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first water, fly baby

I thought I’d do a little butterfly today. da numbers: 300m easy free 3 x 100m fly drills 200m fly kick total distance: 800m crankenstein.com

I did some 200m freestyle today, on the 4:00, trying to find a good pace for my 1000m free on Monday. My last 200 of the set was good. I’m almost at the point where I’ve pushed hard enough to force my body to adapt to the fatigue with a more efficient stroke. Near the… Continue reading first water, 200s galore

first water, finding consistency

There is an art to pacing oneself. My focus in the pool now is to bring my 1000m time under 17:30. That puts my average 100m split at 1:45, a non-trivial time for me at this stage. And this is long course, which is kicking my ass. But that’s good. This is a good opportunity… Continue reading first water, finding consistency

video of Alex Honnold on Gaia E8

Gaia looks hard. And scary. from UKClimbing.com crankenstein.com

first water, over easy

1000m swims are kinda hard for me. They hurt and I didn’t really feel like hurting this morning. So, I did my 1000m at a somewhat pedestrian pace. Or so it felt. In reality, my time was 5 seconds slower than last Monday, and almost 25 seconds faster than the previous Monday. Two weeks ago… Continue reading first water, over easy

video evidence

I got some videos of Andy and Micah sending stuff at Owl Tor last weekend. Footage from these first two is a little shaky because my legs were falling asleep in my harness. And the wind was blowing me around kind of a lot. To get these angles is somewhat involved. Micah redpointing When the… Continue reading video evidence

faces of death

We got some good photos at the Tor last Saturday, with some rad expressions. Andy’s looking like the Lord of the Forest. Andy on Hell of the Upside Down Sinners (5.12b): Me on the long move at the top of Atreyu (5.13b). I didn’t make it this time: Micah topping out the Tor via… Continue reading faces of death

back on familiar ground

Last week I finished Hard Boiled, so this week we returned to Owl Tor. I missed her. She’s even better than I remembered. I spent 3 weeks back at Mr. Lee’s, the last 2 never going to the Tor. But things are back to normal now. I went with Andy and Micah. Phil was dealing… Continue reading back on familiar ground

first water, more fun

Swimming was pretty good today. I concentrated on finding a good rythm in my freestyle. da numbers: 200m easy free 3 x 200m free @ 4:00 coming in between 3:30-3:35 not real fast but smooth and felt manageable 100m easy pull w/ paddles 200m fly kick total distance: 1100m crankenstein.com