Today's Workout Thread

[edhewitt]

I don't even know what friction gears ARE, but I didn't want to admit that to Ed. Actually, I'm pretty sure Ed wears Lycra, so he'd view me as a bit of a dinosaur anyway..

They are the old gears, like you probably had on your first geared bikes well unless you had a sturmey archer 3 speed hub gear, they are really good on a town bike as they are almost no maintenance, and keep the bike lines pretty clean as all you have is a largish rear hub, and a gear cable, and no i dont wear lycra, that would just be disgusting.

[Lynn]

2 weeks into Physical Therapy for a partially torn R. biceps tendon. Who says honing ain't a rough sport!! I'll be back on the elliptical next week........I hope. Looks like very light dumb bell work for a while. I am amazed at the toll repetitive motion can do long term.

Yo

[carlmaloschneider]

2 weeks into Physical Therapy for a partially torn R. biceps tendon. Who says honing ain't a rough sport!! I'll be back on the elliptical next week........I hope. Looks like very light dumb bell work for a while. I am amazed at the toll repetitive motion can do long term.

Yo

Goodness, How'd you tear that?!

[carlmaloschneider]

Today I climbed this...
Haven't been climbing for a couple of weeks due to sore fingers. It's in a nice spot, a place boulderers have named 'Enchanted Forest'. Clearly named after 'Magic Wood' in Switzerland. The spot is in the Kaiser Stuhl national park, which is a very nice spot. Did a lot of walking looking for boulders...

I know it's not high, but the crash pad (mat) seemed very small, and I had no idea what was up to top to hold on to. I found a nice flaky bit but as i grabbed hold it made an ominous cracking noise, being at the point of no return I continued up; knowing it was too late to try and climb down, luckily it held and I found another nice hold further up out of sight to pull me up over the mantle...

[Birnando]

Impressive stuff, Carl!!
I did a semi-long run today.
Just about 17,5 Km or about 11 miles for those so inclined.
No stops and a time of 75 mins. Average puls was 79% of max.
Decent run, but I'll up the pace a tad tomorrow

[carlmaloschneider]

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Thanks Birnando! 17ks is a LONG run!

[Lynn]

Golf swing......Lol. Doc says the repetitive motion over the years is taking its toll.

[edhewitt]

Today I climbed this...
Haven't been climbing for a couple of weeks due to sore fingers. It's in a nice spot, a place boulderers have named 'Enchanted Forest'. Clearly named after 'Magic Wood' in Switzerland. The spot is in the Kaiser Stuhl national park, which is a very nice spot. Did a lot of walking looking for boulders...

I know it's not high, but the crash pad (mat) seemed very small, and I had no idea what was up to top to hold on to. I found a nice flaky bit but as i grabbed hold it made an ominous cracking noise, being at the point of no return I continued up; knowing it was too late to try and climb down, luckily it held and I found another nice hold further up out of sight to pull me up over the mantle...

So you just wander around with a crash mat looking for rocks?

[carlmaloschneider]

So you just wander around with a crash mat looking for rocks?

Well, yeah...

Today I went out again and did the one above, but this time as a 'sit start'. It was pretty cold this morning when I headed out so my fingers were cold, but I did it as a sit start (which is much harder than as a standing start) on the third attempt.

Then I 'wandered around a bit more with my crash pad looking for more rocks' and came across the one below. THIS one was a bugger, it had me swearing with finger tips bleeding through the climbing tape but in the end I sent it.

You can see the white chalk marks where my hand and foot holds were.

[Birnando]

Golf swing......Lol. Doc says the repetitive motion over the years is taking its toll.

Time to switch to links then, Lynn