Climbing Team Trip to the Red

I took 6 of the kids from the climbing team to the red for a week trip

Aj, Anna, Caroline, Andres, Lydia and Chris

It was a great trip

Day 1 (Monday): Chocolate Factory

Day 2 (Tuesday): Military Wall

Day 3 (Wednesday): Drive By / Rest Day

Day 4 (Thursday): Rest Day / Drive By

Day 5 (Friday): Chocolate Factory / Motherlode

Day 6 (Saturday): The Zoo

Day 7 (Sunday): Solar Collector and Gold Coast

Day 8 (Monday): Drove to the Obed and climbed at Tierrany

For more details about the trip check out the TBA Climbing Team Blog!

Teva Mountain Games

This past weekend i went to the Teva Mountain Games
It was a lot of fun
The climbing was really hard and challenging
After qualifiers i made 20th
Which meant that i was going to be climbing in the semi finals

In qualifiers there were 5 problems in a 5 min on 5 min off rotation
They were all challenging, but I feel that i could of made it to the top of two others but due to my inability to read the sequence right away, i was unable to complete them

In semi-finals, I had the same problem with reading sequences... I guess that's what happens when you have not competed in a while
I ended up in 19th after semi-finals

Overall the weekend was a lot of fun. Jimmy came up and watched me compete which was really awesome!

Sunday we went to Daniel and Courtney's wedding reception that was held at Daniel's house
Courtney looked gorgeous, it was a great celebration with great southern food and music to dance to

Now that i'm back in Chatty, i'm psyched to train hard...
which i did

The day i got back i headed up to Foster's with Aj and Chris
We got on a warm up and then i had the boys try Eclipse
After that i went bolt to bolt on Big empty and i'm really psyched to get back to it and try to send it

After our day of climbing at foster's we headed back to the gym to have a crazy hard workout day
I was intense - pretty much we were unable to finish the workout because we just couldn't do anything any more - we had reached failure
More workouts to come!! Get psyched!

The Red with the climbing team

I headed up to the red this past weekend with three of the climbing kids; AJ, Andres and Lydia. It was an awesome trip. We climbed at Drive By, The Motherlode and the Chocolate Factory. I didn’t really get on anything too hard throughout the trip, mostly due to an injured finger that I’m trying to heal up some before this weekend’s competition. I figured that a lot of climbing and getting pumped would be good for it due to all the blood flow into the hands and arms. The two things that I did get on that were harder were Easy Rider (13a) at Drive By and Malice (12c) at the Chocolate Factory. Both of them were really fun and challenging. Unfortunately, I didn’t send either. I only tried each of them one time. I’m hoping to get back on them when we go back for our climbing team week trip! Now I’m headed to Boulder and then on Thursday to Vail for the Teva Mountain Games events and Climbing World Cup. Can’t wait!

In Chicago...

I'm chilling in Chicago for a few days

But i'm still keeping active

Last night i ran on my dad's elliptical machine for 20mins

It was a pretty good work out

Today i biked with my mom, on this bike trail to the Botanical Gardens

We bikes a total of 41 miles at an average speed of 13.4 mph

Pretty psyched on it

I'm down to 144 on average, so i'm psyched with that too

More running tomorrow!

Still Bouldering

We had a cold spell here in Chattanooga

So jimmy, aj and I went out to Dayton to try a few things

I got extremely close to Honey Comb, but didn't try hard enough to keep my feet on, so i fell

I tried it over and over again and kept getting to the same spot

Either a foot would pop or i would forget some beta

To finish off the workout for the day, I ended up doing the top part, the V5 finish

about 5 times

This made my biscep burn because of the constant pulling

It was good though, i'm pretty sure i got it all figured out now

Just waiting for that one cold morning to give it another try

We didn't make it down to Hippie Culture but i'll get on that next time as well

We headed home and finish watching the soccer game. From there we headed to Nine Lives which is on Lookout Mtn. It was fun crimpy problem with the crux at the end.

I've been trying for three days now, yesterday being the fourth

Day 1 - figuring out the beta

Day 2 - it rained the day before and it was still a little wet

Day 3 - it was a bit too hot and my skin was too good

all of these days i was getting to the same hold, the crux move... but just wasn't able to stay on, or would dab on the boulder behind me

Yesterday, I tried it again and twice made it to that move

I got frustrated and told myself, o well... i'll just train on it till Aj is done trying it and we'll come back another day

That try i felt really strong and when i got to the crux i ended up sticking the hold, for a second i freaked out and didn't know what to do, luckily jimmy was there to remind me where to go...

I did the last few moves and topped it out! I was so excited!

Run again tonight

Tonight i ran 1.1 miles

Keeping up the running...

psyched but legs will hurt tomorrow!

Running!

i've decided that to lose some weight and tone up my muscles i need to RUN

so i started yesterday

I ran during the day for 10 minutes

And last night Jimmy and I (and Oreo) went on a jog for 1.8 miles of which we walked and the beginning and at the end for the warm up and cool down

This morning i went out with Oreo for about a 0.8 miles of which i walked for the warm up and cool down as well...

I'm getting started

Not going long distances yet, because i get so tired just after one mile!

So i'm going to start running twice a day, morning and evening/night

Oreo will get the exercise and so will I

and Jimmy when ever he goes with us!

I'm excited!

If you see me ask me about my running, that'll keep me motivated!!