Hello everyone, it's the long weekend so expecting late entries. The weather appears to have been intermittently better so hope people have managed to get outside. If not, keep showing up for when you can.
M - Hip flexibility: prone frog stretch, standing pancake stretch, sumo squats.
T - Hip flexibility. Walked 12km and stood for three hours (Donizzeti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, the archetypal 19th century opera: romantic love versus family obligation, the men are useless or shits, the heroine dies a tragic and unnecessary death in the third act but not before treating us to some transcendentally beautiful music. Katie Mitchell’s feminist staging was thought-provoking, Nadine Sierra was superb in one of the great roles of all opera.)
W - Tired. Hip flexibility as above.
T - Fingerboard pickups, left only, 18mm edge: 41kg x 7s for half crimp, 5s for full crimp. Shoulder and elbow conditioning: handstands, side planks. Hip flexibility as above.
F - Hip flexibility as above. Leg conditioning (box-steps, heel raises, single-leg squats).
S - Fairlop Waters concrete boulders with AJM and miniAJM. The latter has the tenacity and love of refining sequences that suggests he’ll be burning off his dad in the not too distant future! I felt completely out of gas for no apparent reason and barely did anything. Elbow was still sore after a trivial amount of climbing. Hip flexibility as above. Walked 10km.
S - Hip flexibility as above. Walked 8km.
Good to meet up with AJM and M.
A week's rest resulted in a PB in finger strength for the left hand, hopefully a good sign in the long term. The right elbow is now feeling a bit worse if anything, this should encourage me to stick with being moderately active as a strategy. Hampstead mixed pond has reopened at 13C, a bit cold for me right now, but will resume swimming fairly soon which might help. Sitting around at home is not helping my power-weight ratio!
Doesn’t now seem worth going to Scotland this month so I need to rejig my ideas for later in the year.
