The most important part of blogging for me is keeping track of my goals both large and small and providing myself with a means of achieving those things which I want. I started thinking about what I have been doing this year and so I went back to my workout log for the year and my goals that I had and started looking to see if I had accomplished what I started out to do and so that I can track where to go from here.
My general goals were to maintain my weight and get out there and I think I have done those two things and also evolved this into more which is what I consider taking the next step.
So Going back to my logs and counting what I did this year I have counted:
Climbing
- 71 days this year climbing either in a gym (29) or outdoors (42 days)
- 9 new outdoor areas visited that I had never been to before
- 134 pitches roped climbing ,12 lead pitches of Ice, 122 outdoor pitches rock (Lead 73)
- 57 total new bouldering routes with; one V5, ThreeV4, six V3, 8 V2 and the rest lower than that!
- Climbed one featured climb in each of the 10 climbing magazine issues that I received this year.
- I am top roping and getting 5.11c climbs on my first try and leading 10d.
- I am still scared of falling when it is safe to do so and I have trouble pushing myself to failure.
Running
- 10 miles at one go
- 30 miles cumulatively in one week
- got myself down to 7:15 minute miles over a four mile riverside run including sand/snow/or mud
I had thought that I would get more outdoor climbing and pitches in and that is the hardest thing for me to do as of late. There is only a limited amount of time in the day and people that I climb with are not always the all day type. This one is the challenge for the new year because I have to step it up a notch to step the climbing up a notch or the general athleticism to compensate for what is needed. I was challenged this year by a random partner that I met from the neclimbs.com partner forums named Captain Mo who told me that I was not trying hard climbs enough. I still feel like this is true because after less than a month of work I was able to send Hepatitis which is supposed to be a stiff rated 70s problem from one of the local hard men.
2012 Goals
Flash 5.11a on lead
Toprope 5.12d in 5 tries
Redpoint 5.12a in 5 tries (the ultimate first blog goal)
Redpoint 5.11a, b, c, and d.
Get a V6 boulder problem outdoors
Get a V7 Boulder problem (I have my sights on green goddess)
Climb 2 days a week
Run 3 days a week
Yoga 1 day a week
do a 10 mile trail run with at least 4000 feet of vertical gain
do a 14 mile trail run with 6000 feet of vertical gain
run my first 5k race
run a 6:30 mile
Climb at 10 new areas in 2012
