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atchafalaya
Boulder climber
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Dec 29, 2012 - 07:21pm PT
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Cool thread. Motivating.
15 mile run today in the Auburn State Recreation Area. 7 miles on wednesday. 12 last monday...
Training for long runs, and just starting to get the mileage back up after blowing out an ankle (sprain). Weathers perfect in the Canyons! A bunch of ultras scheduled through the end of June (WSER). Hoping for Waldo in Oregon in the fall.
Keep on keepin on...
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Dec 29, 2012 - 07:21pm PT
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I did not blister anything, but have a plantar wart that hurts alot. T3 thyrotoxicosis and associated effects are a much bigger concern to me.
Been keeping up on my invert's with weight vest though.
Photos to follow?
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atchafalaya
Boulder climber
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Dec 29, 2012 - 09:19pm PT
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Sully, you have to do a qualifying run to get into the lottery. 3500 names in the hat, 275 were pulled. I was 244th! Thanks for the congrats!
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jahil
Social climber
London, Paris, WV & CA
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Dec 29, 2012 - 11:01pm PT
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20 inverted sit ups with the anti gravity boots
20 wind shield wipers
20 front levers
4 hours of pulling on plastic.
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Dec 30, 2012 - 12:04am PT
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The hills are getting smaller on the XC trails, fitness may be just around the corner...
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10b4me
Boulder climber
Somewhere on 395
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Yesterday, 3 mile Mtn bike ride, 600' of gain
Today, 10.5 mile Mtn bike ride, 1800' of gain (first 4.25 miles)
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 6, 2013 - 07:40pm PT
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Did a killer six mile trailrun Friday in new five bilalias or whatever they are called and if been doing fifty pull-ups, & invert sit-ups with a 20lb weight best since just before Christmas.
But today when it never got above 12° here in the desert all I managed was a six mile stroll..
So I tallied out the results of last year. it's going to take a while to figure out other categories. But I have numbers for overall miles and total pull-ups
1704.4 miles
7522 total pull-ups
-in 2012
So I guess I'm shooting for something in the range of 2000 miles and ten thousand pull-ups in '13.....
Though climbing will come first and dictate some of that.
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yosemite 5.9
climber
santa cruz
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I completed about three years of regular weight training in my home gym, mostly isolation moves, in November. I had difficulty gaining mass.
So I joined a gym five weeks a go, getting seriously punished by a trainer twice a week, lifting barbells; doing deadlifts, power cleans, squat cleans, front and back squats, push presses (overhead) and various supportive exercises and stretches. Consuming some creatine and lots of protein. Working hard on pullups and pulldowns also.
I gained about eight pounds in the last five weeks. Some of that is probably water weight from the creatine. I am feeling much stronger and reached some new poundages today in the push press, power clean and squat clean. Lifting heavy weights is a lot more fun than I expected. There are a lot of techniques to learn that will take me thousands's of reps to get right. I did at least a couple of hundred of barbell exercises today. No way I could have done that a month ago.
Found a few more tips on the Crossfit website at
http://www.crossfit.com/cf-info/excercise.html
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Maysho
climber
Soda Springs, CA
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Skied a duathlon race today at Tahoe Donner, 5k classic then you pull into a pit stop, switch skis and poles and skate 5k. Did well, in spite of day 2 of a cold...8th overall. Some fast guys were not there, but some were...
Cool photo taken last week in skate race...Castle Peak in the background, this made it into the local paper.
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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Fell off the wagon. Didn't run today. Rode a chairlift all day. A little anaerobic on the hyperventilating part in the trees.......But I did get in an unexpected 5 miles yesterday at the crack of dawn before getting on the plane.
I will use those running shoes a couple fo times while on this ski vacation!!!
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sempervirens
climber
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I've been classic striding a lot lately, 5-8 miles three or four times a week. I feel compelled to tell ya's that today I blew out my SR45 Salomon boot that came with a package I bought used from the Yosemite Mountaineering School, in 1987 for $35, including skis, bindings, boots and poles. Maybe I don't ski well enough to know better but those skis have been great. I'm gonna try to glue up the boot. A new cross country ski package is in my immediate future. Feel free to give suggestions if you're inclined, I'm looking for lightweight touring/track skis. Thanks for the inspiration on this thread.
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atchafalaya
Boulder climber
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saturday, 17 mile run from Drivers flat rd down to ruck a chucky and up past fords bar to peachstone on the middle fork of the american.
6 miles down and back to ruck a chucky today.
perfect temps and really cool down there.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho
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Bitchslapped my Xiums for 2:30 yesterday. Gotta get those puppies back in the hotbox.
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weezy
climber
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skinned about 350 vertical meters for some breakable crust through tight trees.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Jan 11, 2013 - 09:54pm PT
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anyone slackng off?
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Jan 16, 2013 - 09:24am PT
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Bill Rodgers, in 2009, at age 61 ran 4:06 @ Boston. That sub 3 hour @ 70 by Ed Whitlock is looking more and more remarkable.
My story is that I am one of the select few to go from hypo-thydoid to hyper-thyroid (don't ask how, I already tried that), so I am switching from levothyroxine to methimazole (neither banned for competition).
Still grinding the miles out (*slowly).
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Jan 16, 2013 - 11:39am PT
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Wow, I get exhausted just reading what some of you guys are up to.
So one of my New Year's resolutions is simply to do something - anything! - physical ever day. To that end, I have gone running the last ten days in a row. I don't much like running, but I can do it, I'm lucky my ankle didn't get any more buggered. I haven't stepped on the scale, but I can feel my mid-section slimming down, and my speed picking up.
I figure if I can keep this up til spring, it'll put me in unusually decent shape for wall climbing.
Interestingly, I'm 53, but I still feel as though I'm at the top of my game. Not free climbing, of course, but just wall climbing and caving. Aren't you supposed to "slow down a bit" as you get older? Well, I am a lot more careful and don't do stupid things like go flying off of massive jumps on the ski hill, or other things where you could get hurt doing something stupid. But I don't feel as though there's nothing I still can't do, as long as I just keep on keepin' on. Been doing 24 to 35 hour non-stop caving trips all year, that has to help. A different kind of aerobics, that's for sure!
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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Jan 16, 2013 - 02:04pm PT
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I did get in two runs while at Sun Valley. The last day was below zero, so I opted for treadmill work after the plane ride. Ran 15 miles on Sunday. Monday was a rude awakening - back in the gym with the trainer, doing leg work on legs that skied hard for 6 days and had that 15 miler.
The work fitness challenge also started this week. Joined the group run yesterday, and the uphills were absurdly hard on those tired legs. However it was great fun chasing the 20's crowd. Managed to finish in front of the pack despite legs of lead on every hill. Thankfully they only run 4 miles. Never let on how much those legs hated to climb. Added a couple of SLOW miles after the group finished.
It is always easier to move faster when with other people. I just don't move with that same sense of urgency all by myself.
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goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland-GulfBreeze
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Jan 16, 2013 - 03:37pm PT
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Spent about six hours surfing this morning in overhead glassy conditions.
Currently eating hershey's kisses and drinking some cabernet sauvignon for 2nd lunch, burp.
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Jan 16, 2013 - 05:36pm PT
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It has been cold in Colorado and many other places. Kept running in the AM despite temps well below zero. Heck...I used to consider myself an alpinist so this should not be too tough. Suffered a bit the other day at -15. Note to self...temps below 0 = treadmill
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