Absolute rollercoaster
Quote from: Yossarian on December 28, 2021, 12:25:16 pmAbsolute rollercoasterNo shit. Glad to hear things are looking up. If you could go on that big wall trip with your son in 2022 and liveblog it via Instagram that would be great.
Arbitrary training goals:- 1.5-x-5 solidly on the campus board, then 1-x-5
- L sit to Tuck Planche on the paralettes as a marker point for having worked on a weakness
- pull-ups 5x5 @95kg, and actually do some stuff on offsets
- some progress on a front lever
Climbing goals:- make use of continued working from home and hopefully greater tolerance of more remote working in future to do some longer hybrid climb/work trips (not ridiculously long, but extending beyond the usual 2 week mark)
- make the June-June 12 months my best period of bouldering yet
- climb route 7c/+ again
- work on my “why haven’t I already” and “harder local things to try” tick lists
- nail at least one of my Portland dws projects, try mark of the beast, and do some more stuff at Swanage and in south Devon.
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1. Pass exams in March and June. (Really a big ask). (6 month stock check after this.)
2. Be strong enough in March to not totally suck when I’m back on rock
3. To that end use habit tracker for consistency with: 1. Restarting finger boarding again after neck/back injury break 2. Strength conditioning stuff 2-3 times a week (because my shoulders aren’t as young as they once were) 3. Running 1-2 times a week - would like to run 5k sub 22 mins this year 4. Yoga 5-6 times a week ~10 mins 5. Core 4 times a week ~ 6 mins 6. Climb indoors if we are ever out of tier 4, but don’t rely on this!
When I can climb again1. Anything 7A+ or higher. 2. Anything 7b+ or higher, hopefully one of Zinc, Road Rage, Tennessee. But anything. 3. Boulder at Portland Bill at least once4. Do any DWS, Lulworth or Portland.5. Hopefully reschedule cancelled 2020 Font trip around autumn and get on Splatch.
Other life goals1. Spend as much free time with baby.2. Cut screen time, start with turning off phone notifications!3. Build a woodie. Exams will probably stop this being first half of year, but would love to do this this year.4. Read more. Bad at making time, so counting podcasts/audiobooks in car etc.5. Meditate 5 mins more days than not (max time I think I could commit to and achieve right now)6. Few mins of French on Babel more days than not.
Fingerboarding consistently Going to define this this time- twice a week Jan/Feb/Nov/Dec & once a week for the rest of the year.
Equal or better all my pre-injury strength PBs
At least 10, ideally 20 routes off my *** Sub-extreme Peak Trad listAt least 1, ideally 5, E1sTry (as in try ground-up- I’ve no plans to start headpointing) some E2s or even E3s
6 month update!ClimbingClimb Mercy Street (8c) at Schleierwasserfall.Didn't really try in the end. Put my clips up early in the year but never went back.Climb another 8b+/c that gets less seepage than Mercy Street if it is a wet spring/autumn.Got close to another 8c (Schwarzer Schwann) but then temps and humidity got high. Battle will recommence in the Autumn.[/color]Do a good alpine route.Not yet.Try a route on the trad route bucket list.I tried If 6 was 9 on top rope briefly as nearly all Birkett's routes are trad list bucket list routes to me. However, I wouldn't class it as a serious attempt with a view to leading it any time soon!Climb somewhere sunny on big holds or tufas if/when we can travel again.No yet.Running/bikingFinish the Eiger Ultra and try and finish around the 18 hour mark.Eiger was cancelled again. However, I am now registered for the Engadin Ultra. My goal time remains the same although I am not as prepared for it as I would like to be.Bob Graham Round.I set off on possibly the worst night in a week of very stable weather and had to quit. Another big run/bike - something like Stubai 7 summits in one push, one of the Hoehenwegs or a big bike ride (maybe through the Dolomites and Slovenia and then back up into Carinthia.Not yet but hopefully in August or September if I get time.Misc/LifeGet my residency permit sorted for Austria so that I don't get "Brexited". I mean, I like fish and sovereignty and all but I am not ready to come back to the UK just yet.All sorted!Improve my German. Maybe some French as well so there are less awkward silences when I get left alone in a room with the girlfriend's dad.Meh! Some organic improvement I guess but no structured learning.Read more - 3 books would be an improvement!Not so far.Get more clients for my Austrian company.This is going really well. Almost too well in the respect that my free time is now squeezed.Try and save some money so I can retire before 80.Yep if highly volatile and speculative investments count as saving. So far so good but that could change!Go fishing more and try and catch a big pike (or any pike) and a fish from the species bucket list (wild brown trout, Barbel, Grayling...). Done a bit more fishing. Caught an unexpected pike whilst fly fishing but tried for Barbel on the Ribble a couple of times but had no joy.Booze less that 2020.Yes but that wasn't hard. Had the best part of 3 months off booze in spring but it has crept back into my life!
…the only ones I didn’t tick were running (it’s simply too high impact for me), 1-4-7 on the big campus rungs (haven’t climbed indoors since before the pandemic so haven’t been near a campus board) and weighted pull-ups