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.
