(September 21st – 27th: <10 mins read)
TL;DR:
– 🪨 Crack my first-ever 7er (7a) boulder
– 🏃 Sub-30min 5k trail time
– 🤹 Slacklining: juggling at the same time
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Milestones (click to collapse)
| WK49 | Milestone / Significant Event |
|---|---|
| D-1 | 🏃 ‘Hill climbing’ run: 5.5k / 10 circuits – 32:50 / 5:58min/km / 143 avg. pulse 🧗 Day 26: daily PT and slacklining |
| D-2 | 🪨 Day 27: bouldering: – close to cracking a first-ever 7er route 🤹 Slacklining really improving daily 🏃 Got in a 2km easy jog: – at a park bench halfway: leg work! |
| D-3 | 🧗 Day 28: a couple of warm-up routes |
| D-4 | 🧗 Day 29: just a few simple rope routes 🤹 Well over an hour of slacklining |
| D-5 | 🪨 Day 30: PT / bouldering with S and J – cracked my first ever 7er (7a) boulder 🥳 😎 🤹 Juggled 3 balls x 3 on the slackline 😮 |
| D-6 | 🧗 Day 31: climbing-wise just a VI+ route 🤹 Slackline juggling a bit firmer today – a running jump start is mostly doable too 🏃 Another 2km easy jog |
| D-7 | 🧗 Day 32: only climbed a IVer route … – today was about getting K back into lead 🤹 Just a short slackline session today … – tbh feeling a little under the weather 👣 49 weeks / approx 11k steps per day |
< Note: For a list of milestones click <here>.
Real-world exercise (& movement)
My ‘dedication’ (‘obsession’ ?) to daily slacklining gets upped a notch: my initial goal of juggling whilst standing on a slackline is already – at a basic level – done and dusted! This, of course, leads to the search for the next kind of goals …
I struggle with a reliable reverse-walk from the end of the line, regardless of what direction – the much firmer end of the slackline, which I originally assumed would be the easier part of the slackline to stand on (compared to the very movable central part) proves to be the toughest part; similarly, putting both feet on the slackline at the same time is likewise harder than having one foot off the line – using the hips is the obvious next-level thing, but easier said than done.
Turning is also super challenging – basically not doable, if I’m honest.
Walking / Hiking (empty)
This … ‘focussing’ on slacklining is throwing off the concentrated efforts to raise my hiking ‘game’ 🤷.
Running
At least on Monday I stuck to my general plan of 2 ‘proper’ runs per week: upped my ‘hill climb circuits’ to 10 complete ones -> 5.5km … at a sub-30min 5k pace, no less, despite the getting on for 200m ascent, which felt good!
And that was that for this week, other than a couple of easy 2km jogs with the associated short, simple leg units.
Climbing
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