I wonder why I am not having an urge to do squats. I wouldn’t mind working toward a triathlon some day… soon.
The list is beginning to stack up a good bit.
http://soma-hewn.posterous.com/squats-for-life
I don’t take part in new years resolutions for two reasons.
That said, I have accumulated several life goals in the past few months:
The important thing is that I can do this. I’m figuring that single goals often get dropped because they aren’t related to any other goals. So far, my spirituality related efforts seem to help each other. My health (including fitness) goals are also seeming to support each other.
I have never really cared about calorie counting…
until now.
I just came from Chipotle with Foodie. Quite frankly, we love the place. I also had an Izze.
However, I’ve been messing around with the fitbit website for a while and recently bought the device. As a result of the device purchase I have began to make the regular effort to use other services that fitbit provides such as the food and activity logs. I added the Izze and quickly saw that it contributed 120 calories to my total caloric intake for today. I had to add the Chipotle burrito by individual ingredient. I think that I may need to modify my diet just a taste. See Figure 1. Do you see the problem?
Figure 1: Chipotle Veggie Burrito Nutrition Facts
Just in case it escaped you, see figure 2.
Figure 2: Chipotle Veggie Burrito Total Caloric Value
That is more than half of the calories that should be consumed by a lot of people.
Besides that, Heavy D died today, which I learned on the way to get the grub… Celebrities React To Heavy D’s Death
Law enforcement tell TMZ … Heavy D had just returned from shopping and walked up some stairs when he began having trouble breathing.
http://www.tmz.com/2011/11/08/heavy-d-dead/#.TrnViFYu5b0
I don’t know the details of his death but, he wasn’t a small cat. Now I have to dig out some music.
Good day sir.
Heavy D
Beyond briefly following my viewing of Midnight in Paris, I hadn’t considered visiting France for any reason until now. I am scheduled to take a lead class following this semester. I primarily want to do top rope & lead climbing for cross training purposes. I am more of the bouldering type and watching this video just drove that fact home.
Fontainebleau Volume 1 from David Heerema on Vimeo.
Passport? Check!
Seriously, who wants to go?
SIDE NOTE: I really need to work on my theme for this blog WP Blue isn’t doing it for me.
For anyone who is interested, I haven’t posted anything about bouldering for a while due to two reasons. First, my gym has recently updated the cave with new problems and a paint job. All of the old problems are gone, including some that I was actively. Secondly, due to an array of circumstances and university obligations, I’ve been unable to get to the gym as much as I wanted.
I started the new problems from the v0 sets for the sake of completeness. With help, I’ve solved a v3 on what was the A section. I also finished a v2 with a roof on what I believe was the G section. A roof, according to the people who told me is an overhang that at least near parallel to the ground. See the two following videos for examples of an overhang and a roof. The first video shows an overhang that is a part of an arch on an indoor wall. The second video shows an outdoor roof. I finished an indoor roof.
One of my friends sent me a link to a recorded broadcast from Radiolab. The topic is the physical and mental limits of humanity. The show features both people who had direct experiences with these limits as well as scientist with information from their studies on the related limitations.
Earlier during the week Moni and I talked about going climbing together. She hadn’t been before and has a degree of altophobia. She was going through something today and didn’t want to leave the house. I couldn’t settle for that. We arrived at the gym around 9p due to my having gone to see an IMAX movie about the Grand Canyons earlier.
Solved:
Section D (White D8 V0)
All else were repeaters.
Aims:
Master V0 series.
I attempted Black D6 V0 again but, this time I couldn’t solve it. If I do go tomorrow morning, I’ll be on the series until I can do it with little effort. Although I missed D6 this time, I did pull off D8 with coaching. Lots of people there are willing to give assistance. The group that coached me did so before we had introductions. They were attempting the same problem but, haven’t made it yet. I did my first arms only hold on the wall; although it was not intentional, it did help.
I finally caught up with Spike o. I figured that since he’d been trying to get me to climb for a while, I’d see him there eventually.
I attempted D8 V0 again; I couldn’t figure out a solution. I actually reached all but the last two holds. I managed to solve a V1 today at Spike o’s request but, I set up to record it. I know it was in Section C and I believe that it was a black set. I’ll just have to climb it again when I reach V1 by finishing the V0 series.
We went to An Poitin Stil afterwards. I had a portabello “burger” and my new favorite drink, Cranberry and Sprite.
Today was my second day of climbing since I’ve joined the gym. I went yesterday but I stuck to training (situps, pullups on the ETCH Mother Board, pushups and back lifts). Today I solved four problems, all V0. I found five V0 problems, I’ll check for more the next time that I go. I want to knock all of them out before progressing. After I finish the last one, I’ll revisit each of the problems to work on speed. Next I have to work on the V1 problems. Below is my current status in the cave. I did some when I went with Jeff, long ago, but I think those are included. If not, meh.
I’ve been telling people about the gym. I had no idea that so many people would be interested. I only have 2 guess passes for the quarter so someone will have to pay if they want to come. I may have to take wages in to consideration. The rich do not eat for free. I have a few people in mind who would be really into it, I think. Others may just want to check it out. I have until the end of March to decide. If by chance I use both passes before then, I’m sure there will be some way to come up with ~$23.
EXPLANATION: According to my findings the USA uses the Hueco (see wikipedia article) rating system for bouldering problems i.e. V0 refers to the lowest level on the Hueco climbing scale; Heuco tops out at V16. I haven’t figured out the rule set for the rating system; I may have to look it up. A problem is the name of a predetermined route of climbing holds. Each hold in a problem from start to finish is marked by color. Some holds are used in more than one problem and are marked by each problems color. In the following list, and subsequent list unless noted otherwise, Section refers to the portion of the (bouldering) wall that is being climbed; sections start at A and I believe they continue to G. Problems of a given color only appear in each section once. The sections as described are exclusive to my gym though other gyms may use similar distinctions.
Solved:
Section A (Red A8 V0)
Section C (Blue C6 V0)
Section D (Black D6 V0)
Section F (Brown F5 V0)
Aims:
Section D (White D8 V0)
Tips: feet do not always need to be planted (I should have asked the guy who gave me the advice his name (proper credit must be given)) 
The body is sore but, a good sore it is.
Sunday was my first day of climbing since I went with spike_0 a while back. I met a guy named Mike who looks like he has a smaller frame than me but, is significantly more built. This guys hands are huge. I watched him bouldering; he can leap sideways like a monkey.
Now I have a goal in mind. He’s been climbing for ~4 years so, I’m not going to set them that high but, I am going to try his training regimen. He runs (treadmill) before climbing, climbs (bouldering), then uses climbing holds (ETCH Mother Board) and some type of canvas, graduated, upside down, stairs looking set a campus board.
That’s the plan for tonight.
In other news, I called my doctor about my vaccination test results. He said that everything looked okay but, my triglyceride levels are a little high. After doing a bit of research to find out what that was, I can’t wait to climb.
I am now off of work and am headed out.
Laters.