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- run 53:51, 8.96 km
nice and easy, then just over a mile from home kicked up to progressively faster pace, from 4:25 down to ~4:00, for a mile. cooled down for the last couple hundred meters. warm day, not too hot or humid. but running hard still heated me up quite a bit.

yesterday

- climbing x 75 mins
pretty good session. i got the dynamic orange one that i'd been trying for a few sessions. just about committing to the jump and trusting that you're strong enough to catch and hold. also made more progress on the looong black one. i need to work on crimps.

monday

- run 5.6 km

yesterday

- climb x 75 mins
right mid-back felt fine but left was saying hello. got pumped out weirdly quickly, i think i was just tired and maybe underfed.

sick all weekend. sucked. still not feeling quite right.

- climb x 90 mins
we went to a concert last night with a friend who's a more advanced climber and she said that to warm up she likes to just do all the yellows, reds, and greens in a row without resting. tried that today, liked it. good session overall. i watched a guy complete the weird orange one and it really is just a big contorting jump with a swing on the end. my left mid-back (lower trap) is a little sensitive today so i didn't want to do anything too trying like that. but did complete a couple of other oranges, including the one i got a cramp on the other day, so that's cool! also cool that there were a few people all trying to figure it out at once and we worked it out together. fun.

shoulder and now left elbow are not hurt but something is going on in there. gonna take a few days off from climbing.

 

for sure. it felt, on a smaller scale, like the first time i dunked. like a whole-body fist pump. the purple one was intimidating because the final move is to get your body from down and to the left of your right leg, to up and over and slightly to the right of your right leg, with nothing to hold onto between roughly your left hip and the final hold. your right foot is ~2m off the ground to start the move, and the wall is vertical, not a slab. or to put it more simply: you're pretty high up, balanced on one foot with a good bit of your bodyweight below it, and there's nothing to hold onto.

and yeah i see absolutely no reason to get new squat shoes. i've never worn them outdoors, even, the soles have no wear at all.

- warm up

- climb x 45 mins
mostly worked on easier stuff, repeating to make things more fluid, working on twisting to reach rather than keeping my hips square. then went to the overhanging section and did a purple and an orange, got both on first try. overhang is easiest for me since i'm relatively strong, but it's good to work on doing it with as little effort as possible. that'll open up longer routes and routes with harder moves. lastly ended up trying to figure out how to start an orange with some bros who were standing around puzzling on it. we could not figure it out.

- treadmill intervals
-- warm up x 1 mile
-- 3 x 0.5 mile @ 6:27 pace, 0.25 mile @ 9:22 pace
-- cool down
partway through this i had a brainwave about the orange one that i was trying at the end and almost stopped and ran back over to it, lol. it's a new route, so i've got time to come back to it.