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the shizzle => diet, training and injuries => Topic started by: Andy W on July 16, 2015, 08:29:32 am
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I've just taken down my training boards, had a really great set up, eight miles from home. I'm now contemplating a 50 minute drive to go training. Someone make me feel better and say that's not so bad! :)
Being in the far south west of Cornwall has many good things going for it, training facilities of any kind are not one of them though.
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50 minutes?
that's only like doing the walk in to Ceuse
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Put them back up again you idjit
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I live in the black hole of Taunton so for all climbing and/or training needs I either have to drive to Bristol or Exeter
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Put them back up again you idjit
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+1
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50 minutes is too far.
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45 minutes into birmingham for me. Total ball ache, still manage it 4 times a week usually.
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50 minutes is too far.
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rebuild them closer to home
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I'd give my right testicle (the small one) to have my own training boards.
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Id give both + my weener. Not like I use them
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I'd give my right testicle (the small one) to have my own training boards.
Do you dress to the left Sir?
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Do you have kids? Sell them.
Wife? Sell her.
Reinstate the boards.
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Do you have kids? Sell them.
Wife? Sell her.
Reinstate the boards.
Beat me to that. :2thumbsup:
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Believe me it's not through choice they have had to come down. I've built four set ups before and this time I feel that I've lost the will to find another venue and build again.
It's depressing, I'm mourning :(
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I drive 1 hour to my wall, often with traffic it is 75-90 minutes ::)
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about an hour for me, if you're happy to drive that far crack on, you're not going to get strong sat on your arse watching tv :2thumbsup:
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Why not open a small wall locally. It's not as hard as you think.
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I walk between 4 and 8 seconds to get to the board, depending on which room of my house I leave from.
But I don't fucking complain about it on UKB. Man up.
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FWIW I live well over an hour (given traffic at the times of day I can train) from nearest decent wall. Ive got a trango hangboard and some rings and so just do a Stevie Haston for my training (without the 9as). Im obvs shit, but i can still make micro strength gains like this. At the weekends i obvs try and do a bit on rock or at a climbing wall somewhere.
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I've just taken down my training boards, had a really great set up, eight miles from home. I'm now contemplating a 50 minute drive to go training. Someone make me feel better and say that's not so bad! :)
Being in the far south west of Cornwall has many good things going for it, training facilities of any kind are not one of them though.
bin off the driving; at minimum put a couple of skinny wooden rungs up, get a screw out pull up bar and some rock rings,and a stopwatch.
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Where exactly are you Andy?
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Where exactly are you Andy?
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Marazion, near Penzance. The last set up was a kind of collective and worked fairly well. But the farmer wanted his barn back!
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I'm similar to Nibs 4 to 8 secs depending on whether I get drink bottle as I go through the kitchen on the way to the garage. However I often fail to make the journey and end up in the pub 5 mins.
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Where exactly are you Andy?
Marazion, near Penzance. The last set up was a kind of collective and worked fairly well. But the farmer wanted his barn back!
There must be other farmers round there who'd appreciate a little extra cash for renting a barn.. (unless that actually was the last unconverted barn in Cornwall and the rest are now holiday cottages)
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Re nibs and webbo, I want to see which of us can get to the board first, it's a walk-off
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Now I feel really guilty Andy. I have your old van for easy weekends away, have a 4second walk to the nearest training facility and 5 minute walk to the nearest wall.
Maybe you and the other climbers could buy an old wreck of a bus (if you can't get a barn ), pay the same farmer you used to, to park on a crappy corner of his land (or closer ) and fit it out as an amazing board.
Wine has an amazing effect on me, it's almost like it makes me a genius, only one that's brains have already been eaten by zombies.
You have to do something, otherwise you're just commuting, even if it is to do something you love doing
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Now I feel really guilty Andy. I have your old van for easy weekends away, have a 4second walk to the nearest training facility and 5 minute walk to the nearest wall.
Maybe you and the other climbers could buy an old wreck of a bus (if you can't get a barn ), pay the same farmer you used to, to park on a crappy corner of his land (or closer ) and fit it out as an amazing board.
Wine has an amazing effect on me, it's almost like it makes me a genius, only one that's brains have already been eaten by zombies.
You have to do something, otherwise you're just commuting, even if it is to do something you love doing
Glad the van is still going strong. I'm sure board options will reveal themselves. meanwhile I have just mad the decision to go to Font for two months this autumn, so I don't need a board anyhow. +1 for wine :)
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bin off the driving; at minimum put a couple of skinny wooden rungs up, get a screw out pull up bar and some rock rings,and a stopwatch.
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I took a pull up bar, rock rings and a stopwatch on a month-long work trip to South Sudan - it worked brilliantly alongside trips to the gym, which was also accomodating with me using rock rings on their bar. If it works in Juba, it'll work in Cornwall!
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To be fair that was only for a month and you were somewhere novel. I've done the same in a few different places but it's certainly no substitute for where you live and can consistently train to a better standard. A really good stopgap tho certainly
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I'm happy to say that my boards are going to be reinstated soon, at more or less the old venue. Driving to the one other board in this neck of the woods has been a bit frustrating in the summer traffic, a journey that should take 35-40 mins took me 2 hours on Wednesday >:(