Had a go on my mate’s bouldering wall he built in his shed today. Haven’t climbed in well over a year now and it shows! Weak AF!
Managed 3 x 10 move circuits on the easy colour before my forearms were totally pumped and not having any more of it. All whilst being heckled by my 5 year old!
I was in just trainers though, and the footholds were tiny. That’s my excuse. Deffo nothing to do with total lack of any technique and strength!
Slept late, got up then slept again until noon, played with the kids and had some lunch, slept again maybe four hours.
I’m calling this training, it’s nothing to do with the three bottles of wine I shared with an old friend last night. It’s all allowing physical adaptations to take effect, honest,
13km, 150m elevation at 4.35 pace. Weirdest thing is hr was 153 average. That is insanely low for me. Potentially the lowest HR figures I can recall.
Heart is responding really quickly to little downhills as well, but then spiking up going up the other side (so not hrm related). Even towards the end of my run it was dropping into the 140s (just) on the downs. I could look through 7 years of data and struggle to see instances of a 140 to even count on one hand.
Either I’m just getting old and heart rate isn’t as high as it used to be - though my max is still up there on my hard runs - or the bike is really helping my aerobic conditioning and transferring very nicely to my running.
I feel like I’m moving well. Feet have strengthened again for tarmac running, as have legs. I’ve averaged less than 30km per week this year of running. Fingers crossed this continues.
Aerobic fitness is there, but speed and speed endurance needs to catch up now. Think I need to start adding in some more threshold stuff like @stenard is doing on his big weekly runs.
10TT tonight… waiting on results, but a pitifully slow 27’s… however, story of the night is near hypothermia. Absolutely frozen to the core in a skinsuit. Haven’t stopped shaking yet, an hour after finishing.
I’ll assume the “shed” had more than 50% open sides to meet the requirements of a place you’re allowed to meet.
After last lockdown, I went with Otter, I am a weak and wimpy climber at the best of times, but I was actually completely petrified of being able to hold the really easy bouldering I was doing, really highlighted the lack of any sort of functional fitness during lockdown, I should’ve actually done stuff - not that I changed in this next lock down of course, just carried on getting weaker.