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!!

The Red in April

went to the red this weekend

the forecast was predicted to be between 50 and 100 percent chance of rain

it didn't stop us from going

we were psyched to go to the red to get that deep pump going

got there thursday night

set up camp, went to sleep and it rained all night long

woke up in the morning and it had stopped but obviously everything was wet

we went to Bob Marley

warmed up on Toker 11a and Crosley 11c

both really awesome routes

we then got on No Redemption 13b

jimmy sent the route on his second try, really awesome rock climb

i came down after trying one of the big moves, just couldn't seem to stick it

next time though

then aj and i got on dogleg 12a

it has two really big moves on it

i figured out how to do them and was psyched to try it again soon

from there we went to 50 words for pump 14c

jimmy tried it and got up to the 4th bolt where he said there was a v10 boulder problem crux

it was really bad conditions to get on it, so he came down after that

we got aj on Tacit 12a, he got really close to flashing it, he fell on the last hard move on the route

we went back to Miguel's after that and got some pizza

that night it stormed even worse and the tent started to leak

it sucked

my sleeping bag got wet

friday we ended up going back to bob marley

warmed up on the same two routes

this time we were join by luke and lee that had driven in the night before

i got back on dogleg along with aj to try and send it

almost did it

from there jimmy got on ultra perm 13c and figured out the beta

he tried it a second time and fell on the last hard move

and on the third attempt he looked really strong on it and sent it

i got on it after him and it was a bad epic

i have some mental problem when it comes to falling into open air

i'm fine when it comes to falling on other things that are more vertical

need to get over it though, i was never this scared of it, don't know what happened

luke, aj and lee all got on Tacit again as well

Luke was the only one to be able to defeat the route

Aj and lee both got really close

I went back and got on dogleg one last time hoping for the best

I stuck the first move and got a small but deep flapper on my left ring finger

and continued to stick the second big move

I was soo psyched, but i had to keep it together for the rest of the route

I am so psyched to have completed that climb!

we headed back to miguel's

packed up camp, ate some food and left to go to the obed

we decided to bail on the red due to the weather!

we'll be back soon enough!

and psyched for it!

Red River Gorge

I took the climbing team to the red this past weekend
It was a really good time
It was the first time 3 of them have rope climbed!
Unfortunately we did not climb the last day due to the frigid temperature and snow
here is a link to the TBA Climbing Team Blog for more information!

Lilly Boulders and OBED

I headed up to the Obed this weekend to meet up with a bunch of "old schoolers"

I drove out there with Aj Friday morning

We got to Lilly boulders where we warmed up on Buddha Belly (still can't do it, haha)

From there we went to Mojo

something I wanted to finish up

I tried the crux move and it felt easy

So i gave it a try from the bottom and fell on the crux move

After a few more tries I sent it!

I was soo psyched

Aj kept trying it, sticking the crux move once...

After he got really tired, we did this fun V4 (Hooker) that started on the same start as Mojo, but went out the edge...

From there we ran into Kelly Brown (the guy that is making the Obed guide book)

He let me know that it will be out for sale in about a month

so psyched to get a copy of it

Aj did Slam Dunk

Everything else was wet, so we went back to camp where we waiting for the others to get here

The next two days were spend rope climbing

I don't have any endurance

Trying to built it up, but still psyched on bouldering...

we'll see what happens

I ended up doing this really fun climb that went through a roof called Mad Cow

Really fun and big moves

Got it second go, really psyched!

Overall it was a great weekend with great friends!