Stuffs up and coming

Still getting over being sick and somehow hurting my ankle. Last weekend I headed to Adventure rock with Brian, Diane and Matt. Good time climbing, I FINALLY stuck a boulder problem I have been working on... wait... did I just get excited about an indoor boulder problem? WTF?

Anywho...

March will be busy. Traveling for work and Kristen Spring break. Next weekend i'm heading to the Red River George to climb and have some of that yummy Miguels pizza. The following week i'll be down in Albion and Climbing at Drapers Bluff with some folks.
Two great (Midwestern) climbing crags in 2 weeks! So lucky :)

My Effing ankle needs to fully heal! BAH!

For Jessa:

Ya... it's a been a while. Been busy, basically run, climb repeat. (Throw work in there as well). Down to 212.5 lbs today!

But besides that.... Been sick. Last Friday, I had a fever of 101.9 F. The works, hacking up green shit, joint paint, etc I'm still not fully recovered. To add insult to injury I twisted my ankle last night pretty bad...

So now, my focus is recovery, getting back up to 100% before March. I have two trips planned, one to the Red River Gorge and the other to Southern Illinois.

I'll post more when I'm finally off my meds.

I promise Jessa ;)

End of the plateau...

Many a hands began to scan around for the next plateau
Some say it was Greenland, and some say Mexico
Others decided it was nowhere except for where they stood
But those were all just guesses, wouldn't help you if they could...

Greenland and Mexico sound like lovely places to go, Greenland for climbing and Mexico for climbing and relaxing... however, not what i'm trying to get across. I have be stuck on a plateau for close to 4 months, finally... got below 215 lbs. a great numbers of factors, played in to this. Running around 20-25K a week, lifting 2-3 nights a week and climbing 2-3 days a week.

Most recently I started to take a page from Mark Twight books and a few other folks (friends/partners) on training, which I believe was the "last proverbial straw". Basically... insanity is the key I believe. Take a workout and think... ok... what can I do to make people look at me with a "What the fuck" face. works... seriously...

Weekend: Kicking it up a notch.

Saturday around 7:00 AM with the temperature around -5F (according to the digital readout in my Jeep) and a reported wind chill of -22F, Brian and I went running. The first 5K or so was cold, the numbing kinda cold, the last part of the run. The total run was about 10K, with some laps up and down the sled hill. The amusing part was the frost on me. From the sweet going though the gloves and dry shirt I looked like a snow cone.
After the run I indulged in some yummy blueberry pancakes and spent some time around the house with Kris and the pups followed by an evening of curry... mmm...curry.
Sunday AM was at the climbing gym where I put 20lbs in my summit pack and climbed and traversed. Climbing with 20lbs on your back is something else... something to work on.

Been a while...

Sorry folks it's been a while since I last posted, I have been busy training. Lately it's been how "insane" can I go. 10 - 15K runs though ice and snow sometimes reaching 1-2' drifts, laps up and down snow covered sled hills (usually after or during a 10K) and 5k runs broken with a hour of weights have been the norm. Get pieces of motivation , inspiration and fucking determination from readings and friends have occupied my time. This last weekend 5 miles at an 8:20 pace seemed like nothing. However that was followed by a trip to the climbing gym where I continued the S&M that has become my weekly training. It looks like it's going to get harder and harder. Adding weights while I run and do the incline and running on shitty and shitty ground (to help build core strength) have been a blast. Climbing goals have helped fuel this level of training as well as just self determination to "Party on".

I should add that the Rock & Ice Bloggers brawl ended with me in 6th place, not bad if I do say so myself. Thanks to those that voted!

Year ending...

Well just a couple more days till the end of the year. Over the last few weeks I have had some realizations and set some new goals. My goal to hit 199 by the end of the year, is not going to happen. However new goal... 190 by my Birthday. The last month I have been running and training harder that I have in a long while if ever. Starting to push distances like 10k - 12k and even 14-15k distances with out stopping, and sometimes though fresh snow. Which makes 12k feel like 20k.
Big goals set for '08 some I have mentioned some I will be keeping to myself, for now. Goals at first can seem insane, however the more and more you work towards them, the less and less insane they become.
If I don't get to posting again before the end of the year, Happy everything to everyone.

Yet another day of self-ass-kicking.

I wish I could do this 6 days a week. Today was started by 12K which was done in a fairly respectable time of 1:08ish minutes. After the run, I did remember to hydrate properly. Last time I didn't and I paid for it the next day.
After todays run I met up with folks at VE for a day of indoor climbing. I will admit, I went over my head with three of the leads I did. I tried the arch twice. Which is a horizontal climb of abou 5 or 6 bolts and...maybe 30 feet. I fell going for the third clip. I'm planning to give it another go next time i'm there. The other over my head climb was a 9+ my ass is all I have to say, about 4 over hangs, no feet holds. While getting over the last over hanging. I was about 4 feet above the last bolt going to clip the next one, left hand gave out and ended up falling about 15-20 feet. So after about 3 hours at the gym we headed home in the lovely snow/ice/rain mix.

And tomorrow...more ass kicking