peak .
Monday:
'Long Run' of 8 miles: Figure 8 consisting of "The Dish" and "Campus Loop" starting from the driving range.
Tuesday:
3 miles on the treadmill at PG B.
Climbing at PG with Daniela. I haven't climbed in a while, and haven't lead in even longer. So I was overgripping a lot. After about 5 leads my forearms were shot... Added a couple of topropes at the end.
Wednesday:
5 mile run around campus.
Thursday:
Climbing at PG Belmont with Ben. Forearms still toast... some toproping on the harder side.
Although the running schedule asked for 3 miles today, I did not run and decided to do Saturday's 5 mile pace run on Friday, due to exciting weekend plans.
Friday:
5 miles at race pace. This time it felt way better than previous Saturday...
Mileage this week: 26 miles (Sat. - Fri.)
Signed up for the 'Juna Run' in Palo Alto on Feb 28. Should be a nice fast 5 miler!
Friday, January 30, 2009
Trainings notes
For the coming Fridays I'll try to summarize the past weeks activities and workouts. Mostly to keep track of things.
This week stood out a bit, since it was pretty much the first 'regular' week at home since mid-December. So much of it was used to get back into the rythm of daily life.
Despite a cold I managed to go to the gym on Saturday. Did a few climbs -on which I felt very weak, really struggling on a 10c- and 90 minutes of yoga, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I felt the benefits of the core workouts I had done in Germany and New Mexico.
Sunday I did a quick 5.5 mile hike at Wunderlich County Park, which inspired me to watch 'The Fellowship of the Ring'... and that was the rest of the day :-)
Tuesday was the first day of the 18-week marathon training plan. Based on my experience in Las Vegas I decided against going with the Crossfit Endurance plan and for the Inermediate-I Marathon Plan from Hal Hidgeon. Back in Vegas I hit the wall, or better my legs hit the wall, exactly a mile further than my longest run was. I blame to little mileage, hence the plan with a higher mileage. The Intermediate I plan starts with 24 miles/week and peaks at 44 miles/week.
Also I'll run 5 days a week compared to 3 days as I did before Vegas following the RW smartcoach.
Anyway, the first run on Tuesday was a really mellow 3 miles on the SCT. Afterwards I did a short workout on the Rock Rings in the backyard.
Wednesday saw the second run, it called for 5 miles, I did 5.3 on the SCT.
The third run was scheduled for Thursday. I ran the 3 miles on the treadmill at PG Belmont. Something remarkable about this: It was the first run on a treadmill I actually enjoyed! Funny. The second part of the Thursday workout consisted of bouldering. For the first five minutes I stayed on the wall without a break, doing a bunch of consecutive V0's and V1's. Following this I tried to do through problems quickly to work on strength and stamina. The 'Boulder Rating' for the evening was 22 (or 23 don't remember exactly).
Today is a rest day.
The plans for the weekend include a 5 mile run at marathon goal pace on Saturday and a long run of 8 miles on Sunday. The later one will probably be at Rancho San Antonio. I'll also try to get some yoga and climbing in tomorrow afternoon.
Oh, yes, I signed up for the San Diego RnR Marathon in May...
There's also some preliminary talk about a climbing trip to Red Rocks in March.
This week stood out a bit, since it was pretty much the first 'regular' week at home since mid-December. So much of it was used to get back into the rythm of daily life.
Despite a cold I managed to go to the gym on Saturday. Did a few climbs -on which I felt very weak, really struggling on a 10c- and 90 minutes of yoga, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I felt the benefits of the core workouts I had done in Germany and New Mexico.
Sunday I did a quick 5.5 mile hike at Wunderlich County Park, which inspired me to watch 'The Fellowship of the Ring'... and that was the rest of the day :-)
Tuesday was the first day of the 18-week marathon training plan. Based on my experience in Las Vegas I decided against going with the Crossfit Endurance plan and for the Inermediate-I Marathon Plan from Hal Hidgeon. Back in Vegas I hit the wall, or better my legs hit the wall, exactly a mile further than my longest run was. I blame to little mileage, hence the plan with a higher mileage. The Intermediate I plan starts with 24 miles/week and peaks at 44 miles/week.
Also I'll run 5 days a week compared to 3 days as I did before Vegas following the RW smartcoach.
Anyway, the first run on Tuesday was a really mellow 3 miles on the SCT. Afterwards I did a short workout on the Rock Rings in the backyard.
Wednesday saw the second run, it called for 5 miles, I did 5.3 on the SCT.
The third run was scheduled for Thursday. I ran the 3 miles on the treadmill at PG Belmont. Something remarkable about this: It was the first run on a treadmill I actually enjoyed! Funny. The second part of the Thursday workout consisted of bouldering. For the first five minutes I stayed on the wall without a break, doing a bunch of consecutive V0's and V1's. Following this I tried to do through problems quickly to work on strength and stamina. The 'Boulder Rating' for the evening was 22 (or 23 don't remember exactly).
Today is a rest day.
The plans for the weekend include a 5 mile run at marathon goal pace on Saturday and a long run of 8 miles on Sunday. The later one will probably be at Rancho San Antonio. I'll also try to get some yoga and climbing in tomorrow afternoon.
Oh, yes, I signed up for the San Diego RnR Marathon in May...
There's also some preliminary talk about a climbing trip to Red Rocks in March.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Bouldering
Tonight I went bouldering at PG for an hour.
In an earlier post I mentioned that my power endurance is not the best at the moment. This was confirmed tonight. I played the "pick a number" game again. You pick a number and add the V-grades until the sum equals the chosen number... I picked 20... Not too bad... I thought. It seems though that the ratings on the bouldering problems in Belmont became harder. I was not able to finish a V3. So I ended up doing 4 V2 and 12 V1 problems. My arms were toast! I hope that repeating this for a few weeks will get me back on track soon.
In an earlier post I mentioned that my power endurance is not the best at the moment. This was confirmed tonight. I played the "pick a number" game again. You pick a number and add the V-grades until the sum equals the chosen number... I picked 20... Not too bad... I thought. It seems though that the ratings on the bouldering problems in Belmont became harder. I was not able to finish a V3. So I ended up doing 4 V2 and 12 V1 problems. My arms were toast! I hope that repeating this for a few weeks will get me back on track soon.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Stinson Beach Photos
Here are some photos of the bouldering trip up to Stinson Beach:
Again, it was an amazing day!
Again, it was an amazing day!
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Stinson Beach Bouldering
There's a new mark on the map with my favorite spots: Stinson Beach.
Originally had planned to go to Yosemite this weekend to climb the Dana Couloir and Regular on Fairview, but several circumstances, like a huge fire in Merced Canyon, and the upcoming trip to New Mexico kept me from going. Instead I followed up on something I had been wanting to do for quite some time - bouldering outside.
I had seen some photos of boulders along the Northern California Coast (around Humbolt County), which triggered the idea of bouldering at the beach. The closest spot to the South Bay to do so is Stinson Beach (or perhaps Mickey's Beach, but there's no big difference).
The tide table showed low tide for 6:30 PM, so Dan and I headed up there in the afternoon. Traffic through the city was pretty bad - it took us a full two hours to get there (it's a 60 mile drive). It was worth every second though! The last nine miles along the coast are just amazing! the views from the winding road out to the ocean and down to the coastline were payback for time spent in the stop-and-go traffic. The weather was also perfect. We were a little worried before, since the temps in the city were in the 50's during the last week, but yesterday it was just perfect... Hitting the beach it felt more like Southern California than Marin county!
The boulders are on the southe end of the beach, and although the main stretch was pretty packed there were just a few people hanging out back there. We climbed on the "Old Woman" and "Old Man" boulders, starting out with the V0 arrete followed by some V1-V2's on the Old Woman, and some tries on the V4 arrete on the Old Man. I actually got the start of that one! There were a bunch of other lines we did, but we essentially made them up as we went along.
Bouldering is pretty different to 'real climbing' in that respect...It's not for the gratification to get on top of something, it really is more about finding a way together some moves, and a problem might end half way up the rock... It was fun though!
After wrecking our fingers for about two and a half hours we took a walk along the beach before heading back to the car. On the way we decided to have dinner at the Park Cafe. Their Menu says: "Park Cafe - Eat Well, Be Happy!" It definitely worked for me...This day definitley reminded me of a day I spent surfing almost three years ago: Back then I thought: "This can't be real...Something like this only happens on TV!" The exact same feeling returned yesterday...
A perfect beach, absolutely blue sky, nice rock, good food in the evening... Too Good to be true!
I'll definitely be back!
Photos will follow...
Originally had planned to go to Yosemite this weekend to climb the Dana Couloir and Regular on Fairview, but several circumstances, like a huge fire in Merced Canyon, and the upcoming trip to New Mexico kept me from going. Instead I followed up on something I had been wanting to do for quite some time - bouldering outside.
I had seen some photos of boulders along the Northern California Coast (around Humbolt County), which triggered the idea of bouldering at the beach. The closest spot to the South Bay to do so is Stinson Beach (or perhaps Mickey's Beach, but there's no big difference).
The tide table showed low tide for 6:30 PM, so Dan and I headed up there in the afternoon. Traffic through the city was pretty bad - it took us a full two hours to get there (it's a 60 mile drive). It was worth every second though! The last nine miles along the coast are just amazing! the views from the winding road out to the ocean and down to the coastline were payback for time spent in the stop-and-go traffic. The weather was also perfect. We were a little worried before, since the temps in the city were in the 50's during the last week, but yesterday it was just perfect... Hitting the beach it felt more like Southern California than Marin county!
The boulders are on the southe end of the beach, and although the main stretch was pretty packed there were just a few people hanging out back there. We climbed on the "Old Woman" and "Old Man" boulders, starting out with the V0 arrete followed by some V1-V2's on the Old Woman, and some tries on the V4 arrete on the Old Man. I actually got the start of that one! There were a bunch of other lines we did, but we essentially made them up as we went along.
Bouldering is pretty different to 'real climbing' in that respect...It's not for the gratification to get on top of something, it really is more about finding a way together some moves, and a problem might end half way up the rock... It was fun though!
After wrecking our fingers for about two and a half hours we took a walk along the beach before heading back to the car. On the way we decided to have dinner at the Park Cafe. Their Menu says: "Park Cafe - Eat Well, Be Happy!" It definitely worked for me...This day definitley reminded me of a day I spent surfing almost three years ago: Back then I thought: "This can't be real...Something like this only happens on TV!" The exact same feeling returned yesterday...
A perfect beach, absolutely blue sky, nice rock, good food in the evening... Too Good to be true!
I'll definitely be back!
Photos will follow...
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Brutal!
Just got back from the gym, where I tried two new training methods I found online in one session...
Well, the one was bouldering, which was intended as a warm-up, the other a WOD posted here.
The bouldering followed a point system though. Before the workout one picks a number, say 20, and the climbs as many boulders until the V-ratings add up to the chosen number. So 20 V1's, 10 V2's, 6 V3's and 2 V2's, etc. pretty fun... and a nice way to quantify bouldering, which was always a problem for me... Too bad V0's don't count at all, neither do failed attempts.
It took me the better part of an hour to reach 15. Didn't manage to finish a single V3... Bummer!
The WOD was last week Wednesdays:
Finding the one-rep max for the bench press: 1-1-1-1-1-1-1
followed be three rounds for time of:
Surprisingly that's not too far of my PR from way-back-when (I played football and was a fair bit heavier than I am now (198 vs. 180). So the goal is obvious...press body weight...without bulking up!!!
The three rounds were quite tough! I am glad my new roomie Albert joined me, otherwise I probably wouldn't have finished this one...Time: 21:59.
I hope I am not too sore tomorrow, when I'm meeting Ben for some climbing!
Well, the one was bouldering, which was intended as a warm-up, the other a WOD posted here.
The bouldering followed a point system though. Before the workout one picks a number, say 20, and the climbs as many boulders until the V-ratings add up to the chosen number. So 20 V1's, 10 V2's, 6 V3's and 2 V2's, etc. pretty fun... and a nice way to quantify bouldering, which was always a problem for me... Too bad V0's don't count at all, neither do failed attempts.
It took me the better part of an hour to reach 15. Didn't manage to finish a single V3... Bummer!
The WOD was last week Wednesdays:
Finding the one-rep max for the bench press: 1-1-1-1-1-1-1
followed be three rounds for time of:
- 500m row
- 15 bench press 95#
- 15 pull ups
Surprisingly that's not too far of my PR from way-back-when (I played football and was a fair bit heavier than I am now (198 vs. 180). So the goal is obvious...press body weight...without bulking up!!!
The three rounds were quite tough! I am glad my new roomie Albert joined me, otherwise I probably wouldn't have finished this one...Time: 21:59.
I hope I am not too sore tomorrow, when I'm meeting Ben for some climbing!
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