I got my new fins this week. They’re rad. So, I took them to the Coral Casino’s pool for a little test drive. 50 meters underwater is no thing for these fins. Easiest underwater lengths I’ve done. What I ended up getting was C4 81 VGRs. The Italians were in no rush to ship them.… Continue reading rad fins
Month: November 2008
Halloween in Joshua Tree
How appropriate. Halloween and death slabs are a match made in Hell. Yeah, there’s plenty of trick-or-treating in Joshua Tree, stacks of routes to trick you in to running them out until you’re treated to a near death experience. It’s growing on me. I got on this 12d, La Cholla, and had seriously a bunch… Continue reading Halloween in Joshua Tree
rad video of Jordan Buys sending French Duke E9 7a (Font 7c+)
Jordan looks like he peed his pants near the end, which is understandable because I almost peed my pants watching it.to the video: Jordan Buys on French Duke crankenstein.com
first water, not energetic
I must be spent from the last 2 mornings of swimming. Getting out of bed today was easy and everything was coming together for what I expected would be a great session in the pool. Wrong. Energy was low, my left shoulder hurt, and I just could not get things moving. The previous 2 days’… Continue reading first water, not energetic
first water, 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 – puke
This week’s theme is distance. Yesterday, 1000m straight. Today, the dreaded 400/300/200/100 pyramid I “loved” from short course yards. Porting short course workouts over to long course is good, I feel. That is, it’s hard. And hard workouts make for good fitness. Today’s set did not disappoint. It hurt and I’m happy to have finished… Continue reading first water, 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 – puke
first water, one big swim
It’s been kind of a lot of years since I swam 1000m straight. It hasn’t gotten easier.da numbers: 1000m free time: ~18:30 Not super fast. This puts my 100m splits at ~1:51 on average. So, that’s not pathetic, but I’d like to get that under 1:45, which puts total time at 17:30. That shouldn’t be… Continue reading first water, one big swim